Peter wrote: > > > the font have them in "proper" locations? My experience with Word > is that > > > it is a real pain to insert special characters from unicode fonts. > (And > > > it's a pain also with Scribus, at least this far.) > > > Why is it a pain? > > Becase if the characters are spread out in the font it takes forever > to write a > "word" using Insert->Glyph (clicking and clicking), or you have to > remember the > hex unicode chars. > > Of course you can create keyboard shortcuts (at least in MS Word), but > then you > get a non-standard way of inserting them.
What about abusing the autocorrect function, eg. ",th" -> IPA thorn etc.? > For single special characters it's not as much pain, but for IPA I > think you > usually want to write longer words with the special characters. So what's the proper way to enter IPA symbols? Is there a standard mapping to the normal latin keys? > /Peter Peter, you just have the wrong given name for this style of signature. :-P Take a look at the nice kerning I get with mine: /Andreas
