Glyph brwser to small

[GeirSol]

Hi! On my 27"   2560 x 1440 x 60 hertz screen
the glyph-browser is showing so small glyphs that it's most often useless to me.
If I need to find something I'll open Office Writer and copy the glyph from there.

 

[MikeTO]

Even at the largest glyph size? In case you've missed it the panel menu offers five sizes of glyphs and the Largest size is rather large.

[GeirSol]

9 hours ago, MikeTO said:

Even at the largest glyph size? In case you've missed it the panel menu offers five sizes of glyphs and the Largest size is rather large.

Ah. Sorry, that works. It was on smallest (as some sort of default setting).  Medium works fine.
Thanks!

[MikeTO]

@LondonSquirrel I see your point. Affinity is sizing all the glyphs equally in the browser but you're asking for each glyph to be scaled independently to fit into the available space for easier viewing. It's a good idea - I'm not sure that it should be the default but it would be a nice option.

[walt.farrell]

26 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

but you're asking for each glyph to be scaled independently to fit into the available space for easier viewing.

But if that were done, it might be less possible to distinguish a diacritical that is above the letter from one that is below. Both would take the full space, rather than one showing high in the field and one showing low.

[Alfred]

17 minutes ago, LondonSquirrel said:

One more unusual thing (perhaps by design?), on a Mac with a UK keyboard I switch keyboard mappings using ctrl+space. In APub, in a text box the keyboard mapping shows as Persian (for example). I can then type a Persian character in a text box. It's not useful by itself as we all know. But, if I go to the glyph panel to the search box the keyboard mapping changes to UK. So I can't do a search for  َ for example. I have to use the browser which is tedious.

Can’t you use the relevant U+nnnn codes?

 

U+0618

ؘ   ‎

Arabic Small Fatha

 

U+061A

ؚ   ‎

Arabic Small Kasra

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, Alfred said:

Can’t you use the relevant U+nnnn codes?

Or type the character name in the Search box?

[MikeTO]

15 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But if that were done, it might be less possible to distinguish a diacritical that is above the letter from one that is below. Both would take the full space, rather than one showing high in the field and one showing low.

I see your point, too, but I think it could be done. Using the em quad as the bounding box, the glyph could be scaled 50% and its vertical position within the quad adjusted if it fell completely above or completely below the dash line.

If points of the glyph fall on both sides of the dash line the glyph wouldn't be scaled. This means dashes wouldn't be scaled, which would avoid confusion over different forms of dashes.

Unscaled (top) and Scale (bottom) - the two middle glyphs are scaled while the others are not

[Rick G]

2 hours ago, MikeTO said:

@LondonSquirrel I see your point. Affinity is sizing all the glyphs equally in the browser but you're asking for each glyph to be scaled independently to fit into the available space for easier viewing. It's a good idea - I'm not sure that it should be the default but it would be a nice option.

You definitely have the right idea! One possiblefix exists in charmap. It is not an example of how it should be done but magnifying one character at a time would help solve the problem

[GeirSol]

Checking again some other fonts. LondonSquirrel is right, the display size is to small for some glyphs.