[HarfBuzz] tool for 'get all alternates'?

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sat Aug 11 15:39:01 PDT 2012


On 08/10/2012 04:23 PM, Rolf Langenhuijzen wrote:
> Does anyone know of some command line tool that shows some useful info similar to Adobe's CS Glyph window where you can "show alternates for selection."

We don't have that yet. But I'm working on one.

behdad

> Using the otfinfo tool I know things like how many stylistic sets there are in font, but sometimes there aren't any (or only a few) but there are many alternates inside the font. If I could somehow read an entire font to "index" the alternates per character that would be very handy.
> 
> If you have any ideas I'd like to hear em ;)
> 
> Best,
> Rolf



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