Show Stems Pro Question

#1

Hi Mark,

Thanks for publishing the pro version of Show Stems, I am loving it already.
However there something I don’t get. I can’t get the green label with dimensions to show with the vertical line. See pic.

Thanks
Seb

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#2

Hi @sebsan, thanks for the feedback!
I am not so sure why you expect the green label to pop up, because your lowercase(?) /o has 79 as a value in the dimensions palette, but your measured distance is 76. So as far as i see it, all works as expected. Or do i have a mingled thinking here? :smiley:

#4

Yes @Mark, my bad.
I somehow expected the green label to turn red (or indicate something) when the values didn’t match the dimensions palette.

#5

interesting idea. I’ll think about it. maybe some highlighting when you’re almost at the dimension. Otherwise you’d see red flags everywhere :slight_smile:

#6

@Mark
Yes maybe too much red flags kill the red flags

#7

Related stems issue-
For some reason the blue stem width label is far above the ascender. before I updated the Glyphs 2.5.2 (1161) it was right in place - within the x-height.
One clue that might help - “Show stems” appears twice in the View menu. Any idea?

#8

Take a look in Glyphs > Preferences > Addons > Plugins, it may be installed twice. If so, delete both plug-ins (right-click > Show in Finder, delete them in Finder), and reinstall through Window > Plugin Manager.

#9

Great - got rid of the duplicate. Still, how can i move down the “show stem blue 27label”?

#10

Please read the description for how to move the beams.

#11

Thanks Mark.

#12

@Mark
Hi Mark
I can’t seem to get measurements beyond the cap height with this font file only.
Looked in the font info, nothing unusual there.
Any idea what is going on here?
thanks
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#13

@sebsan Hi, I got an update in the pipeline. It will respect the bounds of the layer content whenever they are bigger than the metrics. Working on that I encountered several obstacles, hence the update still needs a little time to be properly tested before I want to ship it.

#14

Hi @Mark, I just bought your show stem plugin, but I don’t know why I can’t move the vertical beam. Can you help me? Thank you :raised_hands:

#15

hi,
Pressing option or alt near to beam activate the possibilty to drag the beam.
Cheers, Edu

#16

Yeah, I have tried but only affects on a horizontal beam, not the vertical beam.

#17

For vertical beam option+shift

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#18

Thanks!! :sparkles:

#19

Hi @Iqblfrds. Thank you and sorry! I didn’t see it earlier. looks like you got it working now. Otherwise it’s also described here.

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