Re: Fonts and open office
Re: Fonts and open office
- Subject: Re: Fonts and open office
- From: Jim Elliott <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:39:03 -0500
What you're seeing is the difference between Carbon, the
backwards-compatibility framework to simplify porting old MacOS
applications (used by many existing apps like Office and Canvas), and
Cocoa, the modern, Objective C environment that started life as
NeXTstep (used by applications written for OS X only). Cocoa gives you
a tremendous amount of power very easily, and apps written in it take
advantage of more of the OS X environment and fit in better, but they
behave fundamentally differently than Carbon apps, and it is confusing
to have to deal with both.
The Character Palette does a lot more than just letting you enter
symbols; it supports full Unicode, provides a nice way of searching for
particular Japanese or Chinese characters from the many thousands that
exist, lets you insert glyphs even if they aren't directly supported in
your current font, and so on. You can put it in your menu bar by
checking it in the Input Menu tab of the International pane in System
Preferences. It's definitely worth learning how to use effectively.
-Jim
On Saturday, Sep 13, 2003, at 10:44 America/Chicago, rcohen wrote:
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-
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