Incidentally, I have no problems with typing the other languages and special fonts into InDesign. I get the same results if I try to type directly into InDesign. Lots of little squares where the Greek letters should be. When I Copy/Paste that short material from Text Edit over into InDesign CS3, I get the following. To get this Greek font, I used the following. My only knowledge is as illustrated below. I'm not adequately knowledgeable about the font business to know "what kind" of fonts these are. Just the "little squares" that you will see in the third illustration below. The text, however, is the same as initially. png format - "clipped" from my computer screen. All of these included images were originally. these illustrations were missing from my initial query. In what way do they not work? What happens when you input or paste Greek? Also, I can't successfully Copy/Paste from a WORD document containing Greek letters. I can't type Greek letters directly on an InDesign page. > I do have Greek fonts available and they work well with MS WORD and other software.
To handle the Greek letter typing in InDesign in the same way that IĬan do the Greek letter typing in Text Edit and in Word. butĪs an object that can be copied and inserted, rather than as a letter Right corner offers the equivalent of the Greek letter phi. it would be much more convenient to use a keyboard typedĪnd then select from various displays as below. I am able to "get around" this problem in a With typing the other languages and special fonts into InDesign. I get the same results if I try to typeĭirectly into InDesign. When I Copy/Paste that short material from Text Edit over into I'm notĪdequately knowledgeable about the font business to know "what kind" Will see in the third of the illustrations below. See the illustrated materials that follow below.Īre you getting missing font messages? What Greek fonts are you using? >In what way do they not work? What happens when you input or paste Greek? >can't successfully Copy/Paste from a WORD document containing Greek >can't type Greek letters directly on an InDesign page. At the end of the string you want presented, you can just stop, but if you like to be complete, you could add '' at the end.I do have Greek fonts available and they work well with MS WORD and.Then continue with the other elements of the string.
If, however, you code with a leading capital letter and the rest lowercase, then the capital letter version will be used.
If you code the entity name in all lower-case or all upper-case, the result will be the lower-case version of the character.Each Greek character must have its own leading ampersand and trailing semi-colon you cannot combine multiple entities. At that point, put in the HTML Character Entity equivalent of the character you want, starting with ampersand and ending with semi-colon.Then have the normal string until you need the Greek character.There must not be anything before that in the String property, not even a space. At the very beginning of the String property, put '' (or '').1) To create a string with Greek characters in a uicontrol, create the uicontrol with one of the noted styles, and set the String properly specially.