Re: can I change Word's choice of font for certain unicode characters?

From: matt neuburg (matt_at_tidbits.com)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 23:13:19 GMT

David <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> If I'm typing in Times New Roman and I want to enter an IPA (phonetic)
> unicode character that's missing from Times New Roman, Word goes ahead
> and switches the font to Lucida Grande, which has those characters.
>
> The problem is, I don't want Lucida Grande! I want a different font that's on
> my system and also has the IPA characters in it (Doulos SIL). I can let Word
> do what it wants, and then manually change the font, but this is a big
> nuisance. Is there any way I can get Word to do what I want it to do --
> change to my choice of font, not its own?

I believe that this is happening at system level - TextEdit would do
exactly the same thing. Strategies for entering special characters, and
how Unicode works on Mac OS X, are discussed in some detail in my
recently publish Take Control ebook. An autotext (or a macro) could be
useful here. m. 

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