Symbol font

symbol font not working, it is available in the fonts list but when selected types latin characters, v5.1.1

Go to System Preferences > International > Input menu and activate a Greek keyboard. Then you can type Greek using any font.
Using the dedicated font Symbol for Greek was a workaround solution for the technology of the last millennium. What you type using the Greek keyboard you automatically adapt to any surrounding font and it can even be pasted into plain text files.
Try for example typing the sentence "Γνῶθι σεαυτόν is a cool idea." Then change the whole sentence to different fonts and see how all letters (usually) change together.

Similar Messages

Snow Leopard Symbol font doesn't always work in MS Office

I have to share files between MS Office 2011 for Mac and MS Office 2010 for Windows. As a mathematician, I use the Symbol font on my Mac frequently, but when I open those files in Windows, different characters have been substituted for the characters I typed. Can I change something I'm doing on the Mac side to have the characters display correctly on my PC, or do I need to approach the problem from the Windows side? Why isn't the Symbol font universally compatible? Is there another variation in the Symbol font family that would be more compatible?

William M. wrote:
As a mathematician, I use the Symbol font on my Mac frequently, but when I open those files in Windows, different characters have been substituted for the characters I typed.
You may be using the legacy symbol character encoding, which is not a good idea any more, as most apps have moved to Unicode. Instead of using the Symbol font, make your characters by going to the Character Viewer (Edit > Special Characters), view = Roman, Tab = By Category, Category = Math, Digits, Greek
PS Depending on what app you are working in, you might want to use an Equation Editor rather than just typing symbols directly:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2008/12/typing-equations-and-formulas.html

When a html coded page requires the Windows Symbol font, Firefox does not call it, and the English alphabet characters display instead. How can I get the Symbol font to work when the page is loaded in Firefox??

''duplicate of https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/902677''
This site shows Greek letters and Greek words by calling for the Windows Symbol font. The page(s) involved display correctly in Internet Explorer, but not in Firefox 3.6.1 or 8.1. In Firefox, the Greek letter does not appear, it is just replaced with the English letter for the equivalent keystroke. Here is a html line that ought to cause Symbol's Greek letter lowercase alpha to be displayed, but all you get is an "a" :
(td width="60")(p align="center")(big)(strong)(font face="Symbol")(span style="font-family: , Symbol")a(/span)(/font)(/strong)(/big)(/td)
**I have had to replace the left and right carets with left and right parentheses. Otherwise, the line actually executes, disappears, and just leaves a bolded "a" on the next line.***

Reemphasizing, the page code works on Internet Explorer. It does _not_ work with Firefox ver 3.6.1 nor ver 8.0.1 (which I upgraded to, to see if that would solve the problem). The MDC FAQ solution is not a solution, because it forces the html coder to change his language just to accommodate Firefox. Firefox needs to change to conform to standards.
What did work was that I followed the solution offered on:
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/firefox3.html
"How to reenable symbol font in Firefox 3 on Windows"
<b>**********Solution*********</b>
Download the file:
http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/symbol8859.otf
Go to Control Panel/Fonts/Install New Font
Install the font that was downloaded.
<b>************Problem Solved*********</b>
I think Firefox wants you to use _its_ font faces, not the standard Windows fonts. They do not have a Symbol font to replace the Windows TTF, I guess.

Symbol font not displayed correctly in WebHelp output

I have TCS 2. I have a character format that uses the Symbol font. It displays correctly in FM and in the RH Design Editor. But in the WebHelp output, the Symbol font displays as Arial. What did I do wrong?

Hi,
What browser are you using? Most probably, your browser does not support the symbol font out of the box and therefore defaults back to Arial. My guess is that it will work on IE, but not on other browsers. This is because Symbol isn't a default web font.
To overcome this, you must use the @font-face rule in your css and provide the font file as a baggage file in your project. For more info on @font-face, see: http://www.font-face.com/.
Greet,
Willam

In Mail 7.3 on my Retina MacBook Pro on OS 10.9.4, how can I type from the keyboard into a mail message using the Apple Symbols font?

In Mail 7.3 on my Retina MacBook Pro on OS 10.9.4, how can I type from the keyboard into a mail message using the Apple Symbols font?
When I select the Apple Symbols font from the list accessed from under Format/"Show fonts"/collection-all fonts/Apple Symbol, and then continue typing, I get normal letters, if in a slightly different font.
How can I type using the Apple Symbol font? I want to use that font to include keyboard and cursor selections of actual screen symbols to help write easily understood explicit computer lesson emails to my 92 year-old mom from a few hundred miles away.
Steve

In Mail 7.3 on my Retina MacBook Pro on OS 10.9.4, how can I type from the keyboard into a mail message using the Apple Symbols font?
When I select the Apple Symbols font from the list accessed from under Format/"Show fonts"/collection-all fonts/Apple Symbol, and then continue typing, I get normal letters, if in a slightly different font.
How can I type using the Apple Symbol font? I want to use that font to include keyboard and cursor selections of actual screen symbols to help write easily understood explicit computer lesson emails to my 92 year-old mom from a few hundred miles away.
Steve

Using Symbol Font in Pages/Keynote etc.

