Re: Fonts and such

Dear Yong Peng and Maciek,

I'm sorry for the confusion. The font/macro issue was not mine.
I was merely forwarding a question from a student.

With Metta,
Paul


--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Ong Yong Peng" <yongpeng.ong@...>
wrote:

> Dear Maciek, Paul and friends,
>
> what I meant was that MS Word can only correctly convert the

standard

> ASCII characters. This is based on the very limited experience I

had

> many years back.
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Pali/message/7266
> MS Word can easily import all WP documents, with the WP 5.x

converter

> installed. However, even after resurrection, non-ASCII characters
> would be illegible.
>
> I hope that with your help, Paul will be able to solve his problem
> quickly. What can be done is, instead of sending you a full

document,

> Paul can send you a list of the Pali (and any other) characters

which

> need the macro's help, as a WP document. For example, it may look
> like:
>
> AA --- @
> aa --- ë
> II --- í
> ii --- ç
>
> It's a simple suggestion. And I shall leave it to you how you want

to

> work it out.
>
>
> metta,
> Yong Peng.
>
>
> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Maciej St. Zieba wrote:
>
> 1) Unfortunately, contrary to what Ong Yong Peng writes, MS Word
> versions higher (later) than 6.0 (95) convert WordPerfect 5.1 (and
> also WPWin 6-7-8-9-10; I wasn't able to check version 11-12)
> INCORRECTLY, by default (no doubt, by premeditation). It works
> correctly with characters for CP 437 and 850, but incorrectly for
> most of other CP's, which means also for Pali characters. Creating

a

> macro within MS DOS of course can solve the problem but if you are
> used to WordPerfect philosophy, you'll probably prefer having

macros

> within WordPerfect. And believe me, WordPerfect Macros are more
> reliable than MSWord macros.