Re: [Fontforge-users] curve & point editing question

[Barry S. <che...@ch...>]

Richard Gitschlag <str...@ho...> skribis:

> This is a difference of personal experience then -- Inkscape's Node
> tool is quite powerful once you learn how to use all its keyboard
> shortcuts.  Adding/removing points or control handles, for example,
> can all be accomplished using various modifier+clicks.

Modifiers are very difficult for me on account of chronic hand
pain. FF has undocumented (because potentially very confusing)
features just for me, that let me avoid using modifier keys very much,
at least with hotkeys. Frequent clicking also is a problem.

> For me, I generally limit my FF node editing to minor tweaks
> (adjusting extrema, etc.) for two reasons;  One of them being that
> I'm more fluent in Inkscape, and the other being that FF tends to
> crash on me more frequently during click-and-drag operations than
> anything else.

I mostly use the Point Info menu to adjust points. It doesn’t work
well for off-curve points, however, but those are less sensitive to
movement.

I'm moving towards using "Hobby splines" now, except in OCaml rather
than Metafont/MetaPost/Asymptote. Maybe one day some graphical tools
other than limited integration with FontForge; they would have to be
of a kind that generates skeleton code, though, because I want my
future fonts to be parameterized like Computer Modern.