[libreoffice-users] Re: Font charts

On 10/14/13 1:30 PM, James Knott wrote:
> Ken Springer wrote:
> > > Back in the 8-bit computer days, it was easy to find simple charts for
> > > various things, like this simple ASCII font chart.
> >
> > LMAO!!!   Forgot to include the link!
> >
> > http://www.asciitable.com/
> >
> > > Does anyone know of a similar simple chart for modern/contemporary
> > > fonts?  Everything I've found so far, for charts, are far more complex
> > > than I'm looking for.
>
> One of the things that's making what you want more difficult to find is
> unicode.  Unicode supports many thousands of characters, so it's a large
> table.  You can search on unicode to find the tables.  However, you may
> be going about this the wrong way.  Is there a specific set of
> characters, such as for another language?  If so, you can enable other
> keyboard layouts and switch among them.  For example, I have
> International English enabled so that I can get a variety of symbols and
> also the Greek layout for characters that are commonly used in
> electronics.  I just press <Ctl><Shift> to switch.

I know it's going to be more complicated, but I'm thinking more of just 
English for typography purposes, general writing and not technical writing.

An explanation is here:

news://news.gmane.org:119/l3hgnv$s2q$1@ger.gmane.org

A different keyboard layout is something that hadn't occurred to me.  I 
may have to check that out later.


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Ken

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