Re: Grepping fonts for a specific glyph
> 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 a font application). Fontforge does seem to
show only the glyphs in the font, but it is a pain! I will try to
learn a bit more about the application, though, thanks.
>>> If the font has not available the symbol, it will display a "fallback
>>> alternative" sign, this is a suggested standard feature of unicode
>>> fonts.
>
>>For instance, when I have Hebrew text but use a font that does not
>>have Hebrew glyphs, I still see Hebrew letters. Obviously another font
>>is being substituted.
>
> 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. As far as I know this is also
> true for MS Office, KOffice and AbiWord. Apparently users find this
> "feature" so useful that Apple included it in the operating system for
> MacOS.
>
> A better tool would be Scribus, in canvas view (not in Story Editor
> view). I needed to do a similar task for glyphs required by the
> International Phonetic Alphabet. I created a document where I typed all
> the glyphs (about 60), then copied and pasted over and over. I set each
> set to one of the fonts I was considering and then looked for holes. If
> you line the sets up to look like a table it makes it easy to see the
> results.
>
>
Thanks.
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