Command Line Scripts

ortho

ortho – Query fonts about orthographic support.

Usage

ortho [-h] [-f] [-p] [-n NEAR_MISS] font [font ...]

When called without any options, ortho will determine the orthographic support of the supplied font(s) by looking at the required characters for each orthography.

$ ortho ComicJens.ttf
The font supports 104 orthographies:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Asu (Tanzania)
Azeri
Basque
Bemba
Bena
Bosnian
Catalan
[...]
Zulu

Options

-f | --full-only

The -f option only lists orthographies for which all required and optional characters are present in the font.

$ ortho -f ComicJens.ttf
The font supports 98 orthographies:
Afrikaans
Albanian
Asu (Tanzania)
Azeri
Basque
Bemba
Bena
Bosnian
Catalan
[...]
Zulu

-p | --punctuation

Prints a list of orthographies for which all letter category characters are present in the font, but have missing punctuation category characters. For the missing characters, Unicode, glyph name, and Unicode name are reported.

$ ortho -p ComicJens.ttf
Orthographies which can be supported by adding punctuation characters:

Scottish Gaelic
    0x204A        uni204A Tironian Sign Et

-n N | --near-miss N

Prints a list of orthographies which are lacking up to a number of N characters to be supported. For the missing characters, Unicode, glyph name, and Unicode name are reported.

$ ortho -n 1 ComicJens.ttf
Orthographies which can be supported with max. 1 additional character:

Breton
    0x02BC        uni02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe

Hawaiian
    0x02BB        uni02BB Modifier Letter Turned Comma

Quechua
    0x02BC        uni02BC Modifier Letter Apostrophe

Tongan
    0x02BB        uni02BB Modifier Letter Turned Comma