I'm using OOo 1.1.4 with Windows XT. I do a lot of scientific and
engineering writing, so I tend to sprinkle a few Greek characters in my
writing. At the moment I have my default font set to Bitstream Vera
Sans, because it has (AFAIK) an open licence and it looks nice. My
problem comes in inserting Greek characters: When I use the
Insert->Special Character map in OOo I have a very limited palette of
Greek characters, and these characters do not survive the transition to
other fonts. Surprisingly enough, however, if I use one of the fonts
supplied by Microsoft such as Arial or Courier New to lay down a Greek
character, then change the font to Bitstream Vera Sans the character is
rendered correctly _and_ it is robust to font changes.
Does anybody know why this is? Are there better open-licence fonts to
use for this purpose than BVS? Is there some better way of selecting
Greek characters?
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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
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Cell: 503-349-8432
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