Re: [WinMac] Fraction Characters on the Mac


Carl Ketterling(carl[at]thursby.com)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:15:55 -0600


OK, I re-read the question and completely missed the boat on this one.
Sorry. However, the font utilities do exist and can be helpful at times.

Carl

On 1/21/99 6:09 PM, Carl Ketterling <carl@thursby.com> wrote...

>Bob,
>
>The cent character is Option-4 and is available on most standard (and
>complete) fonts. I know I've purchase many cheap fonts that don't
>contain many non-standard characters.
>
>I use KeyCaps and press the command, control, option, or a combination of
>them to find the character I need. There are programs that will print
>all characters of a font in a table if that's what you need.
>
>Carl
>
>
>On 1/21/99 10:15 AM, Robert James, Jr. <rjames@chi1.uncfsu.edu> wrote...
>
>>Loyal WinMacers,
>>
>>In my operations log for the Resource Center, I use quarters of an
>>hour to denote how my time is used. On my PC (which I'm typing this
>>on), I just go to Character Map and find the .25, .5, and _ entities,
>>which are available in most of the fonts on my computer. However, on
>>the Mac, it's almost like looking for a hairpin on a bald head. Out
>>of the 148 fonts on my Macs, the only one that could even remotely
>>help me is BluePrint, which has everything but the .25 character.
>>
>>Am I overlooking something? Is there a special character set that
>>doesn't show up on Key Caps or KeyCap 1.0? Are there any other Key
>>Caps programs out there that I should try? TIA.
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>
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