On 10/14/2013 09:58 PM, Ken Springer wrote: > On 10/14/13 6:01 PM, Ken Springer wrote: >> 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 <[email protected]> > > <snip> > >>> 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. > > I found the page I was looking for, http://unicode.org/charts/. That > page made me realize I've got to learn more about today's font files. > If you check one of there fonts, say this one, > http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf, that's the type of simple > chart I'm looking for, except for one missing item. For character > 0002 which is the space, I'd like the word "space" to be associated > with the character in the chart. That tells me what the character is > called in plain English, i.e. "space", "em square", "decimal sign", > etc. Then it should be easier to check the font I wish to use to see > if it contains the extended characters/ligatures/etc. I need/want to use. > > I used to really be into typography, but it was in the ASCII days, > around the Windows for Workgroups time. > >
Good There are some really good fonts out there, especially novelty and specialty fonts. I have a "large" collection of these fonts, plus a full set of Adobe fonts [TrueType and OpenType] When I do a "properties" on my non-Adobe font folders I get: 199,966 items in 13.4 GB My Adobe font folder of the collection from pre-2009 5129 items in 336.8 MB - with only 519 as TrueType fonts There are a lot of calligraphy fonts that has special "glyphs" that contain special combinations of letters and/or swirls that calligraphy style of writing is "famous" for. To be honest, there are fonts for your every need, and a great many of them are for free. I currently have over 600 fonts installed [that contain over 900 different fonts and their included styles] on my Ubuntu desktop computer. My laptops contain a little less installed fonts. You will be amazed what you can do with these modern fonts in Writer or a graphics package. I produce a lot of signs, posters, and invitations, with Writer and packages like Inkscape and Corel Draw. The types of calligraphy fonts [and the alternative/extra glyph fonts] make really beautiful items/documents for people. Of course, if you are going to deal with glyphs from different languages [using non-Latin letters], there are a great number of fonts dedicated for those languages, so you do not need to use their language glyphs in a Unicode font, like Arial. Arial Unicode seems to have the most letters and glyphs, of any of the Unicode fonts I know about. Happy Exploring. . . -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
