Help needed:
How do I preview a paragraph in Glyphs? I would also like to reduce text preview size
You mean you like to have multi line text in the preview area?
I usually preview bigger amounts of text in Indesign: http://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/testing-your-fonts-in-adobe-apps
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In the Edit view, just zoom in or out.
As for the Preview area at the bottom, you can resize it by dragging its edge up and down.
About paragraphs: different apps can have very different ways of determining the line heights (and other parameters important for paragraph setting), so it is not a good idea to preview paragraphs in Glyphs in the first place.
Note that you can also control the paragraph width by setting the “Text View Width” in Preferences > User Settings. Maybe that is what Tihana meant?
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Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to adjust Text View Width visually in the window itself, say by dragging the right margin of the “page” in or out?
I try not to add sich features as it adds clutter to the interface and you might accidentally drag it…
I respect those principles. But I do have to say that the non-visual, different-window, unexplained-unit way of choosing Text View Width is one of the less satisfying UI bits of Glyphs.
I deeply agree.
It took me a while to understand why I can't see even Hamburgefonstiv in one line of text. And where to fix it.
I doubled the figure in the field and and it didn’t help much. It would be nice if there was just a simple function that when you input a certain amount of characters the width function increases.
I think setting much larger value as default will stop some of the complaints. 5500 seems too short in most cases.