Greek Letters and Superscript

Is it possible to insert a greek character into pages on the ipad? When I import an office doc containing a greek character, the greek character is present. Also, is it possible to superscript and subscript in pages on the ipad?

I know this is an old thread but it's still the top result in google for this problem so I'm posting here.
I had been copy/pasting greek letters & other symbols for a long time before I realised this trick today.
Use the iPad's shortcuts feature in keyboard settings for any symbols you use regularly, eg I use "ss2" as a shortcut for 2 and "/-" for ±, still a work around but alot smoother than what I've been doing for over a year with the added bonus of working in any app.
Combined with the greek intl keyboard this is barely a problem, even if it is a glaring omission by apple.

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Garbled greek symbols and superscripts in PDF - new try

Hi everybody
I have troubles reading scientific pdf files where there are a lot of greek symbols and superscripts.
Sometimes, the display of the symbols is flawless, then the next time I open the very same pdf-file, all the symbols and superscripts are gone.
this is happening in Preview (default), Safari as well as Adobe Reader.
Carolyn Samit from Apple suggested to delete the preference files associaed with both Preview and Adobe Reader.
~/Library/Preferences.
com.apple.preview.plist
com.adobe.Reader.plist <--- wording might be slightly different.
This was helpful, but it's only a temporary solution as the mess was back after about 2 weeks.
Anybody got an idea how to fix it permanently?
Kind regards,
Alex

HI Alex,
Next time symbols and superscripts are MIA...
Go to the Safari Menu Bar, click Safari/Preferences. Make note of all the preferences under each tab. Quit Safari. Now go to ~/Library/Preferences and move this file com.apple.safari.plist to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari. If you can read the symbols and scripts, move that .plist file to the Trash.
One more thing that might help is booting in Safe Mode. That empties the font cache.
Safe Mode
What is Safe Mode
Carolyn

Garbled greek symbols and superscripts in PDF

Hi everybody
I have troubles reading scientific pdf files where there are a lot of greek symbols and superscripts.
Sometimes, the display of the symbols is flawless, then the next time I open the very same pdf-file, all the symbols and superscripts are gone.
this is happening in Preview (default), Safari as well as Adobe Reader.
Anybody knows how to deal with this?
Kind regards,
Alex

HI Alex,
Try deleting both preference files associaed with both Preview and Adobe Reader.
~/Library/Preferences.
com.apple.preview.plist
com.adobe.Reader.plist <--- wording might be slightly different.
Move those files to the Trash and restart your Mac.
Carolyn
Message was edited by: Carolyn Samit

Using Greek letters and medical symbols in DW

I am new to a medical college and have never used medical or
Greek symbols in web pages. I have located the HTML entity
reference for greek letters in DW. However, some of the medical
publication references must show numbers slightly below the text
baseline. These are not available in the DW list.
Can anyone advise me on how to create numbers below a text
baseline?

Wrap the entities in a tag.
Ex:
Logn(x) = 2.14
"DaveF2007" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:esna6t$fgn$[email protected]..
>I am new to a medical college and have never used medical
or Greek symbols
>in
> web pages. I have located the HTML entity reference for
greek letters in
> DW.
> However, some of the medical publication references must
show numbers
> slightly
> below the text baseline. These are not available in the
DW list.
>
> Can anyone advise me on how to create numbers below a
text baseline?
>

Hello there! i am using Adobe acrobat pro DC and using windows 8.1. Recently I was trying to convert a web page (includes greek letters) into pdf. I noticed that the conversion is not accurate, some words are missing, some are misplaced. Especially greek

hello there! i am using Adobe acrobat pro DC and using windows 8.1. Recently I was trying to convert a web page (includes Greek letters) into PDF. I noticed that the conversion is not accurate, some words are missing, some are misplaced. Especially Greek words are not accurately converted or even not converted. Please give me some suggestions to improve this issue. Regards

Hey quantum info,
Thank you for posting at Adobe forums. We would love to help you out.
Could you please let me know if you have tried converting other web pages to PDF and checked if the same issue persists.
How have you been trying to convert the web page to PDF?
Are you trying to convert to PDF directly via browsers or using "File > Create > PDF from Web Page" option in Acrobat.
Let me know more so that I can analyze where actually the issue persists.
Hope to hear from you.
Regards,
Anubha

Greek Letters, Symbols for College Fraternities and Sororites

Does anyone know how to access a palette of characters that has Greek letters or symbols for Greek Fraternities and Sororities? I am working on a project and I need to have their letters on the screen.
Thanks!
Examples:
Delta looks like a triangle
Omega looks like a horseshoe
Phi looks like a O with a line in the middle of it.

