> On 9 Jan 2017, at 02:28, Ken Springer <snowshed1 at q.com> wrote: > > On 1/8/17 12:00 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 20:26:16 -0700 >> Ken Springer <snowshed1 at q.com> dijo: >> >>> Does anyone know of a font that has a downward pointing caret? This, >>>> , rotated 90? clockwise? >> >> This diacritic is used in a number of languages, but in each case only >> on certain letters, e.g., the great composer Dvo?ak. To type that >> character you need the character that has the r and its diacritic >> combined, i.e., once you know the Unicode number for the >> character+diacritic you just type it as one letter. As an example, an ? >> is Unicode E9, an ? is E8, and so on. >> >> There also exist 'combining diacriticals' which are just the >> diacritics, but offset so they will appear on top of the preceding >> character. These are trickier to use because not all letters are the >> same width, so getting the diacritic centered on the letter can take >> some finagling. >> >> At this point I should mention my favorite font Junicode because it has >> an excellent selection of letters with all kinds of included diacritics >> as well as a fairly complete set of combining diacriticals in case you >> need to make up one on your own. > > Hi, John, > > Combining diacriticals is relatively easy with my Mac keyboard. I've been > doing that for years for many words, such as r?sum?. I don't know all of the > diacriticals, so I don't know if the keyboard allows me to use all of them. > > In my case, I need the downward pointing caret, also called inverted > circumflex, caron, and another name I can't remember at the moment, to be a > full separate character in the font. > > At least, that's what I'd like. <G> > > I'm retired, and I do some computer tutoring now and again, usually people of > the senior variety like myself, who are totally confused about using > computers. These folks usually find the well known "Dummies" books to be > unintelligible since even those books assume knowledge that often does not > exist in these users. > > MS uses that character in the Windows 10 Start Menu, and I'd like to have > that as a font character in writing about how to use the Start Menu rather > than having to insert some kind of image of it. > > I could get really anal about this and get a font editor and create my own > font. Going a little bit too far these days, although I did that 25 years or > so ago because what I wanted just didn't exist as far as I knew. But, at the > moment, I only need this for two instances. LOL > > > -- > Ken > Mac OS X 10.11.6 > Firefox 49.0.1 > Thunderbird 45.3.0 > "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash > and it's gone!?
Hi, Ken, Does Option+Shift+T on your Mac keyboard give you the character you want? ?????????? They?re fairly small in the font that I?m using, but I think that?s what you?re looking for. Andrew
