Re: Fonts and open office
Re: Fonts and open office
- Subject: Re: Fonts and open office
- From: rcohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 08:44:33 -0700
If I open TextEdit and look at the font choices, there is no choice for
"math" anything.
There is a choice of symbol font, but in fact it doesn't invoke the
symbol font.
Another responder (Tom Gewecke) notes that
"With 10.2 the only way to input from the Symbol font is via the
Character
Palette, not the keyboard (unless you create a custom keyboard for it)."
This is not true for example in several applications (MS Office,
Canvass, ...) so they must have done something special. But it does
seem to be true for TextEdit, and thus apparently
the way generic apps work. What a step backwards.
-Ron Cohen-
On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 06:35 AM, James SterlingIII wrote:
>>I wonder why it broke; and why symbol is so special.
I have yet to work or play with Open Office but on the symbol font..
It use to be the "math" symbols font.. And in the Mac side ( "normal"
applications ) it seem to still be that..
Capital B = Beta etc ..
Hope this helps and adds some background information..
Jim Sterling
on 9/13/03 2:38 AM, rcohen at email@hidden wrote:
> You might want to check something else -- if you just open text edit
> and try to select
> symbol font, when you type you will get something else (I think
> whatever font
> was previously selected). There is something funny about what Apple
has
> done with Symbol font....
>
> -Ron-
>
>
>
> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 09:59 PM, Robert D. Sharp wrote:
>
>> I just did an install of Open Office and immediately checked. 1.0.3
>> does seem to have a problem with the Symbol.ttf file. In fact there
>> are several fonts that have no names (apparently). I scrolled down
to
>> where I thought Symbol might be. There was a row if six empty
boxes.
>> Font names above and below. When I moved down below Symbol so that
it
>> disappears. When I scroll back up the name appears. If I select it
>> (i.e., in the document, I select all then set the font. I get a few
>> characters which I suspect are not available in Symbol
>>
>> Since I am a total newbie at X11 and OO, I am glad that I read your
>> post before I did much with it.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:28 PM, rcohen wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone out there have a successful installation of OpenOffice
1.0.3?
>>> I tried
>>> today, and find that I do not have the Symbol font. I followed the
>>> recommended
>>> options of the installer.
>>>
>>> -Ron Cohen
>> --
>> It has been said before but warrants repeating, "If you think
>> education is expensive, try ignorance."
>>
>> Bob Sharp
>> 6/7 th Grade Math Academy Teacher
>> Board Member, The Learning Space
>> Past Middle School Representative to the NCCE Board
>> Recipient of The First Annual Learning Space Achievement Awards for
>> Members
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