Font sampler, centered glyphs

Greetings, FF Devs!

I very much appreciate that FF can export a sampler page of all the glyphs
within a font. I'd like to put in a feature request for this sampler page,
if I may.

Since most of the fonts I work on are for music glyphs and not necessarily
text, and since the music programs that use them require each glyph to be
in relatively specific locations (e.g., some centered on the baseline, some
right at the origin, etc.), this can cause the glyph shapes to collide
between rows on the sampler page.

I'm not sure what the "right" solution is for this, but here's what I would
do:

   1. Provide an option to center (both vertically and/or horizontally)
   each glyph in its "cell" on the sampler page.
   2. Lay out a grid and put the glyph's name/codepoint at the top of the
   cell (kind of like the font view that is already part of the program).

Anyway, this would be wonderful, but I know it can take quite a bit of work
to do this robustly.

Thanks,
Abraham Lee

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