Re: SILDoulos IPA 93 font in Word 2004
From: Laurie A. Duncan (laurie_at_macsamurai.com)
Date: 07/29/04
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Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:20:37 -0400
Thank you, matt. I have read the thread you reference in the archives and
now have a better grasp of the problem. I appreciate your offer to help out.
We are going to check out Klaus' macro as well as your suggestion and
determine what would be the best work-around for the affected documents.
Laurie
On 7/27/04 10:48 PM, in article 1ghllic.1a6lhk2k9odi8N%matt@tidbits.com,
"matt neuburg" <matt@tidbits.com> wrote:
> Laurie A. Duncan <laurie@macsamurai.com> wrote:
>
>> We've begun to roll out Office 2004 to some of our more advanced users for
>> testing and have come across an issue with the SILDoulos IPA 93 font.
>>
>> Word docs created in previous versions that use this font (it's used for
>> phonetics in certain documents) continue to appear fine in Office 2001 and
>> earlier, however, the font becomes boxes when the same doc is opened in
>> Office 2004. Furthermore, new docs created with Office 2004 cannot use the
>> font - no matter how you try to apply the font style, it still causes the
>> word to appear either as another font (a times variant usually) or with one
>> of those boxes directly after the formatted word.
>>
>> We have confirmed this problem on multiple machines, even with the font
>> freshly installed.
>>
>> Is there a workaround for this behavior or is this a bug?
>
> We just went through this in great depth; in fact, it's such a fruitful
> example that I'm using it for an ebook on Word that I'm writing. So,
> check the archives.
>
> Basically the answer is that SILDoulosIPA 93 is a bad font in relation
> to Mac OS X, and upgrading to Word 2004 simply exposes the badness. This
> font has three cmap tables, and with Word 2004, the Unicode table is
> (rightly) used. But it uses the Unicode Private Use Area, and this is
> incompatible with the old Macintosh table, which was what we call an
> ASCII hack, so you get the boxes.
>
> The solution, I'm afraid, is to convert your characters one at a time.
> Most of the characters have Unicode equivalents in normal Mac OS X
> Panther fonts; and they all have equivalents in the new DoulosSIL font,
> which is a proper Unicode font and works great. Feel free to send me a
> document and I'll convert a few characters for you, to show you the
> procedure, if you can't figure out what I'm talking about. m.
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