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In this chapter, we've tried to pull the curtain back from the mysteries of the fonts that ship with Windows Vista. Hopefully, you'll now be able to find and use any specialized characters that your documents may require. How to Get the Best Free Fonts
Despite all the new fonts included with Windows Vista, you can give your documents a fresh look if you investigate and employ other fonts that are out there that most Vista users don't have. Which Fonts Are Web-Safe Fonts?
Using only fonts found in Windows 98 and higher may help ensure that most everyone who tries to view or print your document will have the same fonts. But what if you want to save a document in HTML and post it as a Web page? Who Has Which Fonts?
We've now dispensed with how you get at all of the characters that you may have hidden away within your fonts. So we turn to an equally important question: How do you know which fonts you have? Entering Unicode Characters from the Keyboard
If you frequently write documents in more than one language, you probably already own a keyboard that supports the characters you need. For example, many Canadians use the French-Canadian keyboard and Windows software keyboard layout for it. Both the hard-ware and the software work together to produce the characters commonly used in both English and French, Canada’s two official languages. Unicode: One Font to Rule Them All
Unicode, when fully implemented as explained earlier, will ensure that computer users can reliably exchange documents created on different systems. Unicode support is surprisingly strong, even among zealots of such competing platforms as Windows, Macs, and Linux. This makes it only a matter of time before universal, standardized character positions are used by most applications that support fonts. How to Spell Words Good
That heading caught your attention, didn't it? For a moment, you weren't sure whether we were joking or just ignorant of proper grammar. We want to make an important point here. Since most English words don't bear accents, many English speakers mistakenly believe it's not important to ever use them. How to Enter ANSI Characters from the Keyboard
Figure 7-1 shows you all of the characters in the Windows ANSI character set. The characters are numbered 32 through 127 and 0128 through 0255. The numbers above 127, representing characters that don't appear on a U.S. style keyboard, required you in previous versions of Windows to enter a leading zero to access them via the numeric keypad. (More on this shortly.) The leading zero is no longer necessary if you're using the keypad to enter these characters in Vista. You Can Never Have Enough Glyphs
Before we jump into all of the characters and fonts you have available to you under Windows Vista, we need to be clear on a few definitions: Windows Has a Lot of Strange Characters
Windows Vista gives you The Joy of Fonts. Vista makes it easier than ever to use fonts in your documents and make them look the way you want them to look. |
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