On 28 January 2010 16:40, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:05:42 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >>>> I have some (=tens of) unusual fonts which may or may not have that >>>> glyph, I'd like to know. >>> >>> ¿"Tens" or "tons"? :-) >>> >>> If there are less than 25 fonts is a relatively easy/fast task for >>> doing it manually. >>> >>> >> Over 40 > > Okay, that will take no more than... 5 minutes? :-) > > Open OOo Writer and write down the symbol to test it against all the > fonts. If some fonts do not display the Aleph, then you know it is not > available for that font-family. >
That is fine for a one-time test, but I would like to automate this as it is something that I will be doing often in a new project that I am involved in. > If the font has not available the symbol, it will display a "fallback > alternative" sign, this is a suggested standard feature of unicode fonts. > For instance, when I have Hebrew text but use a font that does not have Hebrew glyphs, I still see Hebrew letters. Obviously another font is being substituted. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
