Perhaps a dumb question. Feel free to redirect me if this is the wrong place.
I am trying to get functional Unicode diacritics (for
Persian/Arabic/Chaghatai) using Nisus Writer Express 2.1.3 (:-).
I know how to type them, but only some of the fonts, despite the
Keyboard viewer showing the existence of the correct diacritics
for that font when selected (option-a for macron, option-h for
under-line, option-x for under-dot), when typed the serif fonts
largely revert to a non-serif (arial?) letter. Vowels with
macrons seem to default to a serif face, consonants to a
san-serif (and wow, does that make for ugly words!). This
despite the fact that the font name in NEx (Tools, Formatting, Font Family) continues to show the font originally selected.
I downloaded Gentium from the web, and this works perfectly, but it doesn't have a bold. Arial Unicode downloaded from Brill also seems to work correctly.
Is there something I'm missing? Should I get a larger set of fonts from somewhere (Nisus?) that will work as I expect? Is the problem that the fonts bundled with the Mac OS are not "real" unicode fonts?
Thanks!!
Vika
OS 10.3.9, Powerbook G3
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