Hey there Vadose,
Back in the day, fonts had to do their thing with a maximum of 256
characters in a font (8-bit fonts). Fonts had mappings based on their
encoding. Some encodings were standardized, such as Times-Roman
(Latin), Symbol, and Dingbats. When 16-bit fonts were introduced, that
increased the maximum to 65K characters per font, though a font might
use only a few thousand (or much less) of those characters. Other
encodings were introduced, but finally Unicode came around, which
provided a standard "everyone" agreed to.
So, what does that mean in the real world? That means that fonts that
have been around a while, like Symbol and Euclid Symbol, still have
the old character mappings, BUT that doesn't necessarily mean they
can't be used side-by-side with newer 16-bit Unicode fonts. Let's take
for example the Greek lower-case pi character. Its Unicode "code
point" is 03C0. If you look at the character mapping in the Times New
Roman Unicode font (TNRU), pi is also in the position 03C0 within the
font.
In both Euclid Symbol and Symbol fonts, pi is in character position
70. The character in position 70 in TNRU is the lower-case p. So, if
you have a typed "p" in your document in TNRU, then you select the p
and switch to either Euclid Symbol or Symbol, the character should
change to the pi symbol. Clearly this will not work for every symbol,
and this may be the problem you're having.
Another cause of it could be if your organization has special macros
attached to Word's default template (or other template, if you're not
using the default), and the macros prevent you from arbitrarily
switching from one font to another. If, on the other hand, you had a
Word style that was set to the font you need for these symbols, this
may be allowed. I know of at least one organization that is so strict
about use of styles in Word that the font selection box is disabled.
Hope this has been of some help.
--
Bob Mathews
Director of Training
Design Science, Inc.
bobm at dessci.com
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On 10-Feb-2010, Vadose wrote:
Not sure. It is a font created for MathType by its developer Design
Science.
"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
Is Euclid Symbol a font following the Unicode coding for
mathematical
characters (as in, for instance, Cambria Math), or is it an older
font
based on the Symbol font?
Symbol font somehow violates Unicode coding and doesn't interact
well
with other fonts.
On Feb 9, 3:13 pm, Vadose
wrote:
I am editing in Word 2007, and sometimes need to override the
paragraph font
for certain math characters. The paragraph font is Times New
Roman; the new
font I want to introduce is Euclid Symbol. When I highlight the
character and
change the font, it does not stay but reverts to the paragraph
font. When I
delete the character, choose a font, and type the desired
character, it will
stay momentarily, but will frequently be replaced by a box when
I scroll back
up later.
We use these fonts to match our styles in our layout program.
This is why I
am not using the usual Insert command.