Changing Unicode Fonts

[Post, Mark]

Presumably Stephen's trying to make a uniform change within a subset of text (i.e., the rest of the doc is in Times or whatever).

I've had similar problems with Word. If it's possible to re-design your search-and-replace in terms of styles, with a particular font as a defined feature, this may be more effective.

Cheers
Mark

From: r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au [mailto:r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au] On Behalf Of John Mansfield
Sent: Tuesday, 23 August 2011 3:19 PM
To: RNLD
Subject: Re: Changing Unicode Fonts

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<mailto: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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