I just discovered that OOo 3.01 (Intrepid) cannot print characters ESC5 through ESF1 (hex). I suspect it probably can't print the whole block, but those are the only ones I tried. I was printing to a PostScript level 3 printer (genuine Adobe).
Is there a limitation on which blocks and planes OOo can print? As an alternative, I could use combining diacriticals. The above characters include specially composed glyphs which already have the diacritical. For example, ESC5 is a voiceless m, ESC7 is a syllabic m, and so on. "Voiceless" means there is a little circle under the character, and "syllabic" means there is a little upright line under the character. The reason the specially composed characters are desirable is because getting the diacritic centered under the character is difficult, if even possible. (Adobe InDesign does it with a script.) What I mean about centering the diacritical under the character is that combining diacriticals are designed to overlay the character. That is, the diacritical symbol is to the left of its drawing box. Unfortunately, there is only one diacritical symbol, so the font designer had to position the diacritical symbol arbitrarily to be centered under the majority of letters. That means that when you put the diacritical symbol under an m it appears almost flush with the right edge of the letter. This is very mucho muy ugly. I could overcome the problem if I could figure out how to kern the diacritical symbol so that it appears centered under the letter, but everything I have tried has not produced the desired results. Any suggestions welcome. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
