Maridonna wrote:
Hello,
I downloaded OpenOffice yesterday. :) I searched the support web pages
to find out if Base allows the use of two fonts. I need one Base field
of the table to be a Coptic language font and the other fields in English.
Can a second font be added? If so how can it be done?
I use MS Vista Home.
Thank you so much.
Hello Maridonna,
Just to be sure we are talking Apples and Oranges -
To a database table, meaning the storage area, there is no font, there
is a character set and a collation order. A default Base database uses
UTF-8 for the character set and the system locale setting for collation
order in use when the database was created. Both settings are database
wide in scope. Both settings can be changed from the default - ONLY - if
the database is new and empty of data.
For output purposes:
Forms: All controls have a font property, including "Table Grid"
controls. So two "Text Box" controls placed on a form can have separate
font settings. A "Table Grid" control made up of 2 columns, each of
which which are "Text Box" controls, has a font setting that overrides
the individual column controls.
In the Base document "Tables" section when you open a table for viewing
( by double clicking a table name for instance ) this is a grid. You can
set the font therefore only for display as a whole. Same is true for
Queries.
Reports: In reports each column can have a separate font setting.
So - creating a single record form that displays data from individual
fields in the table using separate fonts is easy.
It is also possible to have 2 (or more) Table Grid controls on a single
form. Each could for instance display a different column from a common
table. Each grid control could have a separate font - you would need a
small basic script to keep the display of the two grids in synch as you
scrolled either however.
I HTH
Drew
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