[libreoffice-users] Re: Font charts

On 10/14/13 3:37 PM, Mark Bourne wrote:
> Ken Springer wrote:
> > On 10/14/13 12:46 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > > On 10/14/2013 12:44 PM, Gabriel Risterucci wrote:
> > > > 2013/10/14 Ken Springer <snowshed1@q.com>
> > > >
> > > > > Back in the 8-bit computer days, it was easy to find simple charts for
> > > > > various things, like this simple ASCII font chart.
> > > > ​Ha. Things were even simpler, english used only 7bits for useful
> > > > characters...​
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> > > > I don't know of an exact solution that would allow you to both specify a
> > > > font and a set of characters, but on most systems you can get some
> > > > kind of
> > > > character maps to display characters using a specific font. For
> > > > example on
> > > > windows, ​​you can run the "charmap" program. I don't remember the name,
> > > > but I know there is something similar under KDE/Linux.
> > >
> > >   From you posting, you use Mac, correct?
> >
> > I am.  But when I read Gabriel's post, I realized I'd forgotten to
> > include a link, which is now in a follow up post.  But here it is again:
> >    http://www.asciitable.com/
> >
> > > I am not using Mac, but there has to be some font viewer available for
> > > Mac.
> > >
> > > What are you looking to do with it?
> >
> > Make money????   LOL, I'm on a roll here.
> >
> > On the serious side...  If you look at the ASCII table link, you can see
> > that it's easy to scan the char column until you find "space" for
> > instance, then know the Dec code is32.
> >
> > I just want to do similar for all the characters in a contemporary font.
> >    Then I know the "code" to use for that extended character.  I found a
> > website, which sadly I can't find now, even with History in the browser,
> > that had a plethora of charts.  Thought I'd bookmarked it, but also
> > apparently not.  :-(
>
> Not sure if it's the same one, but I've found this handy for finding
> Unicode characters:
>     http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/
>
> It doesn't show the whole range in one table, as that would be quite
> some table, but you can view a whole block at once. Not all fonts
> contain all Unicode characters, so you may find that some of the more
> esoteric characters don't display properly or at all.


That's not the page I was writing about, but I've bookmarked it.  Thanks.


> > In another thread, I think here in LO, there was essentially a
> > typography discussion.  Two spaces after a period, or one?  In that
> > thread, I suggested trying the AutoCorrect function to get what you
> > want.  Now I'm going to try my own suggestion!   LOL  So, I need to know
> > where the em space is, and then see if I can enter that into AutoCorrect.
>
> Using the search on the above site, searching for "em space" shows that
> it's U+2003 (that's unicode character 2003 in hex, or 8195 decimal)
>
> Mark.


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