Hello all,
I created a font with some of the characters in the Supplemental Operators range $2A00 to $2AFF. I made sure that the font is Version 3 and that the “Mathematical Operators” checkebox is selected.
However, the characters are not appearing in either the Character Map utility or in Word’s "insert symbol’ option.
What can be the causes?
I tried a test with the first two symbols in that range, and it works fine in both Wordpad and Open Office 2.0 in Windows ME. If so, it should certainly work OK in Word on Windows XP.
Most likely cause is that the font is not installed properly. Try deleting in from the Windows Font folder and reinstalling it from Font Creator using the Font installation Wizard. If that doesn’t work, try rebooting your PC.
If the characters are correctly mapped, and the Unicode Range is selected, it should work.
I made sure that the font is Version 3 and that the “Mathematical Operators” checkebox is selected.
Am I missing something here?
Why did the enquirer make sure that the font is Version 3?
Where is the “Mathematical Operators” checkbox?
I have just got a copy of the code chart, from the following web page.
http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html
It is the one labelled as Supl. Math Operators.
From a fontmaking point of view, I would have thought that these were just ordinary Unicode characters which would work with a font of any version of the TrueType specification: however, I am still learning so maybe there is more to this and I am interested to understand what this is about.
Can anyone help with this please?
William Overington
Version 3 has more Unicode Character Ranges than earlier versions, version 0 has all bits reserved. Change the version and then select the Edit button to see the ranges for each version. I expect to see an update of the OpenType specifications later this year. Then most likely the latest version of the Unicode Standard is 5.0 and a new version (version 4) with even more ranges has to be added to this field.
Thank you.
I notice that FontCreator provides a Version 1 TrueType font as the default case for a new font. Is that perhaps because if fonts had a higher default version number that some (applications? operating systems?) may reject the font as being a version higher than they can handle?
William
Could be, I just never thought about upgrading it to the latest version.
I think that’s the case. In Mathematical Operators range, the values from $22F3 to $22FF were originally unassigned.
When I added the new characters to the range, the Windows Character Map stopped at $22F2 - just as if it was hardcoded into the old ranges.
I found out the characters could still be used, but could not be selected from Word or the Character Map utilty.
Thanks for your help.