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Article #22118Re: mathematical laser fonts
From: gillies
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1987 21:57
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1987 21:57
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I believe I am using a very recent version of Keycaps. I have a Mac
II and I am running the keycaps that came with multifinder. I know
how to select the symbol font from the keycap menu. I can also get
*most* of the mathematical characters, such as and, or,
left-facing-subset, left-strict-subset, R(real), TM,
etc.
HOWEVER, Here are a few keys that do not appear. I guess you must
somehow type them using some kind of accenting, or else there is a bug
in this font file or keycaps: Here is a description of 4 missing
characters (pict is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise)
pict description Hex Code
U| right-facing subset CB
U right-facing strict subset CC
-U- not-strict subset CD
|~ mathematical not character. D8
Please check your machine; if you find these characters in YOUR
keycaps, then tell me how to type them. They ARE in your machine, I
just don't think you can easily get to them.
So to the basenote writer: There may be more mathematical characters
in the symbol font THAN IT APPEARS. My suggestion is to get the "Font
Librarian" public-domain program, get a listing of (a) Times Font, and
(b) Symbol Font. Then type ALL 255 Times Font characters using accent
marks (see mac manual for how to type accented characters) into a
file. Or if you know a better way to store all 255 codes in a text
file, use it. Then convert the character codes into Symbol Font. You
will find characters you never knew you had!
This is awfully non-WYSWYG, if you ask me. Someone suggested I use
the MS-Word glossary to get these characters more easily -- good
suggestion. But you have to find them first!
Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
{gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!gillies From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: mathematical laser fonts Message-ID: <76000081@uiucdcsp> Date: 17 Dec 87 21:57:00 GMT References: <1576@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Lines: 38 Nf-ID: #R:brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk:1576:uiucdcsp:76000081:000:1730 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Dec 17 15:57:00 1987