Changing Unicode Fonts

[Andrew Cunningham]

On 23 August 2011 15:23, Post, Mark <mark.post at jcu.edu.au> wrote:
> 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).
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> 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.
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maybe more problematic with scripts that are not supported by Microsoft.

you may want to ensure that english text and shan text are using
different input locales, i.e. MS Word believes they are are different
languages, not the same language.

make sure appropriate default fonts for LCG and complex script text is
selected, having the default CS font set to the font you are trying to
change text to may help.

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> Cheers
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> Mark
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> 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
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> 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.
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> j
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> On 23 August 2011 14:42, Stephen Morey <S.Morey at latrobe.edu.au> wrote:
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> Dear RNLD List,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Is there some special thing you need to do to change one Unicode font into
> another?
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> With best wishes,
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> Stephen
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