Changing Unicode Fonts

[Doug Cooper]

Two more cents for the community memory:   Word distinguishes
between fonts that it believes are regular or complex script.   Given
the vagaries of Word and font-making this can be somewhat unpredictable,
i.e. two objectively complex-script fonts may be handled differently.  This
breaks global selection as well as search and replace.

    Bottom line is that it is advisable to set both the regular and complex 
script
font in making this kind of change.

    Be well,
    Doug

On 8/23/2011 12:12 PM, Stephen Morey wrote:
> Dear RNLD List,
> I work with a number of different scripts and have recently converted many of
> my Shan texts into Unicode. I have these texts in the form of Word Documents
> and Open Office .odt format.
> The font that I had chosen to use has a number of problems associated with it,
> so I thought I would change to a different font which is a little easier to
> look at on the screen. But when I try and do search and replace, to change
> Padauk font to Yungkhio Unicode font, Word searches, claims to make thousands
> of replacements and does nothing. The same thing in Open Office didn't work
> either.
> Is there some special thing you need to do to change one Unicode font into
> another?
> With best wishes,
> Stephen