On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 05:32:56AM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Hello Dotan,
> I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
> Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
Recently posted on another list:
http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/fontswith/fontswith.zip
$ fon
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:32:54 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> My first go at it just left the whole path... Now I have all these
> little gifs all over the filesystem!
Oops, "that hurts" -- thought that was obvious. :-)
>>> One question, why mlocate instead of locate?
>>
>> Well, "people say so", :-
On 29 January 2010 01:28, T o n g wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:16:27 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> script out of it, and I had to change the path-removal code:
>
> great, that was one exercise deliberately left for you. :-)
>
My first go at it just left the whole path... Now I have all these
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:16:27 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> script out of it, and I had to change the path-removal code:
great, that was one exercise deliberately left for you. :-)
> One question, why mlocate instead of locate?
Well, "people say so", :-) I actually don't know -- all that I know is
> Use imagemagick! Something like
>
> for fontf in `mlocate -i .ttf`; do
> convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 \
> -font $fontf label: ouput_pic($fontf).gif
> done
>
> to produce one pic file for each font you have then check them out one by
> one visually.
>
Thank you, that w
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:32:56 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
> Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
Use imagemagick! Something like
for fontf in `mlocate -i .ttf`; do
convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize
On 01/28/2010 08:32 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
This is part of a function using GTK+/Pango that checks for presence of
glyphs:
PangoContext *context;
PangoFontDesc
> Can't quite help you, but how about just fonts supporting hebrew?
>
> $ fc-list :lang=he
>
> from `man fc-list`.
>
Thank you, that will work for most of the cases that I have! I still
need a solution for the symbols (we will make heavy use of the unicode
math block) but this should get me sta
On 10-01-28 07:24:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 28 January 2010 12:42, Camaleón wrote:
...
> > On GNOME you can get accurate info about availabe fonts that can
> > represent that character with "Char Map" (gucharmap) application.
> >
>
> Yes, but I cannot search for fonts by glyph with that applic
>> OpenOffice is the wrong tool to find out if a font contains a glyph. As
>> you have discovered, OOo will substitute the glyph from another font,
>> and it won't tell you it has done so.
>
> I guess you mean the option under "Tools / Options / OpenOffice.org /
> Fonts / [x] Apply replacement tabl
> I suggest Fontmatrix or FontForge. They cannot automate the task, but
> at least if they say the font contains the glyph, then you know it's
> really there. (See comment below for additional options.)
>
Fontmatrix does not support Hebrew text very well (I was surprised to
find this limitation in
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:14:11 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:58:17 +0200
> Dotan Cohen dijo:
>
>>On 28 January 2010 16:40, Camaleón wrote:
>>> If the font has not available the symbol, it will display a "fallback
>>> alternative" sign, this is a suggested standard featu
> So what you are looking for is a kind of file descriptor listing the
> font's capabilities about unicode sygns, right?
That would be great, but I was thinking more about accessing the
glyphs directly. Of course, I have no idea if this is possible but
something like (psuedocode, language soup):
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:58:17 +0200
Dotan Cohen dijo:
>On 28 January 2010 16:40, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Open OOo Writer and write down the symbol to test it against all the
>> fonts. If some fonts do not display the Aleph, then you know it is
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:58:17 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 28 January 2010 16:40, Camaleón wrote:
>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Open OOo Writer and write down the symbol to test it against all the
>> fonts. If some fonts do not display the Aleph, then you know it i
On 28 January 2010 16:40, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
I have some (=tens of) unusual fonts which may or may not have that
glyph, I'd like to know.
>>>
>>> ¿"Tens" or "tons"? :-)
>>>
>>> If there are less than 25 fonts is a relatively easy/fa
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> I have some (=tens of) unusual fonts which may or may not have that
>>> glyph, I'd like to know.
>>
>> ¿"Tens" or "tons"? :-)
>>
>> If there are less than 25 fonts is a relatively easy/fast task for
>> doing it manually.
>>
>>
> Over 40
O
>> I have some (=tens of) unusual fonts which may or may not have that
>> glyph, I'd like to know.
>
> ¿"Tens" or "tons"? :-)
>
> If there are less than 25 fonts is a relatively easy/fast task for doing
> it manually.
>
Over 40
> You can search for the glyph code (00a5) and once selected, choose
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:24 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 28 January 2010 12:42, Camaleón wrote:
> I have some (=tens of) unusual fonts which may or may not have that
> glyph, I'd like to know.
¿"Tens" or "tons"? :-)
If there are less than 25 fonts is a relatively easy/fast task for doing
it
On 28 January 2010 12:42, Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:32:56 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>> I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
>> Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
>
> The "aleph"? א
>
Yes, I'd like to see which fonts have Hebrew glyphs.
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:32:56 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
> Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
The "aleph"? א
:-)
I've tried with TrueType fonts (Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, Times New
Roma...) and also with Liberation
I need to know which of my installed fonts have glyphs for a specific
Unicode character (U+05D0). How can I do that?
Thanks!
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