Okay, I appear to have solved my own problem. After I selected all the lines, I went to Path -----> Combine. Works well!

Hi, I'm fairly new to Inkscape. I was recently following a tutorial on how to create a font using Inkscape. I just have one problem...the software doesn't seem to recognize anything that has more than one pen stroke. When I draw a line, and assign it to a glyph, and hit the 'Get curves from selectio...