User Guide

1. Select four points which define the diagonal stem.
2. Choose “Make Diagonal Hint” from the Hints menu.
Selection Info for hints
Selecting a hint and then choosing “Selection Info” from
the Element menu brings up a dialog box that is somewhat
analogous to the Point Location dialog box. It lets you
traverse through all hints in the character, and modify them.
This dialog box will not win any awards for “Most
Approachable Dialog Box,” but it is quite powerful.
Hint type
Hint type is a pop-up menu showing which kind of hint you
are currently examining. The message to the right, “1 of
2,” means that you are currently looking at the first of two
hints of the indicated type (Vertical stem, in this case). To
look at the other hints, simply choose the hint type you are
interested in from the Hint type pop-up menu.
The area directly under the Hint type pop-up changes
depending upon which kind of hints you are viewing. For
Vertical stems, it lists the x coordinates of the stem (i.e., the
locations of the sides of the stem). These values can be
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