On a Mac keyboard in the character window: grave (next to z)= fill outline black z=enlarge x=decrease.

This would be better in the 'Build' section.

Nick Cooke

Here are mine,

To break a countour, without affecting anything.
Press Ctrl+Alt and hit the node you want to split.
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For temporary Meter tool.
Just hold Ctrl+Alt+Shift
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A quick swap between all the open files.
Ctrl+Tab
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Sigh. All shortcuts should be documented in the manual or in the 'help' section, or both.

One I use constantly is holding down + which changes the tool to a magnifier in the glyph window. Then dragging the mouse, button down, you can zoom in on one part of the character. If you let go of the + first, before the mouse button, the tool goes back to the arrow. If you let up the mouse first, then it stays on magnification. This is not documented anywhere.

Control-0 restores the glyph to 'fit' in the window, when you want to look at the whole glyph.

I thought this thread would be helpful for a FontLab newbie like me. :(

Here are some I use a lot (I use the Mac version, so for Windows opt = alt; command = ctrl):

Double-click on a node to change it from smooth to sharp or sharp to smooth.

Hold down the shift key while moving anything with the arrow keys to move 10 em units at a time (you can change the amount in Preferences). This works in the metrics window, too, with kerning.

Right-click on a "neighbor" to choose a different "neighbor".

Hit the 1, 3, 5, or 6 keys to switch to the arrow, knife, corner point, or curve point tools respectively. (There are others, too, but these I use most often.) Opt-4 selects the measurement tool. (I think I am going to change this.)

Speaking of changing short cuts (which you can easily do)... I often switch to 100% zoom in the glyph window, but I didn't like the short cut (command-5) so I changed it to command-1, which is the same as a lot of other programs I use.

It's been mentioned, but I also really like using the tilde key to get a quick preview of the glyph I'm working on.

Double-clicking on a glyph in the metrics or preview window will open the glyph window for that glyph.

If you've got a lot of windows open, the Fonts palette gives you a handy list of all windows in outline form, and you can jump to a specific window by double-clicking on it in the list.

I think this is Mac-only: In the font window, you can command-click on the the little icon next to the window title to see the path to the current open font file as a pop-up menu. If you select one of the locations in the menu, it will appear in the Finder. (This works with most other programs, too, not just FontLab, but I use it fairly often in FontLab, usually after opening a font from the recent files listed in its File menu.)

I'm on a Mac to...

Ctrl-arrow (in Glyph window with a node selected): selects other node.
Command-arrow (in Glyph window): moves selection 100 em units.
Command (in Glyph window): switches between arrow (selection tool) and previous tool.

Ben Kiel compiled a ton of shortcuts for Fontlab 4.x on the Mac (http://benkiel.com/typeDesign/ at the bottom of the page). Some have changed with FLS 5, but most are still relevant.