Font Picker (free in the App Store) is one way. It lists sample text in all your installed fonts. Enter the text required – e.g. alt-s for beta – and it’ll show that (if available) in each font. Someone might have a better solution, though!
Roger
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Roger Houghton
On May 27, 2015, at 11:48 AM, hugh email@hidden wrote:
This doesn’t refer to Freeway particularly, although it could (I’m actually doing something in InDesign CS3)…
How do I find the range of special characters available to a particular font? … in my case Optima.
I’ve been given a science report in Word which uses some special characters/symbols before chemical compositions, like ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ symbols.
I just can’t work out whether these characters/symbols are available to me in Optima? How does one view the full set?
Also there’s Character Viewer which you’ll already have (if necessary turn on Input Menu in System Preferences/Keyboard/Input Sources. That shows each character in the different fonts in the bottom-right corner. Again it’ll only show your own installed fonts, though.
Roger
On May 27, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Roger Houghton email@hidden wrote:
Font Picker (free in the App Store) is one way. It lists sample text in all your installed fonts. Enter the text required – e.g. alt-s for beta – and it’ll show that (if available) in each font. Someone might have a better solution, though!
Roger
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Roger Houghton
On May 27, 2015, at 11:48 AM, hugh email@hidden wrote:
This doesn’t refer to Freeway particularly, although it could (I’m actually doing something in InDesign CS3)…
How do I find the range of special characters available to a particular font? … in my case Optima.
I’ve been given a science report in Word which uses some special characters/symbols before chemical compositions, like ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ symbols.
I just can’t work out whether these characters/symbols are available to me in Optima? How does one view the full set?
On May 27, 2015, at 12:01 PM, Roger Houghton email@hidden wrote:
Font Picker (free in the App Store) is one way. It lists sample text in all your installed fonts. Enter the text required – e.g. alt-s for beta – and it’ll show that (if available) in each font. Someone might have a better solution, though!
Roger
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Roger Houghton
On May 27, 2015, at 11:48 AM, hugh email@hidden wrote:
This doesn’t refer to Freeway particularly, although it could (I’m actually doing something in InDesign CS3)…
How do I find the range of special characters available to a particular font? … in my case Optima.
I’ve been given a science report in Word which uses some special characters/symbols before chemical compositions, like ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ symbols.
I just can’t work out whether these characters/symbols are available to me in Optima? How does one view the full set?
Thanks for ideas, Roger - sadly Font Picker at Air ‘404 not found’.
I switched on Character Viewer but not sure how to work it!
I remember back in OS9 days there was a lovely little trick where if you moved your cursor to a preset corner of the screen, a keyboard with all the character alternatives popped up! That was nice.
That’s odd. Try http://www.fontpicker.net or google ‘font picker’ and you’ll see the option for the Air version on the home page.
On May 27, 2015, at 12:22 PM, hugh email@hidden wrote:
Thanks for ideas, Roger - sadly Font Picker at Air ‘404 not found’.
I switched on Character Viewer but not sure how to work it!
I remember back in OS9 days there was a lovely little trick where if you moved your cursor to a preset corner of the screen, a keyboard with all the character alternatives popped up! That was nice.
Seems Optima doesn’t support the required characters
(5 α-cholestan-3β-ol), 5β-epicoprostanol (5β-cholestan-3α-ol), cholesterol (cholest-5-en-3β-ol), 5α-cholestanol (5α-cholestan-3β-ol), etc. You see the alpha and beta symbols.
I’ve got around it by choosing another similar font just for that paragraph - not ideal but can get away with it in this instance!
I remember back in OS9 days there was a lovely little trick where if you moved your cursor to a preset corner of the screen, a keyboard with all the character alternatives popped up! That was nice.
