https://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php?title=Problems_with_the_Symbol_font%2C_Greek_text%2C_or_bullets_in_Word_documents&limit=50&action=history&feed=atomProblems with the Symbol font, Greek text, or bullets in Word documents - Revision history2024-03-29T11:01:51ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.10.1https://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php?title=Problems_with_the_Symbol_font%2C_Greek_text%2C_or_bullets_in_Word_documents&diff=7188&oldid=prevJgd: botlangbar -> FR2006-11-15T10:02:18Z<p>botlangbar -> FR</p>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* NeoBugzilla [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=912 bug 912] and [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=747 bug 747] on import of OpenOffice.org for Windows and Word documents</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">* NeoBugzilla [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=912 bug 912] and [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=747 bug 747] on import of OpenOffice.org for Windows and Word documents</td></tr>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">To enter Greek text in Mac OS X (including in NeoOffice), either switch to the Greek keyboard layout or use the system Character Palette. Both can be accessible under the "Flag" menu in your menu bar, which in turn is enabled in the '''Input Menu''' tab of the '''International Pane''' of the Mac OS X System Preferences. Simply check the boxes next to the keyboard layouts or input methods you wish to enable, and check "Show input menu in menu bar" to enable the "Flag" menu for easy switching between layouts. <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Note: if you use the </del>Greek <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">keyboard layout as your method of inputting characters, you will need to type them in using Arial or Times New Roman as the font </del>for <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the characters to appear correctly in </del>Word 2004<del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. There may </del>be <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">other </del>compatible <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fonts but Arial and Times New Roman tend to contain the most glyphs of the fonts installed on Macs and other fonts, e.g. Futura and Gill Sans, will produce characters that </del>Word 2004 <del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">can't display. If you forget to do this, you will see blocks in place of characters when you view the file in Word 2004. You can solve this simply by selecting the blocks and picking Arial or Times New Roman as the font type. This will cause the correct characters to be displayed</del>.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">To enter Greek text in Mac OS X (including in NeoOffice), either switch to the Greek keyboard layout or use the system Character Palette. Both can be accessible under the "Flag" menu in your menu bar, which in turn is enabled in the '''Input Menu''' tab of the '''International Pane''' of the Mac OS X System Preferences. Simply check the boxes next to the keyboard layouts or input methods you wish to enable, and check "Show input menu in menu bar" to enable the "Flag" menu for easy switching between layouts. <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">(See [[#Typing </ins>Greek <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">text </ins>for Word 2004 <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">compatibility|below]] for a special note regarding typing Greek text in order to </ins>be compatible <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">with </ins>Word 2004.<ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">)</ins></td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">If you only wish to enter a few characters, either the Character Palette or NeoOffice's built-in equivalent, the "Insert Special Characters" dialogue (select "Special Characters" from the "Insert" menu; then click on the "Subset" list box and select "Basic Greek", and then click on the Greek characters) are probably the easiest way to do so.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">If you only wish to enter a few characters, either the Character Palette or NeoOffice's built-in equivalent, the "Insert Special Characters" dialogue (select "Special Characters" from the "Insert" menu; then click on the "Subset" list box and select "Basic Greek", and then click on the Greek characters) are probably the easiest way to do so.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">There is a way to type <tt>g</tt> and have an actual Unicode <tt>γ</tt> entered in your documents; if you have access to Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1, you can use the "Symbol" keyboard layout shipped with those OS versions, which maps Roman letters to the Greek Unicode code points. Install the layout in your user's <tt>~/Library/Keyboard Layouts</tt> folder; after logging out and back in again, you can enable the layout as described above. These layouts can be found on your Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1 CDs, and they may also be available online.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">There is a way to type <tt>g</tt> and have an actual Unicode <tt>γ</tt> entered in your documents; if you have access to Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1, you can use the "Symbol" keyboard layout shipped with those OS versions, which maps Roman letters to the Greek Unicode code points. Install the layout in your user's <tt>~/Library/Keyboard Layouts</tt> folder; after logging out and back in again, you can enable the layout as described above. These layouts can be found on your Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1 CDs, and they may also be available online.</td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">If you use the Greek keyboard layout as your method of inputting characters, you will need to type them in using Arial or Times New Roman as the font for the characters to appear correctly in Word 2004. There may be other compatible fonts but Arial and Times New Roman tend to contain the most glyphs of the fonts installed on Macs and other fonts, e.g. Futura and Gill Sans, will produce characters that Word 2004 can't display. If you forget to do this, you will see blocks in place of characters when you view the file in Word 2004. You can solve this simply by selecting the blocks and picking Arial or Times New Roman as the font type. This will cause the correct characters to be displayed.</td></tr>
