Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Springer 
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.


Any help would be appreciated.

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 17.0.8
LibreOffice 4.1.0.4

Re: Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread stefano franchi 
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ken Springer 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
-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Springer 

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

Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Springer 
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.


Any help would be appreciated.

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 17.0.8
LibreOffice 4.1.0.4

Re: Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread stefano franchi 
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ken Springer 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
-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas AM University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Springer 

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

Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Springer 
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.


Any help would be appreciated.

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.8.5
Firefox 24.0
Thunderbird 17.0.8
LibreOffice 4.1.0.4

Re: Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread stefano franchi 
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ken Springer  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
-- 
__
Stefano Franchi
Associate Research Professor
Department of Hispanic StudiesPh:   +1 (979) 845-2125
Texas A University  Fax:  +1 (979) 845-6421
College Station, Texas, USA

stef...@tamu.edu
http://stefano.cleinias.org

Re: Font tables/charts, a tad OT, IMO :-)

2013-10-13 Thread Ken Springer 

On 10/13/13 8:52 AM, stefano franchi wrote:




On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ken Springer > 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