[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Toxaris

I know NexusFont (and use it) and I find it acceptable at most. PopChar and Ultra Character Map looks interesting, but are OSX only (so unusable for me personally).

Do I understand correctly that if you get create a PDF with the glyph map, that it would already be a big help?

Hi, Tox:

No, wait, there's a PopChar Windows version, otherwise, I would have said in my post, good for iOS, no version for Windows. This link: http://www.ergonis.com/products/popc.../features.html goes to PopCharWin. There's also PopCharOS.

Yes: I think (I believe) that if I had a PDF of the font's glyphs, then that would make it far easier. A "map," for lack of a better word. As an example, Worthington puts out PDFs with her fonts, that show the locations (the Char Map, in other words), along with some samples of how her alternates have been used. I find this helpful. (Think: "Using My Glyphs For Dummies" type thing.) HOWEVER, it's also true that if I were to use the PDF, I'd still have to pop open the CharMap or Font Suitcase, etc., to access and use the Glyph. Thus....I think I need something like PopChar.

Originally Posted by eschwartz

That's not really fair, as @shall1028 has posted several times recently -- wouldn't be the only person to leave MR for a while and then come back.

True.

No, my objection to that post is irrespective of how often he posts.
No one here needs people poking their nose in and complaining about purely arbitrary preferences in posting style, especially when it is made semi-obvious that Hitch is looking to hear "feedback from my peeps" (implies regular friends and acquaintances, who are used to her ways), especially when the objections raised are flat-out wrong anyway, and especially when their bile serves no purpose whatsoever other than to stir up trouble in a situation which they clearly had no interest in to begin with.

And... wait for it... looks like we've crossed paths before! https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=3244453

Ah, yes. I recall that now. Thanks, eschwartz. MR is one of the very few places on the Net where, by and large, I go to relax. The other being Straight Dope. I spend all day writing business correspondence. I tend to feel--perhaps mistakenly--that if I want to ramble a bit, here, the earth won't spin off its axis. I definitely can yammer, or go off on "stream-of-consciousness" posts on MR. (Straight Dopers is more...precision debating, using logic/facts. Love that, too.) But if I have to refine my posts into typical, vanilla, personality-stripped prose...it would mean I can't relax here, either, which would be a bummer. I do feel that most MR'ers are "my peeps," so....{shrug}.

(And, honestly: I don't get the patois comment. I realize that everyone here comes from different places on the planet, and are different ages; I guess I'm the only one that remembers the "make-a-de-meatball" shtick from the 70's. Hell, could have been the 60's. Either way, I was a bit surprised at the vitriol. Perhaps it was simply too many commas. Not being snarky; compound sentences are harder to parse. The thread title, including "Fonty Goodness" was a Firefly reference. Thought for certain THAT would have been recognized....)

@shal1028: This forum has a feature by which you are able to "ignore" specific posters--not see their posts. I think we'd both be far, far, happier if you would set yours to not see ME. Thanks.

@Hitch,

Although I don't really do fonts (I *think* some came preinstalled in the base installation of my OS ) I'm definitely rooting for you. Sorry to see you got such a "warm" greeting.
And FWIW I do think this is in the right forum. It's all about one of the ingredients in an ebook, right?

Yes, it's for eBook ingredients. That's the point. For the last 8 or so years, the idea of using a swash, or a fleuron (by and large), decorative caps, etc., has been a bit of a pipe dream. Either you had to control the entire user experience so that they couldn't change anything (line-height, font), like print, or you simply didn't do it.

With Amazon moving in the direction of advanced typography, I think that becoming more au fait with the font alternates and glyphs is appropriate. We are one of the very few conversion houses that will even do custom embedded font work, in eBook products.

Now I simply need advice as to the tools that other folks have found valuable to manage font families that are far larger than the simple, "26 uppercase, 26 lowercase, 9 numbers plus 0, and some punctuation symbols" font files. ;-) When I look at my fonts dropbox (where we store all the company fonts, as everyone needs access to them), it seems a teeny-weeny bit overwhelming.

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Have checked out BabelMap (Windows freeware). It supports only the following features listed for PopChar, though:

• Full Unicode support
• Search for characters by name, by Unicode number or by simply pasting some text from your document into the search field.
• Font information
• Magnifier tool provides an enlarged view to see selected characters in full detail.
• "Reverse search" for fonts that contain a particular character.

Nope, but I'll go forth and look at it. Thanks! It can't hurt to take a peek. I know that a few of our fellow eBookers and commenters "do" fonts. Even Wolfie, apparently. I guess I'll just download trials, and, as always, try, buy and cry. I need a "software addict" support group!

Thanks, gang. (Oh, wait...is that patios, too???? EEEK!)

Hitch