Recognise maths symbols in character range

[Phil Webb]

I'm working on some software which extracts text from Word documents. I need
to recognise and carry out some mapping when the author has used Symbols in
their text, but at the moment all symbols (or at least alpha, beta, gamma,
etc.) all return a char 40, an opening parenthesis, with a font Symbol.

Any ideas on how I can collect better information on the specific character
codes?

Thanks,
Phil Webb

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Phil,

I'm working on some software which extracts text from Word documents. I need
to recognise and carry out some mapping when the author has used Symbols in
their text, but at the moment all symbols (or at least alpha, beta, gamma,
etc.) all return a char 40, an opening parenthesis, with a font Symbol.

Any ideas on how I can collect better information on the specific character
codes?

Been a while since I worked with this. Some older versions of Word had
Support.dot and Macro.dot template add-ins, and these contained a tool for
finding symbols. They were open, so you could see the internal code, and that
had the key for "getting behind the symbol". Unfortunately, I can't remember
what that trick was...

But try asking in the word.vba.general newsgroup, someone there, who works with
text and symbols on a daily basis, probably knows. (I'm thinking about Klaus
Linke, in particular, but there are likely others.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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