Hot Keys are now configurable through a gettext based mechanism.
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:
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.
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pointer | Shift | Constrain horizontal/vert or italic angle/45° | Magnify |
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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 |
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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 |
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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° |
Control |
Makes the arrow keys scroll |
Alt | Makes the arrow keys move by ten times as much as they would otherwise |