Here is a strange problem: Whenever I want to insert a greek character from Symbol font Pages (09 as well as 08, and Keynote ...) replaces it by some standard font (probably Helvetica). In effect, Symbol is not available. If I want to write a simple formula containig a greek character (as e.g a small beta) I have to use Mathtype or copy and paste from word. Good old Appleworks also works fine with Symbol font.
Can anybody help?? What am I doing wrong???

Using the character pallette or activating the greek keyboard will of course do. It seems an awkwardly labourious way to me, though. If I understand you correctly there is no other way. Why would symbol font (which is not greek but symbol!) not work in the same way as e.g. Wingdings (Zapf Dingbats behaves just as symbol, though)? I Don't care for Unicode, but this, I think, is unfortunate.
It is the other way around - the way monotonic Greek and mathematics are drawn in Adobe PostScript is a disaster -:). It helps to read Inside Macintosh: Text, published in 1993, and the PostScript Language Reference Manual, first and second version.
How was monotonic Greek and mathematics drawn on the Apple LaserWriter in 1985? Well, it was drawn by depicting the glyphs for monotonic Greek and mathematics in the built-in Adobe Symbol font program dictionary onto Apple Roman.
Adobe PostScript provides two procedures to get from characters to glyphs, StandardEncoding and FontSpecific encoding. The latter encoding vector is used when the Adobe PostScript configurable name space that replaces a character set is used to overrule the operating system character set.
If you were typing monotonic Greek because you wanted to type Greek, and not because you wanted to type mathematics, you were in the ditch with this hack since the hack broke spelling, sorting and searching which are processes that are predicted on character codes.
Apple Royal, now Apple Advanced Typography, was a project that took two directions to address the problem of drawing to the display and the printer.
First, the CMAP Character Map was intended to include the characters for the writing systems of world scripts.
Second, the layout logic to map from characters to glyphs was intended to provide evaluatable appearances for stylistic alternates such as small capitals, superscripts, subscripts and ligatures.
Adobe PostScript is a one-to-one mapping model that by definition is incapable of protecting the source character string when drawing fine typography.
You may rest assured that the issue of interactive input methods is on the agenda for computer manufacturers. For instance, Microsoft failed in a bid to acquire Swiss keyboard maker Logitech in 2008.
/hh

Symbol font is not displaying correctly on mozilla 23.0.1?

I am displaying a html page inside a frame having some Maths symbols, using SYMBOL font. but these symbols are not display correct on mozilla browser. provide some solution.

Hi sangeeta, the problem with writing code to solve this problem is that you likely need to create a table or a pair of arrays to contain the corresponding characters. As long as you are going to do that, it might be easier to edit the pages. Or add an external script to those pages to "fix" the references.
If you are saying that the HTML pages are out of your control, that's harder...
Is it an option to load the page dynamically onto your server so it can be processed by ASP.Net and then served using a URL from your server?
If not, are your page and the framed page on the same server? In that case, perhaps a JavaScript function that "fixes" the page could be useful.
If not, it's hard to see how you can overcome the "same origin" security constraints and get to the framed page.

Symbol font missing problem

I have a Visio design containing symbols from Symbols font (in Windows) converted to PDF and then imported in the Illustrator CS 6. It says the symbol font missing and substitued with 'Myriad Pro', and those symbols are shown as crossed ('X'). As suggested in some posts, I tried to replace this font with <Symbol> font (tried others as well) using 'Find Font', but it didn't replace. Can some one tell me a working solution, preferably the solution to the missing symbol font problem itself, if not a way to replace.
Thanks a lot in advance.
Raj

Placing seems to work even without flattening, but as you said cannot edit text anymore.
Regarding the other solution, that is where my problem was. I tried to assign the correct font (and with some other fonts too just to check) to the text objects, but Illustrator doesn't seem to accept as the font remains the same 'Myriad Pro' all the time! It is infact what 'Find Font' does for font replacemet, if I understood correctly, but alas this too doesn't work.
Until there is no better solution, I can at least use the edit restricted place method for now! Thanks Monika for that.

