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Working with the Glyph Palette


The Glyph Palette is a window showing every glyph in the font. It is used throughout TrueEdit and is at the heart of most graphical table editing operations.
The Glyph Palette is not the same as the glyph table ('glyf'). Although TrueEdit lets you open and view the 'glyf' table, you cannot edit it.

Opening the Glyph Palette

To open the Glyph Palette, choose Glyph Palette from the Edit menu, or press Command-L.

The Glyph Palette appears. The glyphs are arranged in a grid. Each box shows a single glyph, the glyph number, and the font's baseline for reference. Use the scrollbar on the right side of the window to move through the glyphs.

You can use the Sizes menu to change the size of the glyph images shown in the Glyph Palette.

It is often useful to set up the Glyph Palette so you have quick access to a lot of glyphs. To do this, make the display size as small as possible while still showing distinct images. Move the Glyph Palette to one side of the screen. Resize the palette to fill that side of the screen.

Using the Glyph Palette with table editors

Many table editors in TrueEdit let you use the Glyph Palette to add, replace, or find entries in the table. Once you have selected the glyphs in question, you simply drag them to the editor window. You can click or drag to select any combination of glyphs in the Glyph Palette. Hold down Shift as you click or drag to extend the selection.

To use the Glyph Palette to enter glyphs into an editor window:

Select the glyphs in the Glyph Palette.

Release the mouse button when the selection is complete.

Position the pointer over any part of the selection and drag the selection...

...to the live area of the editor window.

(A live area is the part of an editor window which can accept input in this fashion from the Glyph Palette. Editor windows typically have one or more live areas.)

This operation can take a little getting used to. The key point is:

If you drag from a selected glyph, you drag the selection; if you drag from an unselected glyph, you just select a new range of glyphs.

Printing the Glyph Palette

To print the Glyph Palette:

  1. If necessary, click in the Glyph Palette to make it the front window.
  2. Choose Print from the File menu, or press Command-P.

A complete Glyph Palette is printed. As on the screen, the glyphs are arranged in a grid, with glyph numbers and the font's baseline for reference. The glyphs are printed at 24 point. The size of the grid is selected to allow all glyphs in the font to fit within the squares.


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