Re: iserting special symbols

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Thank you Suzanne,
Reading your articles (they are great resources) prompted me to ask you one
more question:
Can I use my own defined symbol in Equation Editor? Actually I have MathType
5 installed. Same software but a bit more powerful. If it was possible then
the final equation is inserted as a graphic I believe, and it should do the
trick of portability. Or you would still need to embed the special character
font? I have sent a question on using my special characters in MathType to
their technical support on Monday and am still waiting for an answer.

--
JanAdam


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Font embedding might improve the situation both for Word documents and for
PDFs, but if that doesn't work, there are other options.

For example, you might be able to cobble something together from existing
symbols that would be universally available. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm and
http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm for some techniques that
might help. There will still be some user requirements: if you create a
combined character that uses a character available only in Arial Unicode MS,
for example, then users would have to have that font installed. And if you
want users to be able to insert your character easily, you would need to
distribute the document as a template with the character stored as an
AutoText entry (AutoText can't be stored in documents).

Another possibility, if your symbol will be needed at only one font size,
would be to save it as a picture and then save that picture as an AutoText
entry.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"JanAdam" <JanAdam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Working on a book I am struggling with my need to use several special
symbols.

Assume that I am writing a chemical reaction with a chemical formula of a
species that is sitting at a solid/liquid interface. To denote that it is
a
surface species I use a symbol that looks like a vertical line with a
hatched
area just left of the line. I have created such a symbol using eudcedit
and
it does the job just fine but … (There always seems to be a *but*). So in
this case it is that it does the job for me only.

My questions are as follows (in whatever order):
i. suppose I send the file to somebody else, who does not have my new
symbol, or has assigned a different character to the same Unicode value.
What
do I do? Can I embed my special characters with the document?
ii. is it possible to have my special symbols visible in *insert symbol*
dialog such that I can assign a shortcut key to it, instead of typing, say
E000 and Alt+X?
iii. when I try to print my document to PDF, my very special symbols are
not
converted to PDF. There are simply blank spaces there. Is there any way
around it?
iv. Any relevant comments on using special symbols, characters etc. and/or
refs to articles on the subject would be of help.

--
JanAdam


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