Here's another way.
Go to System Preferences > International > Input Menu.
Activate the checkboxes for Character Palette and Keyboard Viewer.
Close System Preferences. You will notice that a flag has appeared in your menu bar.
Click the flag and choose Character Palette. Click on Greek in the left column.
In FCP, activate the text input field by clicking in it once.
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Qt and xfce and a bunch of greek letters

first of all i googled my self into some of this conclusion so let's see my case
all programs that use qt in my computer have a strange way to comunicate with the user. for that they use a greek letters that we mentaly have to see similarities in order to read!!!
a bunch of programs in greek.
notepaddqq
vlc
on qtconfig-qt4 we can see what went wrong in the first image, we have a font called Standard Simbols L and just looks like Greek
here i select tahoma font and the sample is now readable
the problem is when i save changes and close it. it doesn't save anything,
and a little bit of information when i do su every program runs in english
here is the config with tahoma
check that strange font here when i selected it
i use greybird as my theme, (i read that could be for this somewhere)
and my locale is set this way
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

that file is another issue. it is created when i open any qt program. i already deleted it. and call qtconfig-qt4, deleted and call vlc and is same old greek. i even edited it to tahoma instead of standard symbols L. i already ran qtconfig then rm it then save the configs (in this case it saved tahoma in the file). i don't know what else to do with that file. maybe a copy paste from a functional one would resolve it but I doubt it.
Thanks

After updating with ios7, I cannot proceed because I cannot enter my password since it uses Greek letters but the keyboard available is Latin. How can I change the keyboard to Greek?

After updating with ios7, I cannot proceed because I cannot enter my password since it uses Greek letters but the keyboard available is Latin. How can I change the keyboard to Greek?

try tapping holding on the key that would be most similar to the letter you want to enter, that will bring up a menu of other characters similar to that character and maybe the greek letter will be included in that menu

How to make greek letters copiable in pdf files?

Ctrl-C will not copy the greek letters in the following pdf file. For example, if I select Lambda, then type ctrl-C, and ctrl-V to somewhere, I will get nothing pasted. Is there a way to modify the pdf so that greek letters can be copied? Thanks.
https://rapidshare.com/files/3819691282/acrobat_change_font.pdf

Bill@VT wrote:
For normal windows fonts you right click on the font file and there should be an option to install it. I am not sure if it copies the font to the font folder or it is best to move it there first. As far as embedding so it can be copied, that will not help. The MTMI font is embedded in your PDF. The Times New Roman fonts are not. I embed all fonts used as subsets. However, to copy the font to WORD or such and make it useful, you have to have the font on your system, not just embedded.
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Since my original question can not be solved unless I get the font installed in my system (but I can't). Let me change my question a bit.
How to search for such a greek letter \Lambda in this pdf file? Is there a walkaround? Is there a tool can help replace the font of \Lambda by something available in my system?

Greek letters in dwm status bar? How?

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Thank you

Sorry..
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I am writing a gui application where i have to display some greek letters as Epsolon, sigma, alpha .... HOw will I be able to code that into JLabel?
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I had been under the impression that most modern Adobe OpenType fonts had support for glyphs like α (U+03B1, GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA) and ā (U+0101, LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH MACRON), and that the few cases I had found were mostly outliers. Today I became aware that I was mostly wrong, and would appreciate it if someone could explain what the situation really is; I was surprised to learn how wrong I was.
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Miguel clarified a while ago that the macron characters were "only supported in font families with the suffix Pro, such as Minion Pro." I had missed it when he said it, or I guess internalized it wrongly. So I guess that means the macron characters are mostly available in the 24 Pro faces: Adobe Caslon Pro, Adobe Garamond Pro, Adobe Jenson Pro, Arno Pro, Bickham Script Pro, Brioso Pro, Caflisch Script Pro, Calcite Pro, Chaparral Pro, Cronos Pro, Ex Ponto Pro, Garamond Premier Pro, Lithos Pro, Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Sanvito Pro, Sava Pro, Silentium Pro, Tekton Pro, Trajan Pro, Voluta Script Pro, Warnock Pro, Waters Titling Pro, Web Type Pro,
OK, well…fine. Then the next problem was Greek letters. Those seem to be…much more difficult to find? (I would have thought the opposite.)
Is there some tool for searching for these glyphs within Adobe's fonts? The Type Reference Guide says "Complete glyph complement pdfs can be
viewed or downloaded from the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com/type," but I can't seem to find an easy way to get to them (I guess the Flash interface sort of works? Is there a better one?).
Our house style currently uses Adobe's Utopia Std and Univers LT Std. For text in Utopia, when hunting for these glyphs, I had usually been in the habit of finding the glyphs in Times New Roman, and not worrying about it. Today I realized that that's not Adobe's Times New Roman (kind of a rude awakening), it's actually Monotype:Times New Roman Regular:Version 3.05 (Microsoft). So then I installed Adobe's Times New Roman MT Std and Times LT Std families, but they don't have the glyphs either.
Is there a recommended Adobe font that has these glyphs that is appropriate to substitute for Utopia? For Univers?
Maybe the more general question is whether there is mapping of "What font should I look in to find somewhat similar-looking glyphs when Adobe fonts are missing glyphs"?
Looking through the Type Reference Guide.pdf (or the printed 3rd edition reference library) is frustrating. I suppose I probably want a font with the icon for "Greek monotonic" or maybe "Greek polytonic" , but those seem to be encoded as special glyphs that are tough to search for.
If I search for the word "Greek," it looks like my only choices are these 7: Arno Pro, Garamond Premiere Pro, Lithos Pro, Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Universal Std, and Warnock Pro.
Is that right, or am I missing some?
is this situation likely to improve anytime soon? Am I better off finding non-Adobe sources for these glyphs?
Utopia is a Robert Slimbach Adobe original, so I guess there are no other sources.
Univers is from Linotype, but they don't seem to sell and variants with greek glyphs?
Maybe the answer is that the folks who picked our house style made bad decisions. Though I'm really not sure? Sorry this is so long. Any thoughts much-appreciated. Thanks.

