On 1/8/17 5:58 PM, Andrew Kroiter wrote:
>
>> 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.
By golly, it does! But the fly in the ointment is I'm using Windows 10
for the document I'm doing.
I had planned on following up on Greg's info tonight, but no ambition!
LOL I'll get to it in the morning.
--
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!"
