On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 11:24:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > > This took a lot of trial > and error after I had the main fonts covered - gucharmap is good for > seeing what you cover adequately, and what has gaps. Maybe there is > a kde application that also does this.
Just for the record, kcharselect is the near-equivalent. For seeing what you *can* cover, it isn't very useful (it limits itself to what is in the font you have chosen, so e.g. Bitstream Vera variants can do ć č but not the neighbouring ĉ ċ ), and it only shows you a numbered 'table' (so, only a 32x8 display, fixed size) instead of gucharmap's choice of 'script' which both groups everything together and allows considerably more than 256 characters to be displayed - handy for latin in particular). OTOH, if you know _where_ you want to look, kcharselect is good for showing which characters are in a particular font, e.g. I can see that PakType Naqsh gives attractive 'handwritten' latin letters for *most* european forms, with 'conventional' forms for greek and cyrillic. Probably not particularly useful (it's actually quite hard to read when used for text), but a "hidden extra" from a font I had assumed was only giving me urdu glyphs. For me, kcharselect tends to lock up, but that might be a local problem (I'm on pure64 at the moment) and for now I'm not interested in debugging it. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
