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From: "Jo Taylor" <>
Subject: Re: Times New Roman Font... ... ...
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:42:08 +0100
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Hello Ken,

Alt+0241 and Alt+0245 should give you the n and o with the tilde (~) above.
There are different editions of Times New Roman - one thing you could try is to
find foreign language versions which include the characters needed. Times New
Roman CE, for instance, gives n with a ' above and o with '' above (not umlauts)
for those two ASCII codes.

This following bit might be "teaching your grandmother to suck eggs" - so
apologies if you know this already. If you use different fonts/characters and
aim to share your files with others, the recipients *must* have the same font
installed on their system in order to see the text as you intend them to. (This
is one reason why some web sites look so awful - the originator has used a font
on his/her own computer that looks fine, however at the other end of the world -
or even next door, a person viewing the site who doesn't have that font will see
the default face - Times or Arial or Verdana - one of the standards.)

And here is the better news. I have font generating software and can probably do
what you need, unless you need it in a hurry - I'm very, very short of time at
the moment. See if you can find a foreign character set - a search on
www.google.com might find some - if not, send through a couple of bitmaps for me
to try.

HTH
Jo Taylor
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Mye Goodye Cosynes,
>
> I am in the final stages of completing more than a dozen books on my
> family history. I sit with one single problem to finish one of these books.
> This particular book uses characters that are not in the Times New
> Roman character sets. The main characters missing look something like this:
>
> Each of the following characters has the ~ symbol directly over it:
> c e g m n o p r t u v w
>
> Each of the following characters has the - symbol directly over it:
> e m u
>
> Each of the following characters is the size of a single character:
>
> 09 00 19 1 2 3 5 6 7
> -- -- -- - - - - - -
> 10 01 20 2 3 4 6 7 8
>
>
> I currently am using bitmap images for these special characters, but do
> not give me the quality print I am looking for. The image tends to go to
> greyscale when imported into Word or Adobe Acrobat Compiler.
>
> As far as I know, and can see, the Times New Roman font has spare
> places in the font file for user font characters. Can any-one help to get
> these
> characters into my Times New Roman font file ?. Or there somewhere where
> I can obtain these specific TNRoman characters ?. I can email the zipped
> bitmaps of these characters to anyone interested.


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