Printing font tables

The last recipes showed how to print text in a particular font. This gives you a visual representation immediately. In addition, you may want to see the entire set of characters and symbols in a font. You can let LaTeX print a font table for you to achieve this.

Note

We will use the term glyph when we refer to the graphic representation of a particular character or symbol in a font.

How to do it...

The fonttable package can print the character set of a font in the shape of a table. It’s straightforward, as follows:

1. In your document’s preamble, load the fonttable package:

   \usepackage{fonttable}

2. In the document’s body, use the following command to display the character table of the Zapf Dingbats font:

   \fonttable{pzdr}

3. Compile, and then you will see the following table in your document:

Figure 3.5 – The Zapf Dingbats character table

How it works...

The \fonttable command prints...