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Using individual glyphs from a OpenType Font in LuaLaTeX

I am currently preparing a tutorial on the Texas Instruments BAII Plus Professional Calculator in LaTeX. TI provides the font for the different keystrokes as TTF and PFB/PFM which makes it way easier to typeset the symbols.

The first step was to convert the font to OTF format. I tried TTF 2 OTF first without luck as the resulting OTF did not have any symbols in it. Using PFB 2 OTF worked better, the generated OTF had supposedly all the keys in it.

In the next step I wanted to generate an LaTeX overview of all symbols. Using the information from https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/103704/how-to-properly-install-and-use-a-new-font-with-lualatex and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/25249/how-do-i-use-a-particular-font-for-a-small-section-of-text-in-my-document/37251 I came up with the following (don’t forget to install the OTF before!):

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
 
\usepackage[left=1cm,right=1cm,landscape,a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{fontspec}
 
\newfontfamily\tifont{BA2Plus Symbols}
 
\usepackage{luacode}
\usepackage{longtable,array,xcolor,listings}
\begin{luacode*} 
function print_glyphs(maxCols,maxChars) 
  local id = font.current()         -- geht Font ID
  local fnt = font.getfont(id)
  local col = 1
  local maxU4 = 15*(16^3+16^2+16+1)
  a = {}
  for k, v in pairs(fnt.characters) do
    a [#a + 1] = k
  end
  table.sort(a)
  for i, k in ipairs(a) do
    if i >= maxChars then break end
    if col == 1 then
      if k > maxU4 then
        tex.sprint(string.format("U+%06x", k))
      else
        tex.sprint(string.format("U+%04x", k))
      end
      tex.sprint("&") 
    end
    if (i) then
      tex.sprint(string.format([[\char%i]], k))
    else
     tex.sprint("~")
    end
    if col == maxCols then              -- Line finished?
      tex.sprint([[\\\cline{2-]] .. maxCols+1 .. "} ")  -- Yes
      col = 1                           -- newline
    else
      tex.sprint("&")                   -- no, Print &
      col = col + 1                     -- next column
    end
  end
end
\end{luacode*}
 
 
\begin{document}
 
{\tifont
\begin{longtable}{>{\color{black!50}\ttfamily\footnotesize}r|
                  *{10}{>{\color{black}}p{5em}|}}
\cline{2-11}
\endhead
 
\directlua{print_glyphs(10,65463)} \\ \cline{2-11}
\end{longtable}}
 
\end{document}

PDF

The next step then was to create a logic of how to address the different symbols. Of course TSX was helpful again (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/38402/how-to-pick-a-specific-symbol-from-a-specific-font):

\documentclass[twocolumn]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[top=4cm,left=2cm,right=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\newfontfamily\tifont{BA2Plus Symbols}
\newcommand\tif[1]{{\tifont\symbol{#1}}}
\usepackage{fonttable}
 
\begin{document}
\twocolumn
 
33  >  \tif{33}
 
34  >  \tif{34}
 
...
 
124  >  \tif{124}
 
125  >  \tif{125}
 
\end{document}

PDF

The next step is to come up with a convenient way of addressing the glyphs, e.g. by creating aliases for each glyph.

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