Font::TTF::OTTags(3pm)

Font::TTF::OTTags3pm

Utilities for truetype/opentype tags

Usage

  use Font::TTF::OTTags qw( %tttags %ttnames %iso639 readtagsfile );
  
  # Look at built-in stuff:
  $script_tag = $tttags{'SCRIPT'}{'Cypriot Syllabary'};  # returns 'cprt'
  $lang_name = $ttnames{'LANGUAGE'}{'ALT '};             # returns 'Altai'
  
  # Map iso639-2 tag to/from OT lang tag
  @isotags = $iso639{'ALT '};    # returns [ 'atv', 'alt' ]
  $lang_tag = $iso639{'atv'};    # returns 'ALT '
    
  # Read latest tags file to add to built-in definitions
  readtagsfile ("C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft VOLT\\TAGS.txt");

First-level keys to %tttags and %ttnames are:

SCRIPT

retrieve script tag or name

LANGUAGE

retrieve language tag or name

FEATURE

retrieve feature tag or name

Built-in data has been derived from the 2014-07-11 draft of the 3rd edition of ISO/IEC 14496-22 (Information technology - Coding of audio-visual objects - Part 22: Open Font Format) which, when finalized and approved, will replace the second edition (ISO/IEC 14496-22:2009).

Methods

readtagsfile ( filename )

Read a file in the syntax of Tags.txt (included with Microsoft VOLT) to obtain additional/replacement tag definitions.

Returns 0 if cannot open the file; else 1.

Licensing

Copyright (c) 1998-2016, SIL International (http://www.sil.org)

This module is released under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For details, see the full text of the license in the file LICENSE.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 5.0–6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9–10
  5. 11
  6. 12–13
  7. Arch

Author

Bob Hallissy. <http://scripts.sil.org/FontUtils>.

From perl-font-ttf 1.06-6 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.