On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Alan Stone wrote:
> >> Is there a (preferably free) Linux or Windows font tool out there which
> >> allows to print a font's characters and corresponding character codes ?
> >
> > Geeks do it with LuaTeX :)
> >
> > I'm not sure if this still works since I have no luatex here, but in
> > theory you can play with something like this:
> >
> > % do whatever you want with it
> > \def\mychar#1#2{#1: #2\crlf}
> >
> > \starttext
> > \ctxlua{
> >       fontname = 'texgyrepagella-regular.otf'
> >       tfmdata = fonts.tfm.read_and_define("file:" .. fontname, 655360)
> >
> >       w = tfmdata.characters
> >       for i=0,100000 do
> >               if w[i] then
> >                       tex.sprint("\\strut\\mychar{" .. i, "}{\\type{",
> w[i].name, "}}")
> >               end
> >       end
> > }
> > \stoptext
>
> lesser geeks loom in s-fnt-10.tex -)
>
> Hans
>
>

Is something missing to make it work ? See attachements.

Tried with WXP & LNX.

-- 
Best,
Alan

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