# The Metrics Menu

This menu is not present in the Bitmap View, and the Metrics View only contains "Center in Width" and "Thirds in Width".

- Center in Width
- Thirds in Width
- Set Width...
- Set LBearing...
- Set RBearing...
- Auto Width...
- Auto Kern...
- Kern By Classes...
- Remove All Kern Pairs
- VKern By Classes...
- VKern From HKern
- Remove All VKern Pairs
- Set Vertical Advance

Center in Width
  In the Outline and Metrics Views this centers the current character (makes its lbearing be the same as its rbearing) within the current width.

  In the Font View the same thing is done for all selected characters.

Thirds in Width
  This is very like Center in Width above... except that I happen to prefer having a bit more white space after my characters than before them. So this command makes the rbearing twice the lbearing (instead of making them be the same).
Set Width...
  The Set Width command allows you to change the width of the current character (in the outline view) or all selected characters (in the font view). You may either set the width to an absolute value, change the width by adding a constant value to it, or multiply it by a scale factor.
Set LBearing...
  The Set LBearing command is similar to the Set Width command above, the dialog is pretty much the same except that it applies to the left side bearing rather than to the width.
Set RBearing...
  The Set RBearing command is similar to the Set Width command above, the dialog is pretty much the same except that it applies to the right side bearing rather than to the width.
Auto Width...
  This command is only available in the font view. It attempts to guess reasonable values for the widths (more accurately the left and right bearings) of the specified characters.
Auto Kern...
  This command is only available from the font view. It attempts to gues reasonable kerning values between the specified characters.
Kern By Classes...
  This command is only available from the font and metrics views. It provides the user with a dialog to manipulate kerning classes.
Remove All Kern Pairs
  In the font view removes all kern pairs (and kern classes) in the font.
  In the outline character view removes all kern pairs where the current character is the left hand character.
  Not present in the Metrics or Bitmap views.
VKern By Classes...
  This command is only available from the font and metrics views. It provides the user with a dialog to manipulate vertical kerning classes.
VKern From HKern
  This command is only available from the font and metrics views. It removes all current vertical kerning information, then it looks through the font and for each pair of horizontally kerned characters where both have a 'vert' or 'vrt2' feature it produces a vertical kerning pair for the vertical versions of those characters. (That is: If `A`+`V` are horizontally kerned by -50 and `A` => `A.vert` and `V` => `V.vert` then this command will produce a vertical kerning pair between `A.vert` + `V.vert` with a value of -50)
Remove All VKern Pairs
  In the font view removes all vertical kern pairs (and kern classes) in the font.
  In the outline character view removes all kern pairs where the current character is the left hand character.
  Not present in the Metrics or Bitmap views.
Set Vertical Advance...
  If vertical metrics are enabled for the font this will be active in the font and outline character view.
  It behaves exactly like Set Width... except it works on the vertical advance rather than the horizontal advance (width).

## Other menus

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

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