More little Symbols

Glyphs
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I think there should be more little symbols in font view like the one for non-exporting glyphs. I miss in particular a indicator for glyphs which are manually hinted, and a indicator for glyphs where the auto sidebearings are not updated (red values). You don’t see the values in red in list view, right?

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Wouldn’t it be more useful to have a filter for it?

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Yes, for the hinting a filter would do. But for the not updated metrics I don’t know. It’s an error that can be overseen easily and should be visible at first. Or another solution: red color also in list view!?

(Why are the metrics sometimes not updated anyway?)

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I like the idea of little symbols, though it would be good to be able to disappear them with a shortcut to avoid clutter. Two things that I’d find useful to see at a glance in the font view would be composites (which would allow colours to be used for other meanings) and zero-width glyphs (filtering is good but it means you don’t see the full glyph set in one go of course).

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this in the fontview would be gold!

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The Glyphs way to do this would be a filter option. You should not go hunting for little symbols in font view. The app should list all glyphs that need your attention for you.

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filter would be nice too, but a little indicator, like the master incompatability in the glyph cell corner (maybe top right corner) would be superb

I’d prefer to have both, filter+indicator

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I wonder about this too. Is there a situation in which you’d set sidebearing keys and not want it to automatically keep them updated?

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I’m working in the side bearings to be updated automatically.

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You don’t want them updated while you edit the outlines.

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Or maybe you do.

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Any news on some kind of indicator for deviant metrics?

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I got it to work but breaks the undo for that glyph. And I didn’t found a way around that.

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so then maybe a indicator that clearly shows in font view that the side bearings are not updated yet!?

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I’d also like to have such a indicator. Maybe it could be toggled via the view settings. I’m not sure if I’d want the metrics to update automatically tbh…

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For now I added a generic ‘warning’ icon. This will be triggered by different things in the future.

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I also suggest the warning icon for wrong path direction.

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I have a script mekkablue > Paths > New Tab with Path Problems that also checks for path directions. It only checks the direction of the first path, though. I cannot really make assumptions for subsequent paths, or I haven’t really figured out how yet.

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That’s great news! When will the update go live?

Also very handy script, Thx!