Re: OT?: Mac to PC Annoyance

At 02:40 PM 08/10/00, you wrote:
>At 12:48 09-08-00 -0400, you wrote:
> >I suspect that what you are encountering are ligatures, i.e., glyphs that
> >combine several characters.  This is commonly done in typography.  You
> >should be able to do a search and replace in Word to replace, for example,
> >all instances of the 'fi' ligature to the characters 'f' and 'i'.  Once you
> >have replaced all ligatures by their equivalent characters, your problems
> >should go away.
>
>   But  Doug does not know the code for ligature fl  and fi  :-(
>   The solution I see is to save document in .RTF  format,
>   open it with plain text editor and find words surrounding
>   that  wrongly presented (in other applaications) ligature.
>   After it is established what is the coding of that, it can
>   be replaced by coding for f and i  or  f and l accordingly.
>   This replacement can be done within plain text editor
>   with no harm to the structure of the document.

It is not necessary to know the codes for the ligatures.  Doug can enter a 
ligature in Word using Insert Symbol.  Then he can copy it to the 
clipboard, run the Replace function, paste the code into the Search box, 
and type the equivalent characters in the Replace box.  Quite simple.


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Chuck Upsdell
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