Re: Missing characters/unusable font in Word 2004

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Hi Whatever Your Name Is:

That's not actually a bug: that's a feature :-)

In the Insert>Symbol dialog, what you see is a matrix table that shows all
of the "slots" in the character range of the font, and a picture of the
glyph that is in each.

The idea is that you are supposed to be able to figure out what the
character number of a glyph is by its position in the table. Symbol is a
very small font that contains few glyphs, so several of those positions are
"intentionally blank", there is no glyph in Symbol at that character
address.

This is an old mechanism designed in the pre-Unicode days when "character
number" was important. Now, we don't care what character number a glyph has
in a font, we're only interested in its Unicode value. You notice that down
the bottom of the dialog, it tells you what the Unicode value for each glyph
actually is. The new version of this dialog will simply show the Unicode
value and Name, just like Font Book does.

In the meantime, check the version of your font: I have two on my system.
One installed by the Classic environment is version 3.5 from 2000. This is
a font suitcase and is fairly limited. The other is version 4.1d3 from
2003. It's a Unicode datafork true-type font that has a wider range of
characters available.

You may want to check that you have the correct version enabled on your
system. :-)

Cheers

On 12/3/06 9:41 AM, in article
1142116918.373940.301080@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"kretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <kretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm having this problem with the Symbol font.. However, even in the
Symbol palette inside Word, there are quite a lot of positions now
which show just as rectangles


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