Chapter 41: Using Special Characters


Overview

InDesign has 18 different language versions available, covering American English, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Castilian Spanish, central and eastern European (Czech, Greek, and Polish in one edition), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Middle Eastern Arabic and Hebrew (in one edition), Norwegian, Polish, and Swedish. For North American users who want to use special characters ‚ foreign letters and accents, as well special symbols like ‚ , ‚ & pound ;, ‚ , and ‚ ‚ InDesign takes advantage of the Mac and Windows font standards to provide access to those glyphs as well. Typically, there are shortcuts to access such common glyphs, but for uncommon or specialty glyphs, you'll need to use specialized fonts, whether foreign-language or pi (symbol) fonts.

Tip ‚  

InDesign lets you insert glyphs from the current font via Type Insert Glyphs. But if you deal with such characters, you probably need to access them in other programs. In that case, a great tool for accessing special characters on the Macintosh is PopChar, which adds a spot next to the Apple logo that, when clicked, opens a palette of all available characters for the current font. (Go to www.INDDcentral.com for a link to this software.) Windows comes with a similar utility, Character Map, that is available by choosing Start Accessories Character Map.

For quick access to frequently used glyphs (from multiple fonts), InDesign CS lets you create glyph sets.

New Feature ‚  

The ability to create glyph sets is new to InDesign CS

To create glyph sets:

  1. Choose New Glyph Set from the Glyphs pane's palette menu, as shown in Figure 41-1. (Choose Window Type & Tables Glyphs to open the pane.)


    Figure 41-1: The Glyph pane's palette menu.

  2. Enter a name in the New Glyph Set dialog box, and click OK.

  3. In the Glyphs pane, select the special character you want to add to your new set.

    You may need to change the font and style using the pop-up menus at the bottom of the pane.

  4. In the pane's palette menu, choose Add to Glyph Set set name to add the symbol to the chosen set.

  5. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 for each glyph you want to add.

  6. When done adding glyphs, choose Edit Glyph Set set name to edit the glyph set.

    This will open the Edit Glyph Set dialog box shown in Figure 41-2.


    Figure 41-2: The Edit Glyph Set dialog box.

  7. If you want a specific font to be used for a glyph (which you'll need to do for symbols chosen from pi fonts, as opposed to common symbols like (tm) available in most fonts), make sure that Remember Font with Glyph is checked.

    You can also choose or change the font using the Font and Style pop-up menus in the dialog box.

  8. To delete a glyph, select it in the dialog box then click the Delete from Set button.

  9. Click OK when you're done.

To access a glyph set, simply choose the desired glyph set from the Show pop-up menu in the Glyph pane. Make sure the Text tool is active and that the text cursor is active in a text frame or path . Now double-click the desired glyph in the Glyphs pane; InDesign will insert it at the text cursor location.




Adobe InDesign CS Bible
Adobe InDesign CS3 Bible
ISBN: 0470119381
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 344
Authors: Galen Gruman

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