Editing Glyph height

Hi all,

I’m quite new to font creation and am mainly using it to get some custom glyphs into a music engraving program. I’ve surprised myself by getting as far as I have on my own but I’ve run into a bit of an issue I can’t seem to find the solution to. (I suspect I don’t have the correct vocabulary to even search for the answer.

I have built a few glyphs that are quite wide and I’ve been able to change the width in Font Creator but the amount of white space above/below them is excesive. It forces line spacing around them to be extra wide and I’d love to avoid that.

Is there a setting to change that? I’m attaching pictures (and have put a border around the glyph in use to show the issue). Even just giving me the proper language to search the user manual would be very much appriciated!

Thanks!

From the Font Menu, open the Font Information dialog. The Y Maximum and Y Minimum values determine the default line-spacing. Double-click to find the glyphs with Max and Min values.

Use the Calculate buttons on the Master tab of the Font Properties dialog to recalculate the metrics, or edit any glyphs that reach the X and Y limits.