Hi,
If you are working in Word, type the two characters one after the other. Then
select to the first, go to FontCharacterSpacingCondensed and choose an amount
(eg 12pt) to match the character size.
There are other Unicode characters which effectively give a backspace(or zero
character
It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them.There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining Diacritical Marks" which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82
Of course, the better way to do it would be to generate it as a vector graphic:
Characters.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
This is done in the following steps:In your graphics application of choice, type a text block "127°.42"Convert the text block to an outlineExplode the outline into
On 06/07/2013 8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright
wrote:
It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very
much on the application used to render them.
There are a block of unicode characters called "Combining
Good call, Steve!
With that in hand, you can easily (under Windows) enter both marks directly
from the keyboard.
There is a means (perhaps not well known) supported by most MS and many non-MS
programs, to enter any Unicode character.
Using the numeric keypad (NOT the top row of numbers
Interesting Thanks Steve and Dave.
I use the Alt codes all the time for degrees, Greek and accents in Word. But my
version of Word and my email program doesn't do the Com Dot trick. WordPad does.
While you are looking at System Tools for the Character Map or Notepad, try the
scientific
I've been holding back on adding to the flood on notes about Unicode
methods for introducing degree and other symbols into e-mail and
documents. But, not having seen this, there are a number of
websites that have tables of Unicode symbols that can be inserted
with the
“While you are looking at System Tools for the Character Map or Notepad, try
the scientific calculator. Use the Dec and Hex buttons to toggle back and forth
between decimal and hexadecimal numbers.”
Yup. Left as an exercise for the student… :{)
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From: Roger Bailey
