smoltext 1.1.0

A font converter utility with the extra fonts included in utf8.

Smoltext

$ smoltext -h
usage: smoltext [-h] [-c] [-f FONT] [--list-fonts] [text [text ...]]

positional arguments:
  text                  text to process

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c, --copy            copies processed text to clipboard
  -f FONT, --font FONT  which font to use
  --list-fonts          list all supported fonts
$ smoltext -f italic hello
𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰
$ smoltext -f sub hello
ʰᵉˡˡᵒ
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A font converter utility with the extra fonts included in utf8.

Installation

With pip:

pip install smoltext --user

Manually:

git clone https://gitlab.com/imsofi/smoltext/
cd smoltext
pip install --upgrade setuptools wheel
python setup.py bdist_wheel
pip install dist/smoltext-*.whl

Enable tab completion:

Either use this for global argcomplete for all python scripts.

activate-global-python-argcomplete --user

Or you can add eval "$(register-python-argcomplete smoltext)" to your .bashrc to only allow smoltext to have argcomplete completion.

More detailed instructions for argcomplete installation can be found here.

Current Features

• Processes text input and gives an output of the desired font.
• List out all available fonts with previews.
• Clipboard functionality for fast usage.
• Easy to use CLI commands.
• Tab completion.

Common issues

• Certain browsers and terminals fail to render certain font styles regardless of font.
• Kerning can be off in the terminal due to monospaced font.
• Certain fonts don't include all font styles used in this package.

Issues?

If you are having issues. Feel free to open an issue.