I would like to find a character (in any installable font or, alternatively, a technique) to render the Orthodox Union kosher OU symbol — i.e., U completely encircled a la the copyright symbol © or registered symbol® in Word and in Entourage.
Any ideas?
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Sam Bays
From: Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:24:43 +0000
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About the only way to get Unicode into an entourage message window is toi use the Apple Character Palette. This is the palette that appears when you select ‘Special Characters...’ from the Edit menu in the Finder or other cocoa apps. Once it is displayed, you can switch back to entourage easily and still used the palette. Alternatively, if you have the keyboard selection icon displayed in the top right hand side of the menubar (it looks like a flag of your selected Keyboard country settings) then you can choose ‘Show Character Palette’ from that menu without leaving Entourage.
Once in the palette, type ‘fraction’ into the search box at the bottom and a list of the fraction glyphs available will pop up. Either double-click on them, or hit the insert button to put them into the entourage message at the cursor position.
Now, this is a pain to do every time, isn’t it?
So, use the ‘autocorrect’ feature on Entourage to set up some shortcuts for your commonly used fractions. For example, if I type ‘f12’, I will get the symbol ‘½’ inserted into my message. Why ‘f12’? You ask? That is because the autocorrect in entourage is not as smart as the one in Word, even though they share the same list of entries. In word, you could set up an entry so that typing ‘1/2’ would correct to ½ no problem, but in entourage the ‘/’ (or any other punctuation character) is recognised as a word boundary and stops the autocorrect from working. So, I set up other shortcuts with ‘f’ for fraction, and have f12, f13, f14, f34, f23 all give their respective fraction glyphs. If you use others, you can set them up in the same way. All the fractions in halves, thirds, quarters, fifths and eights are available as single glyphs. Other fractions can be built from the numerator, denominator and slash Unicode characters, but still put into autocorrect entries in just the same way.
To create the autocorrect entry, select a glyph you entered into a message the long-winded way (the fractions listed in the quoted text below will do for some entries), copy it and then select ‘autocorrect...’ from the ‘tools’ menu. Type ‘f12' in the ‘Replace’ box and paste the ½ character in the ‘with’ box. Now click the ‘add’ button. Do the same for any other fractions you use on a regular basis. Now, any time you type f13 you should get ⅓ etc. You can, of course, use anything you like as the trigger text instead of f12, so long as it doesn’t contain any ‘word boundary’ characters.
What, I hear you say, if I want to type f13? In that case, immediately after the autocorrect entry changes the character, press cmd-Z (for undo) and your f13 text will be restored (thankfully, or I would have had a hard time typing this message!).
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Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
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On 1/11/05 03:44, "John Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Barry they look just what I need. HOW do I get to be able to use them in an outgoing message
TIA
John Holt
From: Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:47:35 +0000
To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]>
Conversation: Only slightly off topic!!
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On 31/10/05 22:35, "John Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all, does any one know of a good fractional font that works well with Ent. V.11.2.0
I have been advised to stay away from Helvetica Fractions!!!!!
Any feedback would be appreciated.
Regards,
John Holt.
How many fractions do you need? There are a few in Unicode, which Entourage handles beautifully:
These are single characters:
½, ⅓, ¼, ⅔, ¾
Or, you can mix & match:
¹⁄₅, ²²⁄₇, ⁵⁶⁄₆₉, etc
