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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
I am trying to insert a ligature tie bar below two characters. The unicode
character 035C is the proper code to do so according to the unicode chart, but when I type the 035C between the two letters, select it and type ALT x, I get an empty box. I am using Word 2007 on Windows XP. Any way to get this character? |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
Type the first letter, then press the space bar, the type 035c (using the
numeric keypad), then press Alt+x, then type the second letter. The important thing is to have the space before the 035c, otherwise the Alt+x attempts to convert the first letter plus the 035c and that is what is giving you the empty box, or here, it gives me a box with a ? in it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Pamela Case" wrote in message ... I am trying to insert a ligature tie bar below two characters. The unicode character 035C is the proper code to do so according to the unicode chart, but when I type the 035C between the two letters, select it and type ALT x, I get an empty box. I am using Word 2007 on Windows XP. Any way to get this character? |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
I used to insert the tie simply by clicking on it in Insert Symbol,
but then I made a keyboard shortcut and don't have a problem either way. To use the Alt-X Unicode codes, don't select the four digits, just type the four digits (on the regular keyboard) and then Alt-X. On Nov 14, 4:46*pm, Pamela Case wrote: I am trying to insert a ligature tie bar below two characters. The unicode character 035C is the proper code to do so according to the unicode chart, but when I type the 035C between the two letters, select it and type ALT x, I get an empty box. I am using Word 2007 on Windows XP. Any way to get this character? |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
Alt-X will only try to convert a sequence of five digits if the first
one is 1 (and also a range beginning with 2F and something called "tags" beginning with E0.) On Nov 14, 6:41*pm, "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Type the first letter, then press the space bar, the type 035c (using the numeric keypad), then press Alt+x, then type the second letter. The important thing is to have the space before the 035c, otherwise the Alt+x attempts to convert the first letter plus the 035c and that is what is giving you the empty box, or here, it gives me a box with a ? in it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Pamela Case" wrote in message ... I am trying to insert a ligature tie bar below two characters. The unicode character 035C is the proper code to do so according to the unicode chart, but when I type the 035C between the two letters, select it and type ALT x, I get an empty box. I am using Word 2007 on Windows XP. Any way to get this character?- |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
When I type a 035cALT-xi using the numeric keypad, I get an a followed by a
space and an empty box. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Type the first letter, then press the space bar, the type 035c (using the numeric keypad), then press Alt+x, then type the second letter. The important thing is to have the space before the 035c, otherwise the Alt+x attempts to convert the first letter plus the 035c and that is what is giving you the empty box, or here, it gives me a box with a ? in it. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Pamela Case" wrote in message ... I am trying to insert a ligature tie bar below two characters. The unicode character 035C is the proper code to do so according to the unicode chart, but when I type the 035C between the two letters, select it and type ALT x, I get an empty box. I am using Word 2007 on Windows XP. Any way to get this character? |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
"Pamela Case" wrote:
When I type a 035cALT-xi using the numeric keypad, I get an a followed by a space and an empty box. The code you're using seems to be wrong. Try the "undertie" 203F ... Does that work? Regards, Klaus |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
035c
The code you're using seems to be wrong. I see it's a new diacritic in Unicode Version 5, and wasn't in previous versions. It does not add any space (as the undertie does). The fonts MS supplies with Office (as far as I know) are still only supporting Unicode Version 2, back from 1996. I haven't seen updates to fonts in 1999 (Version 3), 2003 (Version 4) or 2006 (Version 5), though I keep hoping for them every time a new version of Office or Windows appears. The undertie in Arial Unicode MS is very wide, too... I usually use other fonts such as Charis SIL if I need it (say for phonetics). If you want to have it take up no space at all (as U+035C would), you'd need to fudge that (perhaps with character spacing or ADVANCE fields). Klaus |
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On Nov 20, 5:29*am, "Klaus Linke" wrote:
035c The code you're using seems to be wrong. I see it's a new diacritic in Unicode Version 5, and wasn't in previous versions. It does not add any space (as the undertie does). The fonts MS supplies with Office (as far as I know) are still only supporting Unicode Version 2, back from 1996. I haven't seen updates to fonts in 1999 (Version 3), 2003 (Version 4) or 2006 (Version 5), though I keep hoping for them every time a new version of Office or Windows appears. I have no problem whatsoever with this character (Vista/W2007). Windows XP could handle only Unicode 2.0, Windows Vista can handle Unicode 5.0. I have not yet heard whether Windows 7 handles Unicode 5.2. The undertie in Arial Unicode MS is very wide, too... I usually use other fonts such as Charis SIL if I need it (say for phonetics). If you want to have it take up no space at all (as U+035C would), you'd need to fudge that (perhaps with character spacing or ADVANCE fields). When authors send me a ms. with Charis SIL, I have to retype every phonetic character, as it's not Unicode-compliant. This is a sure source of errors. |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
Peter Daniels wrote:
