On Monday 21 August 2006 19:50, Larry Gusaas wrote: > After inserting the correct diacritecs, using Insert/Special Character, > into a document I decided to change fonts by using the stylist. It did not > change the font used for the diacritics. I did not discover this until I > printed the whole document, wasting a bunch of paper. Why does inserting a > special character lock that character to the font being used and not allow > the parafraph style in stylists to change this? It is very inconvenient and > time consuming to have to go back and do this manually.
There are two completely different requirements people have of Insert->Special Character. One is to insert truly different characters (like math symbols) where it is essential to keep the font as defined for the character as it may be available only on a few fonts. And the other is to add diacritics, as you are doing. Font information is held with the character, and the paragraph font defines the default for the paragraph. As you have discovered, Insert->Spec adds the font info to the inserted character, and so is separated from the paragraph default. To merge them again, you can highlight the whole paragraph (4 quick clicks with cursor in the para) and set the font. Then you can change the para style font and it will apply to them all again. Personally, I always add diacritics directly from the keyboard where it will pick up the font info from the current style. I insert math symbols from the Insert->Spec menu. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
