Changing Unicode Fonts

[John Mansfield]

Should you really be using find-and-replace to change fonts? ... This is
something I would normally do by highlighting the relevant text (or ctrl+A
to select all), then using the font drop-down menu.

j

On 23 August 2011 14:42, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> 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
>
>
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