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 12:29:53 -0700
OK I'm getting the hang of this; using the "international" control
panel I can
set up a greek keyboard.
OpenOffice seems to even work with it (sometimes).
But now we have an incompatability that I hand't appreciated: RTF files
generated with different applications aren't interchangeable. Greek
created
with symbol font in Office won't show up in text edit. Greek created
with unicode
in text edit or open office won't show up in Office. You can't use the
unicode
palette to insert characters into Office docs, etc. Quite a mess.
-Ron-
On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Tom Gewecke wrote:
But anyway, OSX seems to have a symbol font supplied, in
/System/Library/Fonts. Other
fonts in that directory behave like normal fonts. What makes Symbol
different?
The "other fonts" (at least those for Latin characters) all use Unicode
range 0000-00FF or so. Symbol uses Unicode range 2000 and up.
Needless to
say, fonts for other scripts, like Chinese or Russian or Arabic also
use
their own ranges (and need custom keyboards).
http://www.unicode.org/charts/
Maybe I need to learn how to configure a custom keyboard. (Where do I
find
http://www.wordherd.com/keyboards
That would help with TextEdit
(where I hardly ever use Symbol), but I can't see how it would help
the
Open Office issue.
I think you can make custom kb's for OpenOffice too, but I'm not that
familiar with it. Whether there is some other problem with Openoffice
recognizing the Apple symbol font I don't know.
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