Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-20 Thread Gregg Dinse
Hi Steve, Thanks for the information, especially about 0370 Greek and Coptic. Also, I did not even know about the third and fourth panes in the Character Viewer. By default, at least on my system, I saw the first and second panes, but after you mentioned the fourth pane, I looked at the

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-20 Thread Macs R We
On Apr 20, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Gregg Dinse wrote: Also, thanks for the tip about Keyboard and Character Viewers. While we're on that subject... Back in the Classic OS days, I used to use an init called PopChar for special characters. One of its endearing features is that not only would it

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-20 Thread Nathan Sims
On Apr 20, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Macs R We wrote: On Apr 20, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Gregg Dinse wrote: Also, thanks for the tip about Keyboard and Character Viewers. While we're on that subject... Back in the Classic OS days, I used to use an init called PopChar for special characters. One

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-20 Thread Macs R We
On Apr 20, 2011, at 11:38 AM, st...@paper-ape.com wrote: On 2011-04-20 12:11 , Macs R We wrote: In OS X, PopChar stopped working, try PopChar X, it's been around for years; built-in Keyboard Viewer is pretty useful too for learning the shortcuts Keyboard Viewer is really deficient for

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-20 Thread Macs R We
On Apr 20, 2011, at 12:17 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: Have you checked out the CharacterPal widget? I'll check it out. I do have Symbol Caddy, which is great at what it does (like Character Viewer but faster and better organized, and also does HTML specials), but it also doesn't teach you the

Re: ¨ (was why does the Symbol font not work?)

2011-04-20 Thread steve
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why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-19 Thread Gregg Dinse
Hi, I need to create a document with some Greek symbols. I can do this in Word, but not in other applications (e.g., TextEdit and Create). I bring up the font panel in these other apps and it shows Symbol in the list, but when I click on it, I do not get a symbol (i.e., p does not change to

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-19 Thread steve
On 2011-04-19 19:29 , Gregg Dinse wrote: Hi, I need to create a document with some Greek symbols. I can do this in Word, but not in other applications (e.g., TextEdit and Create). I bring up the font panel in these other apps and it shows Symbol in the list, but when I click on it, I do not get

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-19 Thread Gregg Dinse
Hi Steve, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Most of this is over my head, but the bottom line is: what do I need to do to be able to display pi rather than p? I'm sure these are dumb questions, but why does the font panel (say in TextEdit, for example), show Symbol as a choice if it

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-19 Thread David Patrick Henderson
On 19 Apr 2011, at 19:08, Gregg Dinse wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. Most of this is over my head, but the bottom line is: what do I need to do to be able to display pi rather than p”? The short answer is Option-p will input the character π; however, for

Re: why does the Symbol font not work?

2011-04-19 Thread st...@paper-ape.com
On 2011-04-19 21:30 , David Patrick Henderson wrote: The short answer is Option-p will input the character π; yeah, and in case it wasn't clear, don't change the font -- many Unicode fonts have a pi glyph built-in, so you don't need Symbol; e.g. Lucida Grande, Arial, even Comic Sans ;? so