From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Selecting character by glyph index
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:07:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53F1C268.5070108@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.xkrw3jnyfkrasx@ishamid-pc>
On 8/18/2014 7:48 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> Dear consortium,
>
> Is there a command analogous to \char or \fontchar which allows me to
> select a glyph by its index in the font? In most font editors you can
> choose "Index Mode" which shows the "physical" ordering of the glyphs
> independent of encoding etc.
>
> I thought that \charNN (where 'NN' is a decimal integer) did this, but
> it does not seem to select the correct indexed glyph for a \definefont,
> making me wonder in MkIV has changed its behavior. For example,
> choosing \char35 gives me glyph index 223, not glyph 35.
>
> In any case, for the current (already tedious) project this is a feature
> that is sorely needed; if there is a way to hack a quick lua-based
> command to do it, I would appreciate any help I can get. Perhaps a
> future version of \fontchar can add this as an option... Thanks in
> advance and
you cannot trust an index ... use names as these are more stable
\setupbodyfont[dejavu]
\starttext
\fontchar{a}
\fontchar{alpha}
\fontchar{three}
\fontchar{uni1ECB.dotless}
\fontchar{delta}
\fontchar{delta.smcp}
\stoptext
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