Comments on: New Spacing Control and changes in Keyboard Shortcuts

By: porec

porec — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:23:50 +0000

Ah, finally ! thanks for this info!

By: Suatae

Suatae — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:54:41 +0000

Yay finally! You guys made my day!

By: Rob Meek (meek)

Rob Meek (meek) — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:10:29 +0000

@wolfkrim You certainly haven’t done anything wrong. It’s the half-bricks that are causing the problems. The font generator (FontMortar) isn’t dealing with them properly in relation to the spacing (it assumes all bricks are a whole grid square wide). This is quite a tricky problem and it may take a while to be fixed I’m afraid. In the meantime, setting the global spacing to a positive value (like 0.5) might make the download work better and the preview will probably still look ok.

By: wolfkrim

wolfkrim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:09:33 +0000

Spacing in Texture looks OK in the Preview but is much too tight when you use it. What did I do wrong?

By: leandro

leandro — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:17:07 +0000

I’ve problems with the leading in the window previw . My type fits usually 14×18 squares. Does this problem is my fault?:-(

By: Rob Meek (meek)

Rob Meek (meek) — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:32:23 +0000

ah ok I understand. those half bricks cause a few problems.
i don’t think we’ll allow a letter width that isn’t in whole grid units at the moment, but it’s an idea for the future.

By: kix

kix — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:26:53 +0000

sorry my fault.
what i meant was the possibility to edit something between 0 and -1. the idea is to include the half brick steps in the negative/left direction as well.

if i would have been able to set the spacing on -0.5, i’d have not problem anyway :)

By: Rob Meek (meek)

Rob Meek (meek) — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:51:47 +0000

@kix If I understand you correctly, you’d like the global spacing slider to go to less then -1? Maybe in a future version.
In the meantime, as a (better) alternative to moving your letters to the left, you could set the width of the letters manually as well – you can get more overlap that way. Remember the global spacing value is added to the width of the individual letter. That width is 1 by default, but it can be zero or negative if you set it manually (Advanced -> View -> Letter Width, and then drag the solid green line).
Regarding the line-eraser, yes we have a ticket for exactly that so yes, one day!

By: kix

kix — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:11:09 +0000

thanks for everything.
very smart to set the letter spacing on the grid!
but i think it could be useful to have more space in the “negative” sector.
E.g., i had to shove the whole set of MOSTLY one brick to the left (one brick across the blue line) and set the spacing to -0.5 to get the overlapping effect and make it flow harmonic.
that is btw the reason, why the first glyph, “A”, isn’t completely visible in the preview window :(

Maybe it’s my communicative day, but i got another wish!
So far the eraser is only able to erase in retangles, unless you’re working with the shift button… would be very cheeky to ask for the ability to erase bricks in a diagonal “line”?

By: Rob Meek (meek)

Rob Meek (meek) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:09:11 +0000

That enhancement was added just five minutes ago ;-)
I hadn’t thought about monospaced fonts where characters weren’t flush-left.
Devel42’s problem (above) was to do with this too, so helping him brought about the enhancement.