Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-18 Thread Michiel Kamermans
Hi Gerrit, I wonder, if you maybe know about a font browser for Windows which will show me the Opentype tables? I know that I can actually use the Opentype features in Xetex, but my problem is that I don’t always know, which features the font actually possesses. So I thought about a font bro

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-18 Thread hh-brasil
Maybe not in the MAC, but Ooffice does show the characters and Ubuntu too. hh Em 17/06/2010 13:12, Avi Wollman < avi.woll...@gmail.com > escreveu: BabelMap from http://babelstone.co.uk/ A free Unicode character map tool for Windows might answer your searching Avi On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread wodzicki
David Perry wrote: - > SIL ViewGlyph should do the job. Unfortunately, SIL ViewGlyph seems to be an obsolete piece of software. It doesn't see any fonts with the .otf extension. Mariusz -- Subscriptions, Archive, and List informa

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread David Perry
SIL ViewGlyph should do the job.  Andrew West's BabelMap may also, but I am not quite so sure about it off the top of my head.  If you have a 32-bit version of Windows, you can download the Microsoft Font Properties extension that gives some info about OT tables, but IIRC not quite as much as Vie

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Andy Lin
The OpenType Font File Properties Extension ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=25a5e8c5-4a5a-4619-a856-6005b1f83235&DisplayLang=en ) will allow you to view which features a font has, but there are two key limitations: -only works on Windows XP -doesn't show you the specific

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Gerrit
Hello Avi, actually I already use this application (and I really like it). I didn’t found a way to display opentype features, though. Thanks for the answer, though! @Kevin Ah, that was the programme I used on Linux a while before (I couldn’t remember). I will try that again. Thank you! A

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Kevin Klement
Have you tried fontmatrix? It's been awhile since I've used it, and I can't remember whether it does what you say about Old Style numerals, but it does list the font's open type features. http://fontmatrix.net/ (It.s free/open source) > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Gerrit wrote: >> >> Hello

Re: [XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Avi Wollman
BabelMap from http://babelstone.co.uk/ A free Unicode character map tool for Windows might answer your searching Avi On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Gerrit wrote: > Hello everybody, > > this question must seem really easy, but I cannot find anything usable on > the I

[XeTeX] Font Browser

2010-06-17 Thread Gerrit
Hello everybody, this question must seem really easy, but I cannot find anything usable on the Internet. Unfortunately it is only partially related to Xetex. I wonder, if you maybe know about a font browser for Windows which will show me the Opentype tables? I know that I can actually use t