Editing glyph widths!?

[penguinsdontpurr]

I created a monospaced font from my handwriting (all in caps, due to unfortunate laziness) by turning the bitmaps into paths, and then glyphs in inkscape, then converted the svg font to ttf online. Having opened my new font in Type Light to try and manage the letter-spacing and saved the resulting font, I thought I'd try and improve it further by switiching off monospacing.
I assume the purple and green lines were for adjusting glyph widths, so I moved them so they were (reasonably tightly) on either side of each glyph.
Now I have a weird white overlap on some letter combinations (illustrated - i.imgur.com/y5Z6oYo.png).
Do I also need to move each character so that it's close to where the 0 is on the ruler at the top.

[penguinsdontpurr]

Okay, sorry, I don't know how this works, but I just moved the ampersand to the 0 line (and readjusted the purple/green lines) to test this and bam, whole font fixed. Thanks

[Allan Murray]

If the font is set to monospaced, then glyph widths are not independent - if you change the width on one glyph, you change the width of all glyphs.

To turn monospacing off, select description from the font menu, and uncheck mono spaced. You can now set each glyphs metrics independently.

[penguinsdontpurr]

Cheers