Could we use {command-greater & and command lesserthan} or any such thing. to move to next and previous glyph visible? Sure would speed up getting around.
In text mode, you can quickly go from one glyph to the following by first moving the cursor in front of it, and then pressing the Home and End keys on your keyboard. On a MacBook keyboard, you can press Fn and the left and right arrow keys to advance or go back through your glyph set
See Edit view | Glyphs for more navigation tips.
The thing I am trying to avoid is any mouse work which makes me move my hands too much. To me what is effective in like a spreadsheet data entry. You just type and tab, then type and tab. I know I can get to the next item your way, but hope this is not the forever way. Would it be that difficult to include a feature like this in a future revision?
You mean you like something you can do with the left hand only?
I have the hand on he arrow keys most of the time and only move to the mouse to select stuff. So Fn+left/right (I only use the compact keyboards) is very easy. But I’ll think about this.
You say “Fn” is that a function key? Which one, there are 15?
It is only on the macBook Style keys. There is on the lower left below the shift key.
On an extended keyboard it is to the left of the Home key.
on my old keyboard, that is the help button, I will try it! Thanks!
I will have a look! Thanks!
That worked on my old clunker noisy keyboard! Thanks to both of you!
Thanks! This was exactly the question I had. I’m happy I may now use the fn + arrow keys to move to the next (or previous) glyph. The next question is, would it be possible to type a key to drive to a glyph? Let’s say you are in the A glyph and you wish to go to the Z glyph. Might one be able to type fn + Z or some such? Cheers!
Type cmd-F to bring up the search dialog, type the glyph name and press enter to jump to the glyph.
Or hit the T-key (to switch to the text tool) type what you need and hit Esc to go back to the edit tool.
That didn’t work… I’m in Glyphs Lite. Hmm.
That brought up a happy way to type n’ test my font, that was nice, but I couldn’t manage to jump to the glyph.
Well, I see now, you can double click on the typed character and work on it. Interesting… I can try to get used to it!
Did you try exactly the options outlined above?
In Text mode (T): Cmd+F, type the name of your glyphs (or the glyph, or its unicode). Hit Enter, it will be inserted into your current text. Then press Escape to go back to the last used tool.
Or just type the glyph you want, and then press Escape. Same thing.
No need to use your mouse to double-click anything. You can navigate everything using T (Text mode), arrow keys for the cursor and Escape to “open” the current glyph.
Esc key in the Text tool is equivalent to a double click.