Custom SYmbol

[Duncan]

Hi there,

I am trying to modify the symbols in MS word (Insert-->Symbols)

Does anybody know how to create custom ones?

Thanks

D

 

[grammatim]

Font creation software -- not part of Office or Windows.

 

[Microsoft]

Hi there,

I am trying to modify the symbols in MS word (Insert-->Symbols)

Does anybody know how to create custom ones?

Thanks

D

Word doesn't have that but Windows does:
Check Windows Character Map; it'll let you create special characters and
add them to all fonts, the font of your choice, or create a new font.

HTH

 

[grammatim]

Word doesn't have that but Windows does:
Check Windows Character Map; it'll let you create special characters and
add them to all fonts, the font of your choice, or create a new font.

Well ... not Character Map itself, but something called "Private
Character Maker," which can be accessed through the Character Map help
menu.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where is this feature documented?

Does this count as an "easter egg"?

What other miracles are hiding inside Windows XP? In the last few
weeks here I've learned about Speech Recognition and OCR.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Grammatim,

The documentation for the Windows Private Character Editor (EudcEdit.exe) [Extended User Defined Character Editor] on the Microsoft
side is mainly in the technical documents, but this non-MS article shows using it to create single characters (either by hand or
modifying and saving an existing font character, that can be placed in the Unicode Pivate Use Area (U+E000 - U+F8FF).

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/privchar.htm

The PCE has been in Windows for several versions

There is also a Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator utility
http://microsoft.com/downloads/deta...CD-D4C1-4943-9C74-D8DF57EF19D7&displaylang=en

and Font Properties Information extension
http://microsoft.com/typography/TrueTypeProperty21.mspx
that might also be of interest.

Office XP and Office 2003 also ship with Windows handwriting limited recognition (Write anywhere and Writing pad) as optional
installation features.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306906/en-us?FR=1

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Well ... not Character Map itself, but something called "Private
Character Maker," which can be accessed through the Character Map help
menu.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where is this feature documented?

Does this count as an "easter egg"?

What other miracles are hiding inside Windows XP? In the last few
weeks here I've learned about Speech Recognition and OCR. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[grammatim]

Perhaps I was asking this: How would I, or anyone, know that the
feature was there?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Grammatim,

Oh, I guess it's like many things in life. If someone is interested in and perhaps shares interests in something they tend to have
at some point researched, discussed or acquired knowledge of it as something useful, while to others it would be 'why is that even
there' or 'why would anyone want to know that' <g>.

Folks who are into baseball may know how many stiches are on a regulation baseball, and the physics involved in using the stitches,
while other folks might not know or care that this is even documented somewhere

In the case of those particular tools, some of it came from troubleshooting the odd issue here and there, but for folks putting
together websites or writing books on Windows, typography or fonts, it would be something that might be included as useful for
folks who would theoretically be visiting there because of interest in the topic.

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Perhaps I was asking this: How would I, or anyone, know that the
feature was there? >>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Beth Melton]

By hanging out around here. ;-)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

Perhaps I was asking this: How would I, or anyone, know that the
feature was there?

 

[grammatim]

Yeah, that's what did it ... for Bob's information, I created quite a
few fonts (in Fontographer) when I typeset *The World's Writing
Systems* (Oxford UP, 1996), which I co-edited -- including Oriya,
Javanese, Samaritan, Coptic, and Gothic -- so I think I do count as
the sort of professional he mentioned; yet nothing I have ever come
across in dealing with computer typography even hinted that such a
capability came with Windows.

What else will be serendipitously revealed over the next weeks and
months?

Wouldn't it make sense for MS to include a manual with their products,
as they used to do? Why the MacWord2001 (I think it was -- or the
version I had before that?) manual even has an appendix with full
details about using Fields!