I have no problem whatsoever with this character (Vista/W2007). Windows XP could handle only Unicode 2.0, Windows Vista can handle Unicode 5.0. Great... I haven't used Vista, but will be updating to Windows 7. When authors send me a ms. with Charis SIL, I have to retype every phonetic character, as it's not Unicode-compliant. This is a sure source of errors. You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. Klaus |
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On Nov 26, 6:17*pm, "Klaus Linke" wrote:
Peter Daniels wrote: I have no problem whatsoever with this character (Vista/W2007). Windows XP could handle only Unicode 2.0, Windows Vista can handle Unicode 5.0. Great... I haven't used Vista, but will be updating to Windows 7. When authors send me a ms. with Charis SIL, I have to retype every phonetic character, as it's not Unicode-compliant. This is a sure source of errors. You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a
perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). Klaus |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
On Dec 1, 11:25*am, "Klaus Linke" wrote:
You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't properly combine with everything I need to. So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining Diacritics work perfectly. (I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.) Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (.... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the range of fonts it includes. |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then
if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 11:25 am, "Klaus Linke" wrote: You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't properly combine with everything I need to. So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining Diacritics work perfectly. (I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.) Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the range of fonts it includes. |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution. I believe it is the
underlying OS which is responsible for the substitution. A Word document contains some information about each font it uses (panose1, pitch, font-family, ...). Past experiments led me to believe that when the font is not available, Word passes along the font-family of the missing font to the OS which then returns the 'base' font for that family. On Windows font fallbacks are stored somewhere in the registry and you can actually change them. I have no idea on how Word on Mac handles this issue. Yves "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 11:25 am, "Klaus Linke" wrote: You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't properly combine with everything I need to. So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining Diacritics work perfectly. (I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.) Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the range of fonts it includes. |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution.
Tools Optins Compatibility Font Substitution -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Yves Dhondt" wrote in message ... I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution. I believe it is the underlying OS which is responsible for the substitution. A Word document contains some information about each font it uses (panose1, pitch, font-family, ...). Past experiments led me to believe that when the font is not available, Word passes along the font-family of the missing font to the OS which then returns the 'base' font for that family. On Windows font fallbacks are stored somewhere in the registry and you can actually change them. I have no idea on how Word on Mac handles this issue. Yves "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 11:25 am, "Klaus Linke" wrote: You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't properly combine with everything I need to. So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining Diacritics work perfectly. (I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.) Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the range of fonts it includes. |
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(In 2007 it's way down somewhere in the Word Options -- as soon as I
discovered it I put it on the QAT, so I don't need to remember where to find it!) On Dec 2, 7:16*am, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution. Tools Optins Compatibility Font Substitution -- Enjoy, Tony *www.WordArticles.com "Yves Dhondt" wrote in message ... I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution. I believe it is the underlying OS which is responsible for the substitution. A Word document contains some information about each font it uses (panose1, pitch, font-family, ...). Past experiments led me to believe that when the font is not available, Word passes along the font-family of the missing font to the OS which then returns the 'base' font for that family. On Windows font fallbacks are stored somewhere in the registry and you can actually change them. I have no idea on how Word on Mac handles this issue. Yves "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message .... On Dec 1, 11:25 am, "Klaus Linke" wrote: You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't properly combine with everything I need to. So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining Diacritics work perfectly. (I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.) Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the range of fonts it includes.- |
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On Dec 2, 5:28*am, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com
wrote: No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. One thing I discovered by accident is that if you've selected a region with more than one font (most likely, this happens when I had put a diacritic from one old PostScript font onto a letter from a different PostScript font, over on the Mac) and type a replacement letter (I have keyboard shortcuts for just about every diacriticized letter I'll ever use), Word will insert the correct character -- in SimSun. (And SimSun isn't even my default font for Asian typography.) |
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How do I get a ligature tie bar below two characters?
