Fontlab - how do you delete a segment between nodes?
I haven’t found an efficient way to delete a single segment between two nodes. Is there a way to do it in one step?
I haven’t found an efficient way to delete a single segment between two nodes. Is there a way to do it in one step?
19.Jul.2007 12.30pm
You can click on the segment between the two points and hit ’delete.’
This leaves the points in tact, while removing the connecting segment. The result is an open contour.
To do this you have to set the preference: Glyph Window < Advanced < Edit/Delete command breaks contour
Hope that’s helpful!
j
19.Jul.2007 12.39pm
The preference settings are very important. I don’t know how other people like to work but I had to change several default settings. The one Jeremy mentions above was one of them.
ChrisL
19.Jul.2007 4.44pm
Perfect! That is going to make my life a lot easier. Thanks very much!
19.Jul.2007 6.59pm
Chris, what other ones have you found it convenient to change?
One I modification I found convenient is to make control-Q the short cut for fitting the glyph in the window.
20.Jul.2007 10.42am
You can also fit the glyph in the window with command-6, or just by typing the hyphen key.
Doesn’t control-Q quit the application?
20.Jul.2007 11.04am
Control-6 goes to 200% zoom, at least on a PC. I don’t think they had a short cut for ’fit’ until I put one, but I may have forgotten, and something less convenient was there. If you go to Help/keyboard short cuts, everything is listed. No, control-Q doesn’t quit in FontLab.
20.Jul.2007 12.16pm
Control zero might do it since Command zero does it on a Mac.
ChrisL
20.Jul.2007 12.36pm
Yes, control-0 does do it on the PC. I don’t know whether that was documented, as a lot of stuff was missed, as discussed in other threads. Being left-handed, I find control-Q more natural, so I may have set it up for that reason; it is more or less a left-handed version of control-0.
20.Jul.2007 1.54pm
Trouble is, that is the quit command for every application on the Mac.
ChrisL
20.Jul.2007 10.52pm
Actually, command-Q is the for quit on the Mac.
21.Jul.2007 7.24am
Yes Steve, but the PC uses the Control key in the same way that Mac uses the Command key so making a cross-platform app consistant would mean Contrl-Q on the PC.
ChrisL
21.Jul.2007 11.03am
True, if you make the adjustments. I was just saying that technically, there’s nothing wrong with Control-Q on the Mac. I would never make the assignment myself, for fear of accidentally hitting Cmd-Q instead.
I had enough problems with an editor that toggled the main document to the front via Cmd-1, which is right in line with Cmd-Q. I can’t tell you how many times I went to bring the master document to the front, and quit the whole project. I did get lots of practice stringing together curse words!
21.Jul.2007 12.08pm
I guess that editor must have been a Control freak—if you were on a Mac, he would have been a Command Freak :-)
ChrisL
21.Jul.2007 2.32pm
Just to make clear, I wasn’t suggesting that anyone adopt the shortcut, which is for my own left-hand PC using self.
It is nice that FontLab enables us to adjust the interface to our own preferences.