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extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:35 pm
by alanckt
I have problem from copying a set of glyphs from A fonts set to B fonts set. If I could not extract out the unicode code points from the highlighted glyphs of B fonts set. I need to type them in one by one to do the extraction of glyphs from A fonts set. How can I do it without typing in the code points one by one?
cheers
Alan Tan

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:11 pm
by Erwin Denissen
Do take a look at Paste Special in the manual.

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 10:12 pm
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Use Paste Special from the Edit menu.

Make sure that the glyphs are in the same order in both fonts. You can sort fonts by codepoint from the Tools menu.

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:22 pm
by alanckt
Hi Bhikkhu,
Thank for attending to my request.
I like to point out that i need the code points and not the glyphs.
Just a string of code points.
cheers
Alan Tan

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 7:41 pm
by Bhikkhu Pesala
alanckt wrote: Sat Jan 27, 2018 9:35 pmI need to type them in one by one to do the extraction of glyphs from A fonts set. How can I do it without typing in the code points one by one?
  1. Copy the glyphs from font A
  2. Insert the same number of new glyphs in font B
  3. Paste special, Glyph Name and Code-points

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:35 pm
by alanckt
I think I have come into a wrong place
I believe the feature is not there.
Shall I ask for a new feature from support?
I have used paste special for 4 years and i know powerful it is.

cheers
Alan Tan

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 1:18 pm
by Bhikkhu Pesala
alanckt wrote: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:35 pmShall I ask for a new feature from support?
If you add a Feature Request we may have the same problem of understanding what you're requesting.

In your first post you said:
I have problem from copying a set of glyphs from A fonts set to B fonts set. If I could not extract out the unicode code points from the highlighted glyphs of B fonts set.
We have described how to do this.

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:26 pm
by alanckt
Hi Bhikkhu,
Thank for the advice.
Just to clarify my need.
We use a string of code points in the FIND to display a matrix of glyphs if the glyphs were in the font set.
If I tagged or highlighted some of the glyphs in the matrix of glyphs and i wish to get the code points only of those tagged glyphs, what should I do?
I just need to extract the code points in a form of text string from the matrix of glyphs. (a reverse of FIND function). I hope I have make my point clear. Please ignore the confusing statement I made before.

cheers
Alan Tan

Re: extraction of unicode code point from highlighted glyphs

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:40 pm
by Bhikkhu Pesala
Yes, but why do you need a list of code-points to copy a set of glyphs from font A to font B? Why not just add new glyphs and paste special?

Have a look at using a transform script to select glyphs by glyphnames, instead of code-points.

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