Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
Liberation Mono also has some crisp line characters. steve On 21/01/18 13:54, Girvin Herr wrote: Greetings, Try Courier. It is a fixed font and my Insert > special character list has the characters you need listed near the bottom. HTH. Girvin Herr On 01/20/2018 02:33 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: Arial has a couple of problems, one-I understand it is a microsoft font, 2-it is a proportional font, 3- it is a sans serif font. How am I supposed to trnasfer the characters to my document? John On 01/20/2018 11:58 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Do you mean the characters a bit like below (if they show on the list) ╚ ═ ═╣ Insert, special character, arial, about 3/4 the way down. steve On 21/01/18 08:05, James Knott wrote: On 01/20/2018 12:56 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: I have a lot of forms created in WordStar using the line drawing characters in the IBM fixed font character set. I now need to create some of these forms in LO. Can't find a reference in the help dos. I haven't heard of those characters in a very long time. Does anyone still use them? BTW, it's been well over 20 years since I last saw Wordstar. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
Greetings, Try Courier. It is a fixed font and my Insert > special character list has the characters you need listed near the bottom. HTH. Girvin Herr On 01/20/2018 02:33 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: Arial has a couple of problems, one-I understand it is a microsoft font, 2-it is a proportional font, 3- it is a sans serif font. How am I supposed to trnasfer the characters to my document? John On 01/20/2018 11:58 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Do you mean the characters a bit like below (if they show on the list) ╚ ═ ═╣ Insert, special character, arial, about 3/4 the way down. steve On 21/01/18 08:05, James Knott wrote: On 01/20/2018 12:56 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: I have a lot of forms created in WordStar using the line drawing characters in the IBM fixed font character set. I now need to create some of these forms in LO. Can't find a reference in the help dos. I haven't heard of those characters in a very long time. Does anyone still use them? BTW, it's been well over 20 years since I last saw Wordstar. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
On 01/20/2018 07:05 PM, James Knott wrote: > BTW, it's been well over 20 years since I last saw Wordstar. But the WordStar Command Set lives on, in the minds of those who think GUIs are, by definition, user-hostile, and as such, a thing to abhorred, and as such, killed on sight. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
Arial has a couple of problems, one-I understand it is a microsoft font, 2-it is a proportional font, 3- it is a sans serif font. How am I supposed to trnasfer the characters to my document? John On 01/20/2018 11:58 AM, Steve Edmonds wrote: Do you mean the characters a bit like below (if they show on the list) ╚ ═ ═╣ Insert, special character, arial, about 3/4 the way down. steve On 21/01/18 08:05, James Knott wrote: On 01/20/2018 12:56 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: I have a lot of forms created in WordStar using the line drawing characters in the IBM fixed font character set. I now need to create some of these forms in LO. Can't find a reference in the help dos. I haven't heard of those characters in a very long time. Does anyone still use them? BTW, it's been well over 20 years since I last saw Wordstar. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
Do you mean the characters a bit like below (if they show on the list) ╚ ═ ═╣ Insert, special character, arial, about 3/4 the way down. steve On 21/01/18 08:05, James Knott wrote: On 01/20/2018 12:56 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: I have a lot of forms created in WordStar using the line drawing characters in the IBM fixed font character set. I now need to create some of these forms in LO. Can't find a reference in the help dos. I haven't heard of those characters in a very long time. Does anyone still use them? BTW, it's been well over 20 years since I last saw Wordstar. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
On 01/20/2018 12:56 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: > I have a lot of forms created in WordStar using the line drawing > characters in the IBM fixed font character set. I now need to create > some of these forms in LO. Can't find a reference in the help dos. I haven't heard of those characters in a very long time. Does anyone still use them? BTW, it's been well over 20 years since I last saw Wordstar. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Using the IBM line drawing set in Libreoffice
I have a lot of forms created in WordStar using the line drawing characters in the IBM fixed font character set. I now need to create some of these forms in LO. Can't find a reference in the help dos. Ideas? John -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
