On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:54:41 +0300 Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com> dijo:
>On 12/27/09, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I need fonts that contain all the glyphs necessary for linguistics >> work. I was trying to use the Compare feature to determine which of >> the ~120 glyphs that I need were missing from certain fonts. >Coincidentally Gucharmap utility from GNOME used to display a list of >fonts that have a particular chosen glyph. Oh no! Never use that thing. It caused me hours of grief, including embarrassment when I complained that Scribus was not displaying a glyph that it said was in the font I was using. It does an acceptable job when you open the regular font of a particular face. But when you switch to the italic, bold, or bold-italic version it fakes the glyphs based on what was in the regular version. Thus, if a glyph exists in the regular version of the face, but not in the italic, bold, or bold-italic version, you will never know that it is missing in the other versions. Bad, bad design. I also have gnome-specimen installed, but it is even worse. In all versions of a font it displays glyphs that I know are not in the font. The only three I trust are Fontmatrix, FontForge, and Scribus.
