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by rstroud
Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:37 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How can I find the character code for a letter?
Replies: 19
Views: 3333

Re: How can I find the character code for a letter?

Robert, I followed your suggestion by trying "Factory Settings" (something that I had never done before). It made no difference. I suspect that this is a Windows 7 incompatibility with some component of the Atlantis code. I have a couple of Windows 10 computers. This old Windows 7 machine ...
by rstroud
Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:12 am
Forum: General
Topic: How can I find the character code for a letter?
Replies: 19
Views: 3333

Re: How can I find the character code for a letter?

To keep everything really simple here ... It appears that I was not using the most up-to-date version of Atlantis when I posted about the problem. I always have the current beta, and I thought that I was using it. I do not know what happened. However, I am now using 4.3.4.1 beta a0. The x-bar glyphs...
by rstroud
Tue Sep 19, 2023 2:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How can I find the character code for a letter?
Replies: 19
Views: 3333

Atlantis creates glyph, then destroys it

The x-bar glyph A number of years ago I needed to help someone with "basic" statistics (actually, "basic" was pretty difficult :? ). I could never find a font that had an "x-bar" glyph, which is an 'x' with a macron directly over it. It represents a "sample mean&q...
by rstroud
Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:28 am
Forum: General
Topic: How can I find the character code for a letter?
Replies: 19
Views: 3333

Re: How can I find the character code for a letter?

ADDENDUM to my post above:

I checked the version of Noto Serif that you can download from here:
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif

It is version 2.012, last modified in May of this year.
by rstroud
Fri Sep 15, 2023 3:16 am
Forum: General
Topic: How can I find the character code for a letter?
Replies: 19
Views: 3333

Re: How can I find the character code for a letter?

For the record, I am also using Noto Serif ver. 2.000. I downloaded the most current version available in January of 2023. It has the same information that Robert's version has. I am pretty sure that I downloaded it from Google, maybe from here: https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Serif Hex ...
by rstroud
Thu Sep 14, 2023 3:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How can I find the character code for a letter?
Replies: 19
Views: 3333

Re: How can I find the character code for a letter?

Alan, this kind of thing is an area of interest of mine, and I deal with it all the time ... but I cannot follow what it is that you are asking. Just call me dumb -- it will not hurt my feelings. :wink: Here is what you need to do. Download the free BabelMap at https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/...
by rstroud
Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:37 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)
Replies: 24
Views: 12373

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)

I forgot to say that the screenshot was from Atlantis version 4.3.2.0 beta a8. Sorry about that. Windows 7 (yeah, I know it is old).
by rstroud
Sat Jul 01, 2023 11:33 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)
Replies: 24
Views: 12373

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)

Sorry to be late coming back to the board. I have been very preoccupied for several days. Just for the record, here is a screen shot (zoom = 120%) from a document that uses Noto Serif (regular, italic) and Noto Sans Condensed (bold). It looks pretty good to me. It is sharper in Atlantis than it is i...
by rstroud
Thu Jun 22, 2023 1:33 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)
Replies: 24
Views: 12373

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)

My original post was based on the behavior of the most up-to-date beta available at the time. I have now upgraded to 4.3.2.0 beta a1. The rendering has improved greatly. Thank you! The Noto Sans Condensed font that I used for the heads is bold in the definition of the style. One thing that may or ma...
by rstroud
Wed Jun 21, 2023 5:19 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)
Replies: 24
Views: 12373

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3.2 (beta)

The rendering of the headline text is worse than it was before. The body text looks pretty good. But the characters in the heads are pushed together too close. I do not have a good example from a previous version of Atlantis, but I noticed the problem right away. So I compared the rendering of the c...
by rstroud
Fri Jun 09, 2023 1:24 pm
Forum: Feature Request
Topic: behaviour with US international keyboard layout
Replies: 3
Views: 1960

Re: behaviour with US international keyboard layout

I have been using the US-International keyboard for over twenty years. I love it, even though I do not need the special characters (habló, Fuß, Füße, château) very often. I have tried to get other people, who only occasionally need the special characters, to adopt it, because becoming accustomed to ...
by rstroud
Mon May 29, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Is there a way to turn off the automatic whole-word reformat with text styles (italics, etc.)?
Replies: 3
Views: 1557

Re: Is there a way to turn off the automatic whole-word reformat with text styles (italics, etc.)?

Gee, I did not even know that it was possible to format a word without selecting the whole word.

Thanks for the tip! :D
by rstroud
Sun Apr 16, 2023 3:34 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

Several times I have tried to add something to the Clip Library and have encountered a problem if I do it that way. I select a glyph of some kind, like ❖ and then right-click the selection. A context menu opens and gives me the option to save to the Clip Library. When I attempt to save, Atlantis thr...
by rstroud
Sat Apr 15, 2023 2:08 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

With beta 4.3.0.0 c5 : If I am remembering correctly how Atlantis used to work, the text highlight (most people use yellow) is not working properly. I think that I was previously able to select text with the cursor, and then click on the highlight color to color the already selected background. That...
by rstroud
Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:22 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

I thought it might be helpful if I elaborated a bit on the "drop cap issue". It was the middle of the night when I posted about this above, and I did not want to take time to make graphics of everything. So, anyway, here is the complete story. The drop cap works fine in the current beta fo...
by rstroud
Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:11 am
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

Em spaces have the advantage of giving the correct (proportional) indent no matter what the font point size. Alan, you are worrying about something that you do not need to worry about. I was going to address your concern, and I took some old material of mine from years ago and saved it as an .epub....
by rstroud
Tue Apr 04, 2023 2:06 pm
Forum: General
Topic: How to find undefined font characters in text
Replies: 3
Views: 1817

Re: How to find undefined font characters in text

On a related subject ... I recommend the free utility BabelMap to help you see whether certain glyphs are available in a font that you want to use: https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html Also, I have found that you can usually depend on the free font DejaVu Sans to have special glyphs t...
by rstroud
Mon Apr 03, 2023 12:30 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

Problem with small caps is fixed! Thank you. :D I also want to say, for anyone lurking out there, that Atlantis is wonderful software. As someone who has been using computers for over 35 years, I can testify that it is a powerful document processor. Footnotes, endnotes, graphics, tables, format pale...
by rstroud
Sun Apr 02, 2023 6:10 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

Here is the graphic, if I can get it to work, to show the problem with small caps:

Image

I put a couple of "hand" cursors into the image to point at the problem areas.
by rstroud
Sun Apr 02, 2023 3:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)
Replies: 100
Views: 337995

Re: Atlantis Word Processor 4.3 (beta)

Alan beat me to it. I signed into the forum just now to report a problem with small caps. This worked fine yesterday with beta version b1. But when I resumed work today with beta b2, I saw the that small caps are messed up. I cannot figure out how to upload a graphic right now. (Do I have to upload ...