On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 John Kiltinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here's the scenario. I have a stack that displays an online copy of a
> mathematics article. It uses a few characters from the extended character
> set. The triple-dot ellipsis character is one of them. I've been doing my
> development on a Mac and building standalones of intermediate versions on
> the platform of deployment, i.e., Mac standalone built on the Mac and
> Windows standalone built on a Windows computer. All the special characters
> display properly in both the stack versions and the standalones.
>
> Then at one point I had a lapse of judgement and did some upgrades on the
> Windows computer and then brought the stack back to the Mac. [ :-) I
> confess, I'm a Mac diehard.] The extended set characters still display
> properly on the Mac in the stack version. However when I build the Mac
> standalone, the characters no longer display properly. There is the
> typical mismapping that one sees with word processing documents moved
> between platforms.
>
> Anyone ever had this problem? Is there an easy (or not) workaround? (Of
> course I could dumb down the character set I use by replacing the ellipsis
> by three periods but it would be nice to know how to work with the extended
> character set.)
>
> By the way, the article makes use of the symbol font, and the display of
> symbols has been accurate throughout these moves between platforms.
I'm not sure I follow this completely (I don't see how a standalone
could work any differently than a stack, for example), but one thing
did jump out at me: if you use any characters from the Symbol font
other than those in the standard ASCII values (32-127), they'll get
translated when you move between platforms. This means you'll have to
keep track of where these symbols are used and manually translate them
back on one of the platforms (use the MacToISO or ISOToMac
functions). As for your other problems, the only thing I can suggest
is to try saving the stack once on the target platform before building
a standalone with it. There is also a minor performance benefit (a
few percent) associated with doing this because the translation
doesn't have to be done each time the stack is opened.
Regards,
Scott
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