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Hello All:

First off, I would like to apologize for the cross post. I originally had this in the CS forum, and was advised to ask you guys (and gals).

Here is my problem....

I recently purchased the Centaur Family pack and the Centaur Expert Volume fonts for use with InDesign (sorry, they were the Monotype foundry...I'm a student and they were half the price of the Adobe set). Also, for what it's worth, I purchased the TrueType fonts. There existed no Open Type for the expert set, which is what I get into below.

When I open up InDesign to use Centaur, they are installed under three separate fonts:

(1) Centaur MT -- w/ regular, italic, bold, and bold italic

(2) Centaur Expert MT -- w/ regular, italic, bold, and bold italic and the regular weight includes proper Small caps

(3) Centaur Swash MT -- w/ regular, italic, bold, and bold italic

Ok, actually there is a fourth, (4) Centaur MT Alt --- but as far as I can tell, it only has alternative versions of two or three characters.

Well, my problem is this, since the Expert set is only the extra glyphs (small caps, old style figures, etc.) and does *not* have the full alphabet included, it seems that for every instance I have to switch the font, back an forth between (1) and (2) if I want the entire copy set with the "expert" glyphs. Where here I define "expert" as Expert Glyphs PLUS the regular Alphabet.

The BIG question:

Is there a way to create my own permanent font style so that InDesign will always know to look for the expert glyphs as the first alternative, then to the regular set of fonts for the standard alphabet characters? I'm not very very good with font maps and Unicode so I'm being cautious here. Also, if there is a good reference text for getting the most out of fonts and CS2 someone can suggest, I would be eternally greatfull, or at least very happy.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I purchased these fonts for considerable cash (well, for a student anyway) and would hate to see Bruce Rogers' magnum opus go to waste.

Thanks so much for your time.

Cheers,

tyler