On 10/13/13 8:52 AM, stefano franchi wrote:
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ken Springer <snowsh...@q.com
<mailto:snowsh...@q.com>> wrote:
My apologies if anyone is offended by this post, but I don't know
another place to ask.
Back in the 8-bit days, my computer actually came with an ASCII
chart somewhat like this:
http://www.asciitable.com/
Does anyone know where a similar, but simple, chart can be found for
modern systems and fonts? My Google-type searches (I avoid Google,
personally) have yielded more sophisticated and complex charts, but
that's not a good starting place for me. (At least, I'm smart
enough to know *that*! LOL)
A part of this is to see if my word processor's autocorrect feature,
currently Libre Office Writer, can be made to substitute ligatures
as I type. I think it should work, but have never tried something
like this.
Hi Ken,
have you tried wikipedia's page on ligatures [1] or the even more
extened table it links to [2]? It gives you unicode codes for the most
common ligatures (ff, etc.). Can you use Unicode in Libreoffice's
autocorrect?
Cheers,
Stefano
[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature#Ligatures_in_Unicode_.28Latin-derived_alphabets.29
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_precomposed_Latin_characters_in_Unicode#Digraphs_and_ligatures
Thanks for the links, I've bookmarked them for later.
My approach to learning LyX is going to be learning some font basics
first. It is a typography program, after all! LOL
Then find fonts that I like, and that hopefully will install and be
available for all software, not just LyX, or LO.
I don't know if LO supports Unicode or not, Apple does. I have to
figure out how to use Apple's font system, it has always confused me.
But I just found a long PDF from Adobe, written in the Tiger (10.4?) era
that I need to read for this. It looks the same in Mountain Lion, so
there should be some common ground.
I'm no longer too happy with LO, but haven't found a replacement as of yet.
--
Ken
Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 17.0.8
LibreOffice 4.1.0.4
