# The Special menu

Figure 1: FontWriter Special menu.

The Special menu lets you perform some actions on all characters in the font.

Table 1 lists all Special menu commands.

    Table 1:  FontWriter Special Menu commands.
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    Command     |Description
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    Set Spacing |Changes spacing between characters and
    and Leading |between lines (leading). In the dialog that
                |appears type in the number of pixels you
                |want between characters (Character Spacing)
                |or between lines (Character Leading), then
                |choose OK.
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    Load Subset |If your title uses only a small amount of
    File        |text, prepare a file that contains the text
                |and load it using the Load Subset File
                |command. FontWriter sets the character
                |width for all characters not used in the
                |subset file to zero so those characters
                |will not be saved when you save the 3DO
                |font. Make individual characters available
                |again by using the character-width hook, or
                |make all characters available with the
                |Recalculate Widths command. Change the
                |subset file and apply Load Subset File
                |again. The 3DO FontWriter recomputes the
                |subset. This command lets you create a font
                |with only the characters your title needs,
                |effectively reducing the size of the font
                |file.
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    Recalculate |Recomputes the character width so that all
    Widths      |parts of each character become visible. A
                |dialog asks if you want to recalculate the
                |entire character set, or the current
                |characters. Choose Current Characters if
                |you're working with a subset font and have
                |edited some of the visible characters to
                |make all edits visible for just the visible
                |characters. Choose Entire Character Set if
                |you're working with a subset font but want
                |to return to the font using all characters.
                |
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    Get Font    |Displays style and size information about
    Info        |the font.
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