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</table>Sardissonhttps://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php?title=Problems_with_the_Symbol_font%2C_Greek_text%2C_or_bullets_in_Word_documents&diff=5213&oldid=prevJKT: /* Inputting Greek text */ Added section on need for use of Arial or TNR.2006-02-09T17:34:34Z<p><span class="autocomment">Inputting Greek text -</span> Added section on need for use of Arial or TNR.</p>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">To enter Greek text in Mac OS X (including in NeoOffice), either switch to the Greek keyboard layout or use the system Character Palette. Both can be accessible under the "Flag" menu in your menu bar, which in turn is enabled in the '''Input Menu''' tab of the '''International Pane''' of the Mac OS X System Preferences. Simply check the boxes next to the keyboard layouts or input methods you wish to enable, and check "Show input menu in menu bar" to enable the "Flag" menu for easy switching between layouts.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">To enter Greek text in Mac OS X (including in NeoOffice), either switch to the Greek keyboard layout or use the system Character Palette. Both can be accessible under the "Flag" menu in your menu bar, which in turn is enabled in the '''Input Menu''' tab of the '''International Pane''' of the Mac OS X System Preferences. Simply check the boxes next to the keyboard layouts or input methods you wish to enable, and check "Show input menu in menu bar" to enable the "Flag" menu for easy switching between layouts<ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. Note: if you use the Greek keyboard layout as your method of inputting characters, you will need to type them in using Arial or Times New Roman as the font for the characters to appear correctly in Word 2004. There may be other compatible fonts but Arial and Times New Roman tend to contain the most glyphs of the fonts installed on Macs and other fonts, e.g. Futura and Gill Sans, will produce characters that Word 2004 can't display. If you forget to do this, you will see blocks in place of characters when you view the file in Word 2004. You can solve this simply by selecting the blocks and picking Arial or Times New Roman as the font type. This will cause the correct characters to be displayed</ins>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">If you only wish to enter a few characters, either the Character Palette or NeoOffice's built-in equivalent, the "Insert Special Characters" dialogue (select "Special Characters" from the "Insert" menu; then click on the "Subset" list box and select "Basic Greek", and then click on the Greek characters) are probably the easiest way to do so.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">If you only wish to enter a few characters, either the Character Palette or NeoOffice's built-in equivalent, the "Insert Special Characters" dialogue (select "Special Characters" from the "Insert" menu; then click on the "Subset" list box and select "Basic Greek", and then click on the Greek characters) are probably the easiest way to do so.</td></tr>
</table>JKThttps://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php?title=Problems_with_the_Symbol_font%2C_Greek_text%2C_or_bullets_in_Word_documents&diff=5212&oldid=prevSardisson: /* Can't I just type using the Symbol font? */ clear up one bad awkward bit2006-02-09T15:49:09Z<p><span class="autocomment">Can't I just type using the Symbol font? -</span> clear up one bad awkward bit</p>
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<tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">Because Mac OS X is based on Unicode, an international standard designed improve the interoperability of data which gives each character in each of the world's languages a distinct "code point", <tt>g</tt> and <tt>γ</tt> are treated as two different characters (as they rightly are). Simply entering one character and changing the font does not transform it into the other.</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">Because Mac OS X is based on Unicode, an international standard designed improve the interoperability of data which gives each character in each of the world's languages a distinct "code point", <tt>g</tt> and <tt>γ</tt> are treated as two different characters (as they rightly are). Simply entering one character and changing the font does not transform it into the other.</td></tr>
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<tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">There is a way to type <tt>g</tt> and have an actual Unicode <tt>γ</tt> entered in your documents; if you have Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1, you can use the "Symbol" keyboard layout, which maps Roman letters to the Greek Unicode code points. Install the layout in your user's <tt>~/Library/Keyboard Layouts</tt> folder; after logging out and back in again, you can enable the layout as described above. These layouts can be found on your Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1 CDs, and they may also be available online.</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">There is a way to type <tt>g</tt> and have an actual Unicode <tt>γ</tt> entered in your documents; if you have <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">access to </ins>Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1, you can use the "Symbol" keyboard layout <ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">shipped with those OS versions</ins>, which maps Roman letters to the Greek Unicode code points. Install the layout in your user's <tt>~/Library/Keyboard Layouts</tt> folder; after logging out and back in again, you can enable the layout as described above. These layouts can be found on your Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1 CDs, and they may also be available online.</td></tr>
