Re: What's wrong with "symbol" fonts?
Re: What's wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- Subject: Re: What's wrong with "symbol" fonts?
- From: Charles Srstka <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 22:42:28 -0500
Are you serious? It's necessary to change your system preferences just
to type a lousy delta symbol? How many new users are going to figure
that out?
On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 07:05 PM, Matt Judy wrote:
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There are keyboard layouts that allow you to type these characters. In
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System Preferences -> International -> Keyboard Menu, there are three
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layouts that may be of interest here:
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- Dingbats
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- Extended Roman (U)
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- Symbol
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You can turn them on, and use them whenever you need to type such
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characters.
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--Matt
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Douglas Davidson wrote:
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> On Wednesday, June 26, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Chaz wrote:
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>> I can't seem to get any of the fonts that display symbols (i.e.
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>> Wingdings, Webdings, Monotype Sorts, Zapf Dingbats) to work. There
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>> are some symbols that would be useful that I'd like to use in an
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>> NSView. I'm using an NSMutableAttributedString and it's drawAtPoint:
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>> method to draw text to the view, but anything drawn is not in a
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>> symbol font; It's in a regular alpha-numerical font. I've also
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>> noticed that TextEdit can't display these fonts either. Is it
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>> possible to use these fonts somehow?
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> Yes, it is. Just keep in mind that Cocoa text is based on Unicode.
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> To display a particular symbol, you need to use the Unicode character
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> for that symbol. If you are entering them in TextEdit, you may find a
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> Symbol keyboard on your system that may help. Programmatically, you
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> can use stringWithFormat:@"%C" or various other methods.
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>> Also, is it possible to draw text upside-down in an NSView?
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> Upside down, sideways, or anything in between, by changing the
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> transform. Take a look at the CircleView example, for example.
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> Douglas Davidson
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