Spacing/Sizing Help Needed

Design
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Hi, I am new to Glyphs App. Some questions:

  1. Can I output the font with Optical Kerning as default instead of Metric Kerning? Is that Possible?

  2. How do I visually adjust the L+R spacing, instead of metrically? In the tutorials it shows an example dragging the guides for V A but I can’t find where to do this in the App?

  3. My caps are outputting quite small, despite being sized to ‘cap height’ guides?

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No, that is a setting in Indesign that can't be controlled from the font. But some people wrote scripts that can import optical kerning from a sample text into the font. But that is not advised as the optical kerning algorithm is context based and thous can produce wrong results. What tutorials do you refers to? That depends how you set the vertical metrics: http://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/vertical-metrics
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Hi (Re Q2) - this tutorial where they are visually adjusting, as opposed to metrically http://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/kerning

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  1. Please read the tutorial more carefully, it is described in detail there: You do it in text mode, with shortcuts.

  2. What matters is the Cap Height in relation to the UPM.