On Tue, Feb 09 2010 at 6:24 CET, hospes.pri...@verizon.net writes:
[...]
> XeTeX comes with that nifty utility that allows one to identify the OT
> or AAT features that exist in a font. It would be very helpful if
> there were a similar utility that would identify which characters have
> stylistic alternates. Running such a utility on a font would produce
> a list like this:
> a - 5 variants, b - 1 variant, e - 4 variants, g - 6 variants, etc.
>
> One could then construct a test document to see which alternates are
> accessed with which numbers. This is an important issue because some
> font makers don't provide exact information about what characters have
> alternate glyphs, even if they tell you that the font does contain
> stylistic alternates. (I guess they assume everyone uses an
> application like InDesign or Quark that comes with a palette to show
> the alternates.) Without this information XeTeX users can't access
> the variants since they have to be called numerically. Anybody want
> to write something like this? (I would do it but I don't have the
> programming skills.).
I would also like very such a tool. Do I understand correctly there is
still none?
Best regards
Janusz
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Prof. dr hab. Janusz S. Bien - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki
Formalnej)
Prof. Janusz S. Bien - University of Warsaw (Formal Linguistics Department)
jsb...@uw.edu.pl, jsb...@mimuw.edu.pl, http://fleksem.klf.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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