Font Designer: Letter Selection

 

Adds a new letter to the end of the list. Deletes the selected letter. Moves the letter up in the list. Moves the letter down in the list.

 

 

The W column indicates the width of each letter.

Clicking on a letter automatically activates the letter designer.

 

 

Font Designer: Letter Properties

 

 

 

 

Letter	This is a short, preferably single-letter designator for the character. It is used when a lettered band is created.
Name	This is a longer description of the character.
Width	Defines the width of the letter. Changing the number has no effect until the button is pressed.
	Displays or prints the turning sequence for the selected letter.

 

 

Font Designer: Letter Design

 

 

The Letter Design is almost the same as for a standard double-face pattern, the sole difference being that no colours can be selected. See the Double-Face Pattern Designer for details.

 

 

Lettered Bands

 

 

 

Lettered Bands: Font and Letter Selection

 

This panel shows the font used for the band as well as all the letters in the font.

To add a letter to the band, simply double-click on it.

 

	Select the font to use for the band. Changing the font will clear the band, although any pattern generated in the design area will remain.

 

 

Lettered Bands: Band Generator

 

 

	Move the selected letters to the left.
	Move the selected letters to the right.
	Erases the selected letters.
	Clears all letters from the band.
	Generates the double-face pattern for the letters. This will create an image in the Design Area which can then be handled like a standard double-face pattern.
	Saves the band layout to a file. The layout includes all the font details.

 

To select a particular letter, simply click on it - it will be outlined in red. To deselect the letter, click on it again.

 

 

Lettered Bands: Design Area

 

The design area is the same as for a normal double-face pattern, except that no colours or threading can be selected.

 

	Prints the turning sequence to generate the band.
	Saves the design as a standard double-face pattern. When the pattern is loaded, it will appear in the normal double-face editor.

 

 

The Weaving Image

 

This display will appear on several of the design forms, notably the threaded-in pattern designer and the double-faced pattern designer. It shows an approximation of what the actual band will look like once it has been woven. The tool buttons can be used to change the display to show specific features like direction reversal points, twist directions etc.

 

Tool Buttons

 

	Enlarge the image.
	Reduce the image.
	Set the size ratios of warp and pick - see below for more details.
	Toggle between horizontal and vertical orientation.
	Toggle display between the 'real' image and a block image. The twining direction in each cell can only be shown on a block image.
	Show the twining direction. This option is only available if the image is shown in 'block' format.
	Show or hide the grid.
	Mark direction reversal points. This marks the display with a red dot (as in the example at top right) wherever a change from forwards to backwards turning or vice versa occurs.
	Show text tags. This option is best used if the image is fairly large (otherwise the text is too small to read) and the actual colours are not shown. The tags represent the hole whose thread is uppermost in each cell.
	Mark twisting points. This marks the display with a white dot wherever a card was twisted before it was turned.
	Show or hide colours. This can be used to remove the actual warp colours from the display so that special features (egg twining directions etc) can be seen better.
	Save the image exactly as it appear on the screen to a jpeg file.
	Print the image exactly as it appears on the screen.
	Set the grid colour. If the warp uses dark colours, the default dark grey grid colour may not be sufficiently distinguishable.

 

Setting the Size Ratios

 

In GTT, each cord is shown as a series of parallelograms since this is the closest simple representation of the structure of a band. However, the actual appearance of the band will differ depending on the yarn used and on the thickness of the weft. This can be simulated in GTT by setting the size ratios of the display. There are three factors that can be set, as shown in the diagram on the right.

Note that the End Height is counted twice. The numbers represent the ratios between these factors; they can be fractions but should be 1 or greater. Number less than one will give some very strange results!

By default, the Centre Height is set to zero, so that each cell will look something like this:

 

Palettes

 

 

For the sake of convenience only 16 colours are available when designing a pattern; it seems unlikely that a single band will use more colours than that! These colours are arranged in a palette from which the current colour can be selected. GTT automatically creates a default palette with some standard colours, but any number of additional palettes with difference colours can be created.

 

 

Creating Palettes

 

Palettes can be edited or created via the Edit | Palettes menu option.

 

 

Double-clicking on the palette name, or clicking once on a palette and clicking on Edit will show the palette details (see below). To change a particular palette colour, simply double-click on the colour box in the list and choose the new colour.

 

 

Double-click on a colour box to change the colour.

 

 

Using Palettes

 

Both the threaded-in pattern designer and the double-face pattern designer allow you to select colours from a palette associated with the design. A new pattern automatically uses the Default palette, but a different palette can be selected using the palette tool buttons.

 

	Select a new palette. This also allows you to create an entirely new palette.
	Edit the colours of the current palette. The pattern is automatically updated after the colours have been changed.

 

Printing a Pattern

 

 

This display is used for printing the turning sequence for both threaded-in and double-face patterns.

 

 

Card Numbering	This option determines the direction in which cards are numbered when looking at the pack from the woven to the unwoven end of the warp.
First Card	The starting values used for numbering the cards. This can be used if the pattern represents only a section of the band.
Show Individual Cards	Shows or hides the columns for each card. This does not affect the printed information, but does affect the details copied to the clipboard using the Clipboard button.
Print Image	Determines whether the pattern image should be printed. If the box is checked, the image will be printed exactly as it appears in the design form.

 

 

V1.09 New Functionality

 

This option displays a complete list of the position of each card at the start of every pick in the sequence. The topmost holes of each card are shown, together with (optionally) the threading direction. This is the actual direction in which the threads run at that point. This display is intended mainly as a problem-fixing tool to check that the cards have been turned or twisted correctly.

 

 

Appendix A: Basic Tutorials