Special Characters

[Terry Maness <ma...@outlook.com>]

Hi,

How can I insert a special character that is not in the list provided?

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Re: Special Characters

[Brian Barker <b....@btinternet.com.INVALID>]

At 15:04 11/07/2019 +0000, Terry Maness wrote:
>How can I insert a special character that is not in the list provided?

Basically, you cannot! Note that the list is simply a list of the 
glyphs available in the font you have chosen, and is not provided by 
or anything to do with OpenOffice. If you need a glyph that you 
cannot find, you might try an alternative font, possibly just for the 
required character. In your Windows 10, the DejaVu series of fonts 
have many glyphs not available in other fonts.

Note that if you include an unusual character in a text document and 
send that to someone else, you are relying in their having the 
relevant font to display it or that the font that their system 
substitutes has the required glyph. This problem can be avoided by 
exporting from OpenOffice as PDF instead and sending that. In that 
way you will send a subset of the font you have chosen, and this 
should display correctly at the far end.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker 


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