I’m currently adjusting the spacing of a new typeface, and during the process I noticed that many glyphs have the Sync Metrics lock (LSB/RSB lock icon) open.
Because I’m testing different letter combinations, I constantly need to close those locks manually, glyph by glyph, to keep left and right sidebearings synced while spacing. This becomes quite slow and repetitive when working across many glyphs.
My question is:Is there any way to close (enable) Sync Metrics for multiple glyphs at once?
Either via a script, a command, or any built-in feature I might be missing?
I’m not referring to Metrics Keys (= / ==), only to the Sync Metrics lock icon itself.
While kerning, I noticed that many glyphs have the Sync Metrics (LSB/RSB) lock open. For some tests I want LSB and RSB to stay linked, so I have to manually close the lock for each glyph involved, which gets slow.
The lock symbol is misleading, and it has occasionally caused confusion in my discussions about kerning with others. The thing is, there doesn’t seem to be an obviously better symbol that should be used.
There is nothing “locked” about the pairs that are shown with a locked icon in Glyphs. It simply tells you whether you are editing a group-group pair, or a glyph-glyph pair, or a group-glyph pair.
In the UI, you lock a side of a glyph, not a pair. I think it is fair to say that the right or left side of the glyph is locked to the group. You unlock it to release it from the constrains of the group kerning. If you can come up with a better metaphor, I’m all ears.
