Bob,
Thank you so much for this, your answer opened up several new areas that I
hadn't thought to explore. Unfortunately, I still can't solve the problem.
The site from which I downloaded both the font and the template is:
http://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/..._unicode_font/
The template did not come with Gentium as the default font, but I changed
that and re-saved the template. The template was designed mainly to have the
shortcut keys programmed that are needed to display commonly-used diacritics.
Gentium is displayed in the font applet, and when I checked Font
Substitution, Windows said that it did not need to substitute any fonts.
My enabled editing languages no longer include the asian ones that I think
may have started the trouble. I have Arabic, English, Spanish, and French.
There are no language-related items in my Add-ins.
I still need to explore keyboard shortcuts. To do this I think I need to go
into Symbols and confirm or re-program my expected shortcuts.
I also played around with Styles a little. When I ask to reveal formatting,
Word is only seeing Gentium, even when it is actually Simsun in my document.
When I ask to compare styles with one letter in Gentium and one in Simsun, it
tells me there is no difference between the selections. Also when I type a
'word' of all u's with overlines for example, then press enter, Word
autocorrects the word to be capitalized -- and that first capital letter
turns to Gentium. But if I type the captal U with overline, I get a font
called MS Mincho. Unlike the difference between Simsun and Gentium, Style
Inspector is recognizing a difference between MS Mincho and Gentium, but I
can't get it to change back to typing Gentium by making Gentium the default
again in style inspector. If I select the affected area in the document and
select Gentium, it will all turn to proper gentium.
I have now gone into Symbols and programmed the shortcut key for A with
overline to be alt+A, which is what the template has programmed already
(although this didn't show up in symbols -- it said that symbol had no
current keys and that alt+A was unassigned). There was not an option to
associate Gentium with this shortcut. My first a-overline came out gentium,
the next few came out Simsun. Reveal Formatting still claims these are all
gentium and that my default is gentium.
Is it strange that when I make changes in shortcut keys or the default font
in styles, I am asked if I want this to be the default for all documents
created with the Normal template? I am supposed to be in the Diacritics.dot
template, but this doesn't show up.
Now many of my diacritics are coming out right, but in some areas I was
getting yet another font, Tahoma, for my d-underdots.
Something is still very strange. I am less panicked now, because even if
everything looks wrong when I type it I can keep highlighting and making it
gentium again. But this really should not be necessary and it makes me
uneasy with integrity and reliability of the whole document.
Thank you again for your suggestions, I really appreciate it.
Josiehen
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josiehen