Hi John,
Lots of questions. I'll try to address them as best I as can.
Is there some tool for searching for these glyphs within Adobe's fonts?
You can use the "Character Viewer" available in Mac OS X. The only requirement is that the font(s) need to be installed.
The Type Reference Guide says "Complete glyph complement pdfs can be viewed or downloaded from the Adobe web site at www.adobe.com/type," but I can't seem to find an easy way to get to them
Just go to any face page, e.g. Minion Pro Medium Subhead. There you'll find a link named Glyph Complement which will direct you to the PDF file.
Is there a recommended Adobe font that has these glyphs that is appropriate to substitute for Utopia?
No, not really. Kepler has a similar style, but it's also an Std family, not Pro, so it won't have the characters you need.
For Univers?
No. The closest would be Myriad as they're both sans-serif. But the styles are different: Univers is a (neo)grotesque while Myriad is a humanist.
If I search for the word "Greek," it looks like my only choices are these 7: Arno Pro, Garamond Premiere Pro, Lithos Pro, Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Universal Std, and Warnock Pro. Is that right, or am I missing some?
There's also Hypatia Sans, Sava, and Adobe Text (the latter is currently only avaialble as a CS5 registration incentive). List of fonts containing Greek.
The number of choices seems small when compared to the total number of font families available in the library. But Adobe was actually one of the first foundries that started including Greek and Cyrillic characters in their fonts on a regular basis. When you look at the Adobe Originals list you start seeing the trend.
is this situation likely to improve anytime soon?
Yes. All our newest families are Pro and include Greek and Cyrillic -- that's basically our minimum now -- and there are updates to existing families in the pipeline. But this will still take some time to become available.
Utopia is a Robert Slimbach Adobe original, so I guess there are no other sources.
Adobe actually donated Utopia fonts to the community, and while there has been some derivative work that extended it to cover Vietnamese and Cyrillic, AFAIK no one as ever designed the Greek glyphs.
Univers is from Linotype, but they don't seem to sell and variants with greek glyphs?
I think you're right. But I see they have a font named Utah WGL that may suit your needs.

Very dissapointed! no rendereing of Greek letters very problematic

The main reason I bought the ipad was to have a convenient way to study the many economics academic journal articles I read for grad school. I was loving the ipad (and iAnnotate pdf) until I got to a point in one article where there should have been a Greek letter and it just was not there! I tried several pdf viewers and none seems to render Greek charachters. I was shocked since Greek letters are so common in any article with equations. This means I can't really read about %90 of the articles I need to read! Is there anything I can do? If not I seriously am considering returning this and buying a laptop instead

David M Brewer wrote:
There was only one PDF reader at the time I when I made PDFs and that was Adobe Acrobat. It wasn't because there was no standard it was because as I state above. If the font was missing on a computer the font was read from the PDF. If the font is missing and not embed the reader will substitute a font. And you can't have font substituting in printing , mess things up really bad. One of the other reasons that a lot of these programs don't embed fonts is fonts are copyright. Netscape a few years back tried to come up with a way to embed fonts on a webpage. Didn't last long until the copyright laws suits started to come in for copyright infringements over the fonts being used.
As for web pages... A good web developer list more than one font in a CCS, in descending order. If a font is missing the next font in the list will be used. If there isn't a declare font for a web page the browser will use the computers default font.
Fonts In a PDF is a iffy thing if they aren't embedded.
It is almost always a good idea to embed fonts, but Tom is absolutely correct that it is not necessary to embed fonts to display Greek. A well formatted PDF using standard fonts with Greek glyphs should display fine without anything embedded. At least, it does so on Mac.
I tried some experiments with different fonts, but there are a lot of variables to juggle around. Anyhow: A Greek PDF with the font Minion pro font only displays well on the iPad if the font is embedded. A Western PDF with the same font always displays fine, even though the iPad does not have Minion Pro.
I failed to find any iPad font with Greek that I could unembed from PDF files. There seems to be some peculiar technical limitation in Adobe Acrobat for Helvetica, Times and Arial, where it always keeps part of the font embedded, no matter how much you tell Adobe Acrobat to unembed them.
Anyhow, you are right that embedding fonts solves a lot of problems, but it is not the only way to solve them.

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