Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!gillies From: gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: mathematical laser fonts Message-ID: <76000077@uiucdcsp> Date: 16 Dec 87 04:17:00 GMT References: <1576@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk:1576:uiucdcsp:76000077:000:787 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies Dec 15 22:17:00 1987 I have a related question: Recently I wasted 5 hours discovering how to type special "Symbol" font characters. Specifically, characters like subset, strict subset, for all, etc. don't show up on the keycaps display of the keyboard. Yet they are stored in the mac symbol font. I finally found a PD program (fontdisplay) that showed me they were there, and then I had to type the characters in Times Font (using accents), and then convert the font to Symbol. I now keep a file of these symbol characters, since I haven't found an obvious way to type them with my keyboard. I have to constantly copy tiny characters from the file into my document, which is hard. Is there a better way to do this? Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois {gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}