On 20/03/2008, Alan Boba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, DREWGO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using version 2.3 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : > > I do Legal work involving the Dollar $ sign with two (2) vertical bars > > and find Open O changes files that has the double bar to a single. > > Single is not acceptable. > > > > Is there a way to override, reprogram or otherwise a way to allow and > > use the double vert bar for the dollar sign? Is there a package I could > > download and install. > > > On my Windows XP Pro computer only 5 of the many installed fonts had a > dollar sign with double vertical bars. All the rest had a dollar sign > with a single bar. The fonts with double vertical bar dollar signs > were... > JasmineUPC > Modern > Roman > Script > Traditional Arabic > > If you are using Windows too you could open the "Character Map" > program and look through the fonts to see which of them have dollar > signs with double vertical bars. Once you identify those fonts return > to one of your changed documents and see if the font being used is one > with the double vertical. If not, try changing the font to one of the > ones with a double vertical and see whether the dollar sign displays > as you need it to. > > On a standard Windows XP installation Character Map can be found at > Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Character Map. > > Looking for the dollar sign in each font was simple. It was the fourth > character in the first row of each font. So it was very easy to > quickly go though the list of fonts and see how the dollar sign was > designed in each. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Forwarding to unsubscribed user.
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