Changing Unicode Fonts

[Randy LaPolla]

Hi Stephen,
MSWord often does not handle font changes properly using find and replace or even global font changes. There is a work-around, though, that I have used several times:

Save the document as .rtf
Set Word to confirm conversion on open
Open the file, but do not let Word convert it to the normal rendering, open it as “Text Only”
Then find the numbers associated with your two fonts in the header definitions (e.g. Doulos is \f25 in one document I checked), and then put the cursor  at the beginning of the main text (below the header) and do a global change with the change thing set to “document down”, not “document all”, changing the number from the one you don’t want to the one you want. Be sure there aren’t any fonts with, for example, \f252, that will also get partially changed. You can do, for example, \f25\ and \f25 \ and then see if there are others that got missed if you do find a font with a similar number in your header.

A bit complicated, but it works!

Best always,
Randy

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From: Andrew Cunningham <lang.support at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:21:31 +1000
To: Stephen Morey <s.morey at latrobe.edu.au>
Cc: "r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au" <r-n-l-d at unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Changing Unicode Fonts

On 23 August 2011 15:12, 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.

Shan Unicode fonts should be interchangeable.

> 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.

not sure what you are trying to achieve with search and replace.

> Is there some special thing you need to do to change one Unicode font into
> another?

No, data in Padauk, Yungkhio, and Panglong, etc. should be interchangeable.

You only need to do conversions

> With best wishes,
>
> Stephen
>



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