Thanks Regina. That's how I thought it worked. What confused me is that after inserting something like ⇄ and highlighting it in Writer, the font combobox doesn't change from Verdana (my initial font, which does not include ⇄). Furthermore, if I highlight ⇄ and change the font, it changes slightly each time, suggesting that there actually is a different symbol in each font.
On a related note, is it correct that Dejavu Sans is included in LibreOffice on all platforms? Thanks. - Glen -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer/Math handling of unicode symbols From: Regina [email protected] Date: Sat, November 30, 2013 5:15 pm To:[email protected] Hi Glen, Glen Reesor schrieb: I'm working on translating the Math FAQs from French and have discovered that both Math and Writer only display a subset of the displayable characters in any given font. For instance, the double arrow character ⇄ (unicode 21c4) exists in a<br> number of fonts, and can be inserted by typing CTRL+u21c4, yet it doesn't show up in Writer's Insert-Special Character or Math's Catalog-Edit windows. Does anyone know why there's only a subset? Is it arbitrary, or perhaps chosen to mimic the subset shown in MS Word? No. The Insert Special Character dialog does only show those characters which are really contained in the font. It does not consider any character replacement. So to get the character ⇄ (unicode 21c4) you have to choose a font which contains it, for example "DejaVu Sans". Kind regards Regina -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:[email protected] Problems?http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