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</table>Sardissonhttps://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php?title=Problems_with_the_Symbol_font%2C_Greek_text%2C_or_bullets_in_Word_documents&diff=5211&oldid=prevSardisson: initial commit2006-02-09T15:43:11Z<p>initial commit</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Users often have complaints about the handling of the Symbol font, Greek text, or bullets from imported Microsoft Office documents. A number of "problems" are simply misunderstandings of the way that modern Unicode-compliant Mac applications input text, while in other cases the problems are Microsoft or OpenOffice.org bugs.<br />
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==Inputting Greek text==<br />
To enter Greek text in Mac OS X (including in NeoOffice), either switch to the Greek keyboard layout or use the system Character Palette. Both can be accessible under the "Flag" menu in your menu bar, which in turn is enabled in the '''Input Menu''' tab of the '''International Pane''' of the Mac OS X System Preferences. Simply check the boxes next to the keyboard layouts or input methods you wish to enable, and check "Show input menu in menu bar" to enable the "Flag" menu for easy switching between layouts.<br />
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If you only wish to enter a few characters, either the Character Palette or NeoOffice's built-in equivalent, the "Insert Special Characters" dialogue (select "Special Characters" from the "Insert" menu; then click on the "Subset" list box and select "Basic Greek", and then click on the Greek characters) are probably the easiest way to do so.<br />
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===Can't I just type using the Symbol font?===<br />
Under the classic Mac OS and on Windows, "Greek text" is often entered by simply selecting the Symbol font and typing; entering <tt>a</tt> would produce <tt>α</tt>, <tt>g</tt> would produce <tt>γ</tt>, and so forth, and if you typed some text, you could later select it, choose the Symbol font, and "make it Greek". While this might have been simple, it also meant that the meaning of your text was dependant on you and any recipients all sharing the same exact fonts. If you were to look at the "raw" form of a document entered in this manner, the data would consist of Roman letters only.<br />
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Because Mac OS X is based on Unicode, an international standard designed improve the interoperability of data which gives each character in each of the world's languages a distinct "code point", <tt>g</tt> and <tt>γ</tt> are treated as two different characters (as they rightly are). Simply entering one character and changing the font does not transform it into the other.<br />
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There is a way to type <tt>g</tt> and have an actual Unicode <tt>γ</tt> entered in your documents; if you have Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1, you can use the "Symbol" keyboard layout, which maps Roman letters to the Greek Unicode code points. Install the layout in your user's <tt>~/Library/Keyboard Layouts</tt> folder; after logging out and back in again, you can enable the layout as described above. These layouts can be found on your Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X 10.1 CDs, and they may also be available online.<br />
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==Greek characters and bullets in Word (or OpenOffice.org for Windows) documents don't display correctly==<br />
This is because these characters were entered with non-Unicode values in Word, and the OpenOffice.org import filters do not convert the characters to Unicode ones. This seems to be [http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16337 Mac-only OOo bug] (or a bug that is only manifest on the Mac, since OOo on Windows has access to Microsoft fonts and Windows methods of mapping characters). Unfortunately, since this bug appears to be Mac-only and Mac OS X is not a "tier 1" platform for Sun and OpenOffice.org, the OpenOffice.org developers who could fix the bug seem to have ignored it.<br />
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There is a very hacky work-around available in [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=912 NeoBugzilla Bug 912] that will allow you to force the characters to ''display'' properly, but it will break proper handling of Greek, symbols, and bullets in the rest of your Mac applications and it will not actually "fix" the characters—only make them display as they did in Word or on Windows so you can, eg., produce a hard copy with the correct appearance.<br />
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====References====<br />
* Trinity threads: [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=345], [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1476], [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1844], [http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=1833]<br />
*: ''Note some of these threads are older and contain information that is no longer accurate for versions of NeoOffice greater than 1.1.''<br />
* [http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16337 OpenOffice.org issue] on import of Word documents on the Mac<br />
* NeoBugzilla [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=912 bug 912] and [http://bugzilla.neooffice.org/bug.php?op=show&bugid=747 bug 747] on import of OpenOffice.org for Windows and Word documents<br />
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