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The Hints Menu
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This menu is only present in the outline character view and the font view.
In the font view it only contains two entries:
<A HREF="hintsmenu.html#AutoHint">AutoHint</A> and <A HREF="#ClearHints">Clear
Hints</A><BR>
<A HREF="hinting.html">A more detailed description of the hinting UI</A>.
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<UL>
<LI>
<A HREF="#AutoHint">AutoHint</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#MDSubMenu">Minimum Distance</A>
<UL>
<LI>
<A HREF="#ClearMD">Clear All MD</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#SelX">Clear Selected x MD</A>
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<A HREF="#SelY">Clear Selected y MD</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#MDX">Add x MD</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#MDY">Add y MD</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#RX">Round X</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#NRX">No Round X</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#RY">Round Y</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#NRY">No Round Y</A>
</UL>
<LI>
<A HREF="#ClearHints">Clear Hints</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#Clear">Clear HStem</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#ClearV">Clear VStem</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#ClearD">Clear DStem</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#HHint">Add HHint</A>
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<A HREF="#VHint">Add VHint</A>
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<A HREF="#DHint">Add DHint</A>
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<A HREF="#Create">Create HHint</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#CreateV">Create VHint</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="#Review">Review Hints</A>
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<DT>
<A NAME="AutoHint">AutoHint</A>
<DD>
The Auto Hint command causes PfaEdit to throw away any existing hints for
the character and guess an new ones. In the outline view this operates on
the current character, in the font view it operates on all selected characters.
<DT>
<A NAME="ClearHints">Clear Hints</A>
<DD>
Clears all hints in all selected characters.
<DT>
<A NAME="Clear">Clear</A> HStem
<DD>
Removes all Horizontal Stem hints from the current character.
<DT>
<A NAME="ClearV">Clear</A> VStem
<DD>
Removes all Vertical Stem hints.
<DT>
<A NAME="ClearD">Clear</A> DStem
<DD>
Removes all Diagonal Stem hints
<DT>
Add <A NAME="HHint">HHint</A>
<DD>
If there are two points selected (exactly two) and if they have different
y positions, then this will create a Horizontal Stem Hint starting at the
lower one of the two going up to the upper one.
<DT>
Add <A NAME="VHint">VHint</A>
<DD>
If there are two points selected (exactly two) and if they have different
x positions, then this will create a Vertical Stem Hint starting at the leftmost
one of the two going right to the rightmost one.
<DT>
Add <A NAME="DHint">DHint</A>
<DD>
If there are exactly two points selected, and if each is connected to a line,
and the two lines are roughly parallel and not horizontal or vertical, then
this will create a diagonal stem hint.
<DT>
<A NAME="Create">Create</A> HHint
<DD>
Brings up a dialog allowing you to specify exactly where and how wide you
want a Horizontal Stem Hint.
<DT>
<A NAME="CreateV">Create</A> VHint
<DD>
Brings up a dialog allowing you to specify exactly where and how wide you
want a Vertical Stem Hint.
<DT>
<A NAME="Review">Review</A>
Hints<IMG SRC="ReviewHints.png" WIDTH="383" HEIGHT="410" ALIGN="Right">
<DD>
Brings up a dialog allowing you to examine (and modify) all horizontal/vertical
stem hints. The currently active hint is picked out in either dark blue or
dark green.
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The <A NAME="MDSubMenu">Minimum</A> Distance SubMenu
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<DT>
<A NAME="ClearMD">Clear</A> All MD
<DD>
Clears all minimum distance hints and all rounding hints in the character.
<DT>
Clear <A NAME="SelX">Selected</A> x MD
<DD>
Clears all x minimum distance hints for which at least one point is
selected.<BR>
Also all selected points are marked not rounding in the x direction.
<DT>
Clear <A NAME="SelY">Selected</A> y MD
<DD>
Clears all y minimum distance hints for which at least one point is
selected.<BR>
Also all selected points are marked not rounding in the y direction.
<DT>
Add x <A NAME="MDX">MD</A> / Add MD Here to Width
<DD>
If two points are selected creates a minimum distance hint from the first
one to be selected to the second. If one point is selected, creates a minimum
distance hint from that point to the width.<BR>
If you attempt to create two minimum distance hints to the same point in
the same direction, PfaEdit will only create the more restrictive of the
two.
<DT>
Add y <A NAME="MDY">MD</A>
<DD>
If two points are selected creates a minimum distance hint from the first
one to be selected to the second.
<DT>
<A NAME="RX">Round X</A>
<DD>
If checked then all selected points are currently marked to round the x
coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they round the x coordinate to the grid.
<DT>
<A NAME="NRX">No Round X</A>
<DD>
If checked then all selected points are currently marked not to round the
x coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they will not round the x coordinate to the
grid.
<DT>
<A NAME="RY">Round Y</A>
<DD>
If checked then all selected points are currently marked to round the y
coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they round the y coordinate to the grid.
<DT>
<A NAME="NRY">No Round Y</A>
<DD>
If checked then all selected points are currently marked not to round the
y coordinate to the rasterized grid. If you select this entry then all selected
points will be changed so that they will not round the y coordinate to the
grid.
<DT>
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Other menus
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<LI>
<A HREF="filemenu.html">File</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="editmenu.html">Edit</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="pointmenu.html">Point</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="elementmenu.html">Element</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="hintsmenu.html">Hints</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="viewmenu.html">View</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="metricsmenu.html">Metrics</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="cidmenu.html">CID</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="windowmenu.html">Window</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="helpmenu.html">Help</A>
<LI>
<A HREF="HotKeys.html">Hot Keys</A>
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