Unicode and Zapfino

[Jeffrey Shaw]

I just bought Office:Mac 2004 because I thought it had Unicode support.
However, I cannot find out how to switch on the mutivarious ligatures of the
Apple font Zapfino (such as ff, ll st) which appear automatically in Apple's
TextEdit. This is a major deal-breaker for me if it can't be done. Does
anyone know more about this?

Thanks,

Jeff Shaw

 

[John McGhie]

Word 2004 does have Unicode Support: everything Apple's ATSUI API brings us.
As far as I know, the only parts missing are the Right-To-Left features.

Display your Character Palette, and set it to Glyph mode. I don't have
fonts with any more than the Fi and Fl ligatures in them, but I was able to
insert these from the Character Palette into Word.
Having inserted them, you would create an AutoText out of each one and
assign it a keystroke for ease of use.

You could also look up " Field codes: Symbol field" in the Help. This says
it will insert a character from the Macintosh character set if you know its
character number. I hope that's a misprint: on the PC, it will allow you to
insert any character code you know.

Word 2004 does not support hexadecimal input the way PC Word does, because
it doesn't need to: if you get really stuck, you can bring up the Unicode
Extended Hex Input keyboard from Character Palette and insert the characters
directly in hexadecimal. (At least: If it's in Word 2004, I can't find it.
On the PC, it's Alt + X (type the four-digit Unicode character number then
Alt + X to convert. I can't find it in Word 2004, which doesn't mean it's
not there...)

Hope this helps

I just bought Office:Mac 2004 because I thought it had Unicode support.
However, I cannot find out how to switch on the mutivarious ligatures of the
Apple font Zapfino (such as ff, ll st) which appear automatically in Apple's
TextEdit. This is a major deal-breaker for me if it can't be done. Does
anyone know more about this?

Thanks,

Jeff Shaw

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[Robert]

Word 2004 does have Unicode Support: everything Apple's ATSUI API brings us.
As far as I know, the only parts missing are the Right-To-Left features.

Display your Character Palette, and set it to Glyph mode.
......

Character Palette??

Robert

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

Character Palette??

In MacOS X 10.3 (translating from French)
System preferences:International:Input
and select the character palette there. You should get a new menu inthe menu
bar that allows you to display (and use) the character palette.

Corentin

 

[John McGhie]

Yes. Look it up in the Mac Help. Its location varies a little depending on
which OS you are using. On my system, it's on the menu under the Australian
flag beside the battery indicator...

Character Palette??

Robert

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[Paul Berkowitz]

You don't get that menu until you go to System
Preferences/International/Input Menu. That's where you choose Character
Palette, any language's keyboard you want, and the all-important checkbox at
the bottom to Show Input menu in menu bar. That's in Panther. In Jaguar, the
tab is called Keyboard Menu in System Prefs/International .

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