Option key not working

1

It seems to me that the Option Key does not work with my mini-version. I don’t see the alternative menu items by pressing the Option Key.

Is it expected?

In particular this is preventing me to copy a glyph from one font to another font.

Thanks! Ciao!

2

What menu item do you mean?

3

Edit

4

But what item don’t work because of the not working Option key?

5

When I press Option the items don’t change

6

You don’t see the tool icon change in Glyphs Mini.

7

But what item do you expect to change?

8

Okay, thank you!

9

What Georg is referring to:

  • pressing the Opt key does not do any tool switching
  • you can temporarily switch to a different tool with the Cmd key (Edit) or space bar (Hand) or Ctrl-Opt-Cmd (Measure): in Glyphs 3, the temporary tool will be indicated in the tool bar, but not in Mini (I believe this is what you meant?)
  • a tool icon that holds multiple tools, can switch through the tools either by clicking and holding, or by Shift+shortcut key; e.g. Shift-V will switch between Lasso and regular Select tool. In Adobe Illustrator you can switch through a tool stack by Opt-clicking on it (perhaps you meant this?) but not in Glyphs.
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@mekkablue Thanks for your clear answer!

I am totally new to Glyphs so maybe I was doing something wrong.
I just wanted to do a “Paste special” to replace certain glyphs (latin base and latin west Europe). However I copied the glyphs one by one…

Let me say that Glyphs looks fantastic! Loving this app on Mac!

Ciao!