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Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]>
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Tolja! (Fat n happy on X.6.8!  :))

Cheers, geoff

At 5:22 PM +0000 23/11/11, 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.
>
>Please advise.
>
>Doug

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