Ruler's info

[dxps]

Hi Johan!

Many thanks for creating and maintaining this user friendly tool! :pray:

I want to buy the Pro license (to support your work) and extend my preferred monospaced font with some ligatures.

I want to use the ruler to see the current width of the whole character "block". However, I don't see where I can find the width of the ruler.

For now, I created this ligature, but the correct width was done based on a trial-and-error manner.

The result is pretty satisfactory, but feels like simple luck.

[dxps]

And right after submitting this, I found the answer, simply by mistake! :blush:

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By the way, I still believe that a short tutorial about Ruler would help, even that now it looks very simple to use.

Prior to submitting this issue, I searched for a guide/tutorial and in the existing (open or closed) issue, but I couldn't find the answer.

[johanmattssonm]

Thanks. Yes. You should see some measurement if you pass through both the rsb and lsb lines.

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And right after submitting this, I found the answer, simply by mistake! 😊

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By the way, I still believe that a short tutorial about Ruler would help, even that now it looks very simple to use.

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[dxps]

Moving on, I adjusted the width of the ligature as 114 (57+57):

ligature's space width	singular character's space width

As previously pasted, the result seemed fine, but its space width wasn't the right one.

However, now with all set, the new result seems a little bit wider:

Am I missing something?

Thanks again for the feedback! :pray:

[dxps]

My bad! Apparently, x and q options (to use the x axis and snap to guides) weren't both applied. And the width is 55, not 57. Sorry for not using yet the proper terminology. :blush:

the correct space width of the singular character	and now the (correct) result of the ligature's space width

The other lesson learned - thus I really think that a short tutorial on Ruler would help (if you want, I can contribute by writing it) - is that you need to have the whole grid shown, so that "snap to guides" (aka q key) option of the ruler to be effective.

Moving on with the purchase and the journey to add other ligatures. :partying_face:

[johanmattssonm]

Thanks. If you do want to write the tutorial please do so. I will create one if you don't have time for that.