Lock one glyph when using Align toolbar

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outofstepfontco
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Lock one glyph when using Align toolbar

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Hi everyone
I'm trying to align my accents to the center of my lowercase characters, but the lowercase characters keep moving away from the 0 point. This is problematic on a letter like 'i' because the the accent is wider than the character: running a bearing script on all the characters won't put the characters back at 0.

Is there any way to lock a character so that it isn't affected by the Align toolbar?
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Re: Lock one glyph when using Align toolbar

Post by Bhikkhu Pesala »

Complete Composites will do all of the hard work for you, but if you're using the Home Edition that's not an option.

With composite glyphs, you can double-click the base glyph to see it's x-offset after aligning the glyph members to centre, then manually adjust both members by the same amount.
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In this case, after closing the composite glyph properties dialogue, I would select both glyph members, the press the left cursor key seven time, then hold Ctrl and press the right cursor key once.
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Re: Lock one glyph when using Align toolbar

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The only way I've figured out how to do that is if I use Make Simple to enable the Transform panel.

Is there another workflow that doesn't break the Composites link?
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Re: Lock one glyph when using Align toolbar

Post by Erwin Denissen »

Maybe you accidentally set the "Use this glyph's metrics" on the mark glyph instead of the base glyph?
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