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Overstrike not working
You actually don't need an overstrike field for this character. Instead,
insert Unicode glyph 0113 (Latin small letter e with macron), then 0301 (combining acute accent). This will actually look better than your scanned example. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kuko" wrote in message ... Hi. I don't if this is the right newsgroup for this, but anyway... I need to transcribe some greek words, and I want to combine two characters from Times New Roman. I know that there are fonts which have that particular character, but I want it on TNR. The character is an "e" with a dash over it then an accent over it. I scanned it from a book. You can see the scan with the character I'm trying to combine with the accent at the following URL: http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/6634/psiche3us.png I'm trying to do it as described at http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/Overbar.htm The problem is that the overstrike doesn't work, no matter which characters I'm trying to combine. I insert the field then select Equations and the "\o (a,b)" thing ('a' and 'b' being mere examples), then when I switch off the field view in the document, Word displays "a,b" instead of combining the characters. The "a,b" string is grayed, so it continues being a field. I'm using Word from Office 2000 Premium, if it matters (I have Office XP, but I prefer Office 2000 because of the silly look of Office XP). So what is happening? Why is Word refusing tot combine the characters? TIA |
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Alt+0xxx works only for ASCII characters. Unicode characters (anything above
0255) must be inserted a different way. You can insert them from the Insert Symbol dialog or using 0113, Alt+X, and 0301, Alt+X. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm Without seeing the syntax of the EQ \o field you're actually using, I can't tell you why it's not working, but if you're in Europe, you may need to use a semicolon between the characters instead of a comma. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kuko" wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:36:43 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You actually don't need an overstrike field for this character. Instead, insert Unicode glyph 0113 (Latin small letter e with macron), then 0301 (combining acute accent). This will actually look better than your scanned example. Thank you for your reply, Suzanne. I'm afraid I don't know how to do what you describe. I tried typing "Alt+0113" and got a "q", and with "Alt+0301" I've got a "-". How can I insert such glyphs? I like this solution better than the overstrike field one, but anyway, why dos overstrike field doesn't work in my Word? TIA |
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Yes, I believe the Alt+X shortcut was introduced in Word 2002, and
unfortunately Word's Help on fields (or generally) is not always outstanding even in the English-language version; translated versions suffer even more from being rushed into production. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Kuko" wrote in message ... On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:30:14 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Alt+0xxx works only for ASCII characters. Unicode characters (anything above 0255) must be inserted a different way. You can insert them from the Insert Symbol dialog or using 0113, Alt+X, and 0301, Alt+X. For more, see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm I've done it. Thank you very much. Very nice. The Alt-X thing doesn't work. The text on the URL you provided talks about Word 2002, so I guess my Word 2000 can't do it. Anyway, I'm quite happy. Thanks, again. Without seeing the syntax of the EQ \o field you're actually using, I can't tell you why it's not working, but if you're in Europe, you may need to use a semicolon between the characters instead of a comma. Yes. That was the problem. I'm using the spanish version of Office 2000. The help about the \o switch, however, still talks about commas, not semicolons. This may be a mistake. Regards. |
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