Interesting. The way Word chooses fonts is (probably deliberately) not
properly documented but in the situation you describe, Word must choose a starting point somewhere (probably the first font in the range) and if that font is not flagged as containing the relevant glyph, Word then has to decide what Font to use and, IMHO, it really should first consider the default fonts in the current style (and maybe the other fonts in the replaced range, and, maybe, substitute fonts for them if they are not available) before falling back on some built-in default, although it rather sounds as though it doesn't (which, sadly, does not surprise me). -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Dec 2, 5:28 am, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. One thing I discovered by accident is that if you've selected a region with more than one font (most likely, this happens when I had put a diacritic from one old PostScript font onto a letter from a different PostScript font, over on the Mac) and type a replacement letter (I have keyboard shortcuts for just about every diacriticized letter I'll ever use), Word will insert the correct character -- in SimSun. (And SimSun isn't even my default font for Asian typography.) |
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In 2007 it's way down somewhere in the Word Options
Most things are :-( I'm unhappy to see that this situation hasn't improved in Word 2010. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... (In 2007 it's way down somewhere in the Word Options -- as soon as I discovered it I put it on the QAT, so I don't need to remember where to find it!) On Dec 2, 7:16 am, "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote: I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution. Tools Optins Compatibility Font Substitution -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Yves Dhondt" wrote in message ... I'm not sure Word contains logic for font substitution. I believe it is the underlying OS which is responsible for the substitution. A Word document contains some information about each font it uses (panose1, pitch, font-family, ...). Past experiments led me to believe that when the font is not available, Word passes along the font-family of the missing font to the OS which then returns the 'base' font for that family. On Windows font fallbacks are stored somewhere in the registry and you can actually change them. I have no idea on how Word on Mac handles this issue. Yves "Tony Jollans" My forename at my surname dot com wrote in message ... No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) Late to this thread, but .. I agree Word's decisions about Font Substitution seem to be - what's the polite word? - simplistic, and I don't believe they consider the characters used in the font, just the Font itself. But you can override them as you wish, so there shouldn't be a need for complicated editing, re-typing, whatever. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message ... On Dec 1, 11:25 am, "Klaus Linke" wrote: You're probably thinking of another font. Charis SIL is a perfectly fine Unicode font. "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Then why doesn't Font Substitution substitue the correct characters for it? You mean you don't have Charis SIL installed? Why should I? First I used Gentium, but unfortunately they haven't done the Phonetic Extensions yet, and their Combining Diacritics don't properly combine with everything I need to. So I use Times New Roman, whose phonetic characters look fine (they're what the International Phonetic Association uses in the IPA chart, and you can't get more official than that) and where the Combining Diacritics work perfectly. (I used to use Stone Phonetic on the Mac, which was a beautiful PostScript version of phonetic characters based on StoneITC.) Then font substitution could possibly choose some crazy symbol font as a substitute font, and mess things up. No; if the characters are encoded in the "IPA Extentions" range, then if I don't have the particular font, then Word will substitute Arial or Tahoma or Times New Roman (I see no principle in how Word chooses which font to use in substituting when several are available.) If you choose a sensible substitute font, everything should be fine. Or, since it comes for free, download Charis SIL. It looks better than fonts with the IPA characters that came with older Office or Windows versions (... I haven't checked Vista much, and Win7 not at all yet). I don't know about older PC versions. Just this morning I started setting up my new Windows 7 notebook -- I didn't think to look at the range of fonts it includes.- |
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