Hei Doug

Doug Browne wrote:
> I don't know if it's the result of updating Lion, or whether old age
> has played tricks with my memory, but things have changed!
> 
> I used to click an icon in the menu bar which brought up huge
> selections of characters that I could drop into the document I was
> writing at the time. There is still a character viewer, but it
> doesn't have much in it and not the neat fractions, half, fifth,
> three quarters etc. that I need from time to time. I have found
> some in System Preferences - Language & Text. But where has the
> full character list gone?
> 
> Writing to my grandchildren means using many signs, symbols and
> pictograms to make it interesting, but Nisus won't display some
> of the fonts correctly. For example, Wingdings, Zapf Dingbats and
> Apple Color Emoji are installed, but Nisus will not display them
> and shows them in red in the toolbar.

As others already have mentioned you can use the 'Character Viewer'. - 
Just enable it in the 'System Preferences' -> 'International', select 
the pane 'Keyboard Menu' (think it's called so in English' and put a 
mark into 'Keyboard Viewer' and/or 'Character Palette'.

When this is done, you can always use 'special Characters' from the 
'Edit' menu. This window is floating and can be placed anywhere on the 
screen. To use it easiest just set the blinking mark where you want the 
sign and then find the needed sign in the palette window, mark it and 
choose 'Insert' - or as I prefer - just double-click on the 
sign/character and it'll be put right after the blinking mark.

If I need a more enhanced feature I use 'Popchar X' (shareware) which 
enables a dropdown menu as a 'P'. From this you can choose any available 
character in any enabled font and just insert it at the blinking mark by 
a double-click

Latest version is ver. 5.3...
http://www.ergonis.com/downloads/
About/description
http://www.ergonis.com/products/popcharx/

Cheers, Erik Richard

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