Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!dana From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Word 4 and the "For All" symbol Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 91 16:47:07 GMT References: <17956@brahms.udel.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 28 mchupa@brahms.udel.edu (Michael A Chupa) writes: > There is an excellent INIT called PopChar, which makes using Symbol >(as well as Dingbat/Picture fonts) much less problematic; my typical use >with Symbol is to select a blank space I've typed in the normal font, typing >command-option-Q to change the space into the Symbol font, and then pulling >down the PopChar keymap to the desired character. If there are normally >formatted spaces or characters following the one just changed, you're done; >otherwise, you should type a command-shift-spacebar to reenter the normal >font. I second your enthusiasm for PopChar, it's great! But I'm confused by your description of using it in Word; the way you describe it working with the command-shift-Q shortcut is quite different from the way it works for me. When I use the command-shift-Q feature of Word, it changes the next character typed to Symbol font and then goes back to the normal font for the following character. There is no need to use command-shift-spacebar after command-shift-Q. Since Word is not changing the current font with command-shift-Q, the Symbol font does not get checked in the font menu and therefore PopChar (which reads the checked font in the font menu to decide which font to display when you call it up) still displays whatever is the regular font being used. The way it works for me is that in order to get PopChar to display Symbol font when I call it up I have to change the font to Symbol using either the keyboard command command-shift-E (and then typing "Sym...") or choosing Symbol from the font menu. In this case it is necessary to use command-shift-spacebar to get back to the regular font. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu