Hot Keys

## Menu Hot Keys

Ctl-A | Select All | Ctl-Shft-A | Build Accented Glyph | Alt-Ctl-A | Select All Points
Ctl-B | Regenerate Bitmaps | Ctl-Shft-B | Bitmaps Available
Ctl-C | Copy | Ctl-Shft-C | Copy Fg to Bg | Alt-Ctl-C | Copy Lookup Data
Ctl-D | Show/Hide Points | Ctl-Shft-D | Correct Direction
Ctl-E | Find Problems | Ctl-Shft-E | Expand Stroke |  |  |
Ctl-F | Fit in Window | Ctl-Shft-F | Font Info | Alt-Ctl-F | Find / Replace | Alt-Ctl-Shft-F | Replace With Reference
Ctl-G | Copy Reference | Ctl-Shft-G | Generate Fonts | Alt-Ctl-G | Generate Mac Family |
Ctl-H | Open Outline | Ctl-Shft-H | AutoHint | Alt-Ctl-H | Review Hints
Ctl-I | Get Info | Ctl-Shft-I | Import | Alt-Ctl-Shft-I | Glyph Info | Alt-Ctl-I | Show Dependencies...
Ctl-J | Open Bitmap | Ctl-Shft-J | Join
Ctl-K | Open Metrics | Ctl-Shft-K | Auto Kern | Alt-Ctl-Shft-K | Merge Feature Info
Ctl-L | Set LBearing | Ctl-Shft-L | Set Width
Ctl-M | Merge Point | Ctl-Shft-M | Simplify | Alt-Ctl-M | Elide Point | Alt-Ctl-Shft-M | Simplify More
Ctl-N | New | Ctl-Shft-N |
Ctl-O | Open | Ctl-Shft-O | Remove Overlap
Ctl-P | Print | Ctl-Shft-P |  | Alt-Ctl-P | Display
Ctl-Q | Quit | Ctl-Shft-Q | Close
Ctl-R | Set RBearing | Ctl-Shft-R | Revert File | Ctl-Alt-R | Revert Glyph |  |
Ctl-S | Save | Ctl-Shft-S | Save As
Ctl-T | AutoInstr | Ctl-Shft-T | AutoTrace
Ctl-U | Unlink Reference | Ctl-Shft-U |  |
Ctl-V | Paste | Ctl-Shft-V | Paste Into
Ctl-W | Copy Width | Ctl-Shft-W | Auto Width
Ctl-X | Cut | Ctl-Shft-X | Add Extrema
Ctl-Y | Redo | Ctl-Shft-Y |
Ctl-Z | Undo | Ctl-Shft-Z |
Ctl-\ | Transform
|  | Ctl-Shft-_ | Round to Int
Ctl-1 | Make First | Ctl-Shft-! |  | Alt-Ctl-1 | Invokes user script
Ctl-2 | 24 pixel outline Curve Point | Ctl-Shft-@ | Average Points | Alt-Ctl-2 | Invokes user script
Ctl-3 | 36 pixel outline Corner Point | Ctl-Shft-# | Space Points | Alt-Ctl-3 | Invokes user script ...
Ctl-4 | 48 pixel outline Tangent Point
Ctl-5 | Anti-Alias | Ctl-Shft-% | 32x8 cell window |
Ctl-6 | Fit To Em | Ctl-Shft-^ | 16x4 cell window
Ctl-7 | 72 pixel outline
Ctl-8 |  | Ctl-Shft-* | 8x2 cell window
Ctl-9 | 96 pixel outline
Ctl-0 | Add Anchor Point...
Ctl-] | Next Glyph | Ctl-Shft-} | Next Point |
Ctl-[ | Prev Glyph | Ctl-Shft-{ | Prev Point
Ctl-. | Execute Script Select First Point | Ctl-Shft-> | Goto | Alt-Ctl-. | First Point, Next Contour
Ctl-, | Select Point At | Ctl-Shft-< | Find In Font View | Alt-Ctl-, | Points on Selected Contours
Escape | Deselect All | Ctl-Escape | Invert Selection
Backspace | Clear
Delete | Clear
Ctl-= | Grid Fit Anti Alias | Ctl-Shft-+ | Bigger Pixel Size Bigger Point Size | Alt-Ctl-Shift-+ | Zoom In
Ctl-- | Smaller Pixel Size Smaller Point Size |  |  | Alt-Ctl-- | Zoom Out
Help | Help
F1 | Help | Index
F2 |  |  |  |
F3 |
F4 |
F5 |
F6 |
F7 |
F8 |  |  |
F9 |
F10 |

Hot Keys are now configurable through a gettext based mechanism.

## Different Keyboards

The above descriptions assume you are using a keyboard for an IBM pc or compatible. But different keyboard vendors label their keys differently and different versions of X may map them differently.

I am aware of the following significant differences:

- On Mac OS/X the Option key is equivalent to the Alt modifier key
- On Suse PPC linux, the Command key is equivalent to the Alt modifier key
  (And the Option key acts as a compose key in the same way it does on the Mac when not using X)
- On Suns the meta (diamond) key is equivalent to the Alt modifier key.

FontForge will attempt to guess what keyboard you are using and produce menus with hot-key indicators that match the host machine. If you are displaying on a different machine from the one you are running on the menu names may be wrong. You can fix this up with the keyboard resource, or the -keyboard command line argument.

## Tool modifiers in the Outline Glyph Window

Tool | Modifier | Result | Tool | Modifier | Result
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
pointer | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert or italic angle/45° | Magnify |
Shift
Alt
When dragging a magnification area, make it square
minify
Alt | Select control points before normal points
Shift-Alt | Constrain control point motion to original angle from point
freehand | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert/45° | scroll | Shift | Constrain scroll either in single direction or by same amount in both directions
add curve | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert/45° from last point | add corner | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert/45° from last point
add tangent | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert/45° from last point | pen | Shift | Constrain points h/v/45 from last point Constrain control points h/v/45 from point
knife | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert/45° | ruler | Shift | Constrain measurement to one direction
|  | Alt | Give current position more accurately
scale | Shift | Constrain either to scale along x or y axis or scale both axes the same | flip |  |
rotate | Shift | Constrain rotation to a multiple of 45° | skew |  |
3d rotate |  |  | perspective |  |
rect/elipse | Shft | square/circle | polygon/star | Shift | Constrains so that one of the vertices is horizontal/vertical/45°

## Modifer keys for arrow keys in the Outline Glyph Window

Control - or - CapsLock | Makes the arrow keys scroll
Alt | Makes the arrow keys move by ten times as much as they would otherwise

## The menus

- File
- Edit
- Point
- Element
- Hints
- View
- Metrics
- CID
- MM
- Window
- Help
- Hot Keys

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