Change Phonetic Guide font

[Tobias Weber]

Hi,
a Japanese document uses the Normal style. When I change its font the
phonetic guide stuff stays unchanged. How do I adjust the font of all
phonetic guide instances?

BTW funny story: I've been using Japanese with Word X for years with the
default font. After installing 2008 all my documents looked different!
Then I found out that I had not installed said default font with v. X,
so all those years Word had silently substituted one that comes with the
OS...

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Tobias:

Sorry, I know I should know the answer to this, but I DON'T.

Have you asked in the Japanese group?

Cheers

Hi,
a Japanese document uses the Normal style. When I change its font the
phonetic guide stuff stays unchanged. How do I adjust the font of all
phonetic guide instances?

BTW funny story: I've been using Japanese with Word X for years with the
default font. After installing 2008 all my documents looked different!
Then I found out that I had not installed said default font with v. X,
so all those years Word had silently substituted one that comes with the
OS...

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Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
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[Tobias Weber]

Sorry, I know I should know the answer to this, but I DON'T.

This sounds meaningful, but eludes me ^^;

Have you asked in the Japanese group?

microsoft.public.jp.office.mac? It's practically dead. And that I use
Word to type in Japanese does not mean I can express myself sufficiently
:-(

 

[Tobias Weber]

phonetic guide stuff stays unchanged. How do I adjust the font of all
phonetic guide instances?

Since they are just fields I was able to display the code and do search
& replace on it. Now the code looks exactly (even wide spaces in
Japanese font name) like after changing it through the GUI. And doesn't
change presentation one bit...
I tried unlocking and updating fields to no avail.

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Tobias:

It wasn't at all meaningful... I should know the answer to it, and I still
don't.

Generally, we have a problem with the document language following the
keyboard setting when you switch. That is not impressing the European
Language people

I am going to take some wild guesses:

1) When you switch to Kana, the font should automatically switche to a
Unicode font that contains the characters you need.

2) Chances are they do this by applying a Character style.

Have you checked to see what the paragraph and character styles are that are
in use?

Sorry to be useless

This sounds meaningful, but eludes me ^^;


microsoft.public.jp.office.mac? It's practically dead. And that I use
Word to type in Japanese does not mean I can express myself sufficiently
:-(

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Sydney, Australia. S33°53'34.20 E151°14'54.50
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]

 

[Tobias Weber]

Generally, we have a problem with the document language following the
keyboard setting when you switch. That is not impressing the European

Not here. Everything works fine. I just want to change 20 old .doc from
one Japanese font to a better looking Japanese font, and unfortunately
the Phonetic Guide (I'll just call them ruby from now) stay in the old
font.

 

[mlewanfr]

Since they are just fields I was able to display the code and do search
& replace on it. Now the code looks exactly (even wide spaces in
Japanese font name) like after changing it through the GUI. And doesn't
change presentation one bit...
I tried unlocking and updating fields to no avail.

That was the solution I was recommended when I asked a similar
question for Word 2004. It is not very elegant, and you say that it
does not work in 2008?

If the field codes look right, it seems like something is cached in
the doc. Try to "clean it up" by saving it to docx or doc or rtf and
reopen it and see if that changes anything.

Cheers
Magnus

 

[Tobias Weber]

the doc. Try to "clean it up" by saving it to docx or doc or rtf and
reopen it and see if that changes anything.

I tried Save As without format change before and it didn't help. Saving
to docx (which I won't call Open XML) did.