dlugose@uncecs.edu (Dan Dlugose) (05/02/90)
In article <1389@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld01.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Lawrence Haferman) writes: >by typing option-c. I have a person's name who has what looks >like a cedilla beneath an 's'. I can come pretty close to >getting what I want by using the Word overstrike \o(s,\,) >method. Is there a font that might have this weird construction Try International fonts, specifically Int. Roman Font. This font not only has a large number of accent marks for dozens of languages, but they can all be typed above or below any character, regardless of height or width. I don't know if this character is indeed a cedilla, but there is one. The font can be distributed freely; it is on the Educorp CD ROM, or by mail from Dr. Paul Rapoport International Fonts 7 Cradock Court Ancaster Ontario L9G 3Z5 Canada I'm willing to BinHex and email the font to a few people. Dan Dlugose UNC Educational Computing Service -- Dan Dlugose Internet: dlugose@uncecs.edu UNC Educational Computing Service Box 12035, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2035
john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew) (05/04/90)
In <1389@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_eld01.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeffrey Lawrence Haferman) writes: >The system manual says you can have a "cedilla" under a "c" >by typing option-c. I have a person's name who has what looks >like a cedilla beneath an 's'. I can come pretty close to >getting what I want by using the Word overstrike \o(s,\,) >method. Is there a font that might have this weird construction >built in? Does anyone know what this diacritic is called? I suspect that the diacritical mark in question is an ogonek and not a cedilla. In either case, you can get a diacritical mark by itself by looking up the character in Appendix D of the Word 4 manual. Some characters can be entered from the keyboard with appropriate combinations of modifier keys - see the Key Caps DA. Others can be entered using the Word command "Paste Special Character", bound by default to Command- Option-Q. Here is a list of Mac numeric character codes and (PostScript) character names: 171 acute 250 dotaccent 172 dieresis 251 ring 246 circumflex 252 cedilla 247 tilde 253 hungarumlaut 248 macron 254 ogonek 249 breve 255 caron The above characters should be available in most if not all bitmap versions of PostScript typefaces. They may not be available in older bitmap-only fonts (e.g. Chicago, Geneva). If you need special characters in a bitmap font, they are easy to create using a font editor such as Fontastic. John -- john j. chew, iii phone: +1 416 425 3818 AppleLink: CDA0329 trigraph, inc., toronto, canada {uunet!utai!utcsri,utgpu,utzoo}!trigraph!john dept. of math., u. of toronto poslfit@{utorgpu.bitnet,gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca}