P.S. fontforge is a font editor but it also tells you where the glyphs you are looking for are and what their hex numbers are. You could also try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gucharmap, though.
2010/9/13 Alexander Schultheiß <[email protected]>: > Hello Marc > >> o I'd like to know how to access certain glyphs in the font >> files. For example, the euro symbol, the long es, and >> ornamental symbols. > > The command you're probably looking for is \char"<hex> where <hex> is > the hexadecimal number of the glyph in the font. You don't know the > number? See below ... > >> I'd appreciate it if somebody could provide some pointers >> which explain how to define proper commands for individual >> glyphs and how to fix the diacritics. > > You can redefine the command once you know the hexadecimal numbers of > the diacritics you need; e.g. macron below is 0331, thus you define > > \def\b#1{#1\char"0331}. > > This command defines a command sequence \b with a parameter called > '#1'. '#1' will be the glyph under which the macron will be put. The > command say, take glyph '#1' and put the glyph at pos. \char"0331 > behind it. Since macron below is a combining diacritical mark it has > negative width and will be placed under the preceding letter, roughly > spoken. > >> I'd appreciate it if somebody could recommend a nice unix >> tool that allows me to view the font tables? (I've googled >> around a bit but I failed to find anything nice.) > > fontforge > > Regards, Alex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
