Re: why don't my insert symbols work?

Thanks Hub and Frank for your help. I found the
character palette and that seems to work just fine.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers, Laurel

--- Francis James Franklin
<postmaster@alinameridon.plus.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 7 Oct 2005, at 20:56, Francis James Franklin
> wrote:
> > On 7 Oct 2005, at 15:02, Laurel Jones wrote:
> >> Anyway, I go to insert symbol and there is my
> little a with its hat
> >> but when I
> >> insert I get a totally different character. This
> happens with most of
> >> my symbols.
> >>
> >> So, basically, why are my symbols not coming into
> abiword as what
> >> they say they
> >> are and is there any fix?!
> >
> > I hadn't realised how bad this bug still was. I'll
> take another look.
> > Most symbols should work, but not all. Anyway, the
> OS X Character
> > Palette can be used to insert accented characters.
>
> The real bug here, if you're interested, is that the
> Insert Symbol
> dialog wasn't displaying the correct symbols in some
> cases, and the
> accented characters in particular don't belong
> there.
>
> If you select a different font (a normal font, not
> Symbol or Wingdings
> or etc.) and switch off the "Remap glyphs for
> symbols" check-box then
> you can see some accented characters which will
> insert into he document
> correctly - but I really do recommend using the OS X
> Character Palette
> (or one of the methods Hub suggests) for doing this.
>
> I accept that this is not a very user-friendly
> dialog, and I apologise
> for that. The problem for me is that when I created
> the dialog I didn't
> know all of the various symbols that needed to go in
> there. Today I
> have updated this and I think it is correct now (at
> least for the
> Symbol font).
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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