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?

I haven't actually looked at Character Viewer since moving to Lion, and 
it is rather shocking to see what you describe! Why does it have to be 
different in every iteration of OS X? However, there's a gear menu at 
the top of the panel, and you can choose which categories you want shown 
(choose Customise List). Unfortunately, there's no simple way to say "I 
want all of them!" You can drag and drop the categories into the order 
you want, though, so you can get the fractions first - you want ① Digits 
- All to be first, so it will show that when you open the panel.
> 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.

Can't help you on that one, as I haven't run across that problem.

John
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