Symbol fonts in ADE

Hi.
Why the symbol fonts do not show up in ADE?
I created an epub file from Indesign with embedded fonts.
The garamond and helvetica fonts show up fine, but dingbats and symbol fonts are not.
The same is viewed fine in Sigil and on iBooks (when i remove font encoding).
Ants

I don't think you will get much help for DRM removal on the Digital Edition forum.
You won't be able to make any changes using ADE prior to DRM removal.
After DRM removal you will have a standard .epub or .pdf.
There are several DRM removal tools, I don't know how similar the result are: try EPUBEE.
For a .epub you can massage details such as fonts in Calibre.
If you are more technical, you can open the .epub using a zip manager such as 7-zip and see all the files.
You can then edit the .css files, and any font files that may be embedded, or even the individual .html files if easier.

No symbol font in pages

I am having a strange font problem in Pages (1.0.1). When I try to use the symbol font in Pages, I get a font that looks like Times. If I go to the Font Book App, Symbol font looks like symbol font, and I can use Symbol in Word 2004, so I have the font in my system. Anyone have any ideas?

Test 1. Type with Symbol. Highlight the text and
change font to Times. The text becomes Latin.
Ok, Latin codepoints, it's using the old Symbol mapping.
Test 2. Type with Times and Greek keyboard. (That
works fine.) Change font to Symbol. Change back to
Times. It stays Greek all the time. (Visually
identical to Test 1.)
OK, Greek codepoints, it's probably using a second, Unicode cmap in Symbol (or a second, Unicode Symbol font).
Test 3. Type α with Symbol. In Character Palette,
select "Show Character Selected in Application". You
get unicode character F061 which is in the Private
Use Area.
Interesting! Part of the hack I imagine.
Test 4. Type α using Symbol. Change to Times, so it
becomes Latin a. Change back to Symbol. In Character
Palette, select "Show Character Selected in
Application". You get unicode character 0061 (a).
(Visually it looks exactly the same as in Test 3.)
Hack disrupted?
Test 5. Type α using Symbol. Copy and Paste into
TextEdit. TextEdit displays the "Private Use" symbol
used when no glyph is present. Character Palette
gives F061 as in Test 3.
Conclusion: It's a hack.
Agreed.

Symbol font not displaying

I'm creating a presentation and I need to use Greek letters. The symbol font is installed on my computer (font book sees it an displays it properly). Keynote 2.0.2 does not want to use this font. Can anyone offer any suggestions as to how to fix this? I have done 'duct tape' solutions like using LaTeX to create a pdf that shows the desired character and then importing it as an image, but that is not ideal.

I solved it by switching to the MMGreek font. Didn't even know I had it. It's a little counterintuitive ('mu' is not linked to 'm') but it'll work. I guess I should look through my whole list before I get too excited.

Symbol Fonts

The symbol fonts are not working with PE version 12. On the other hand PS version 12 is fine !! Any imput ?

Hunt,
I do not understand your result with Premiere Elements 11 on Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit if you were working with the "Symbol" font choice that Adobe gave you and you did not do anything "special" with your Windows fonts and/or placement of fonts in some Common Folders.
So, that is going to motivate me to install Premiere Elements 11 on Windows XP Professional SP3 32 bit and see what I get.
This is the story that I have put together based on my observations of a Windows 7 Professional SP1 64 bit.
For Premiere Elements 4, 7, 8.0/8.0.1, 9.0/9.0.1, and 10, the Titler in each offers a "Symbol" font. Important. That "Symbol" font comes in Regular or Medium choice. If you select "Symbol" Medium, you can get your Greek characters as you show. But, if you select "Symbol" Regular, you get the blocks.
For reasons unknown, when you get to Premiere Elements 11 and 12, the Titler in each offers "Symbol" font Regular ONLY. So, you are stuck with blocks. My attempts to borrow some Symbol font failed. I suspect because it was .ttf, and I was trying to bring it into a .otf community of fonts for Premiere Elements.
Interestingly, Photoshop Elements offers the "Symbol" font choice in its Full Editor as "Regular" and "Medium", but both work to produced the Greek characters and no blocks.
Reflecting, the one thing that is confirming about your screenshot...Premiere Elements 11 on Windows XP SP3 32 bit is that you got the Greek letters with the "Symbol" font with the Medium choice. Did you get a choice for Regular as well? In my case of Premiere Elements 11 and 12 Windows 7, I had no alternative. It was just Regular and that gave the blocks instead of the Greek characters.
I just need to figure out how you got the result you did. A Windows XP perk? Then I will report back.
More later.
ATR

Is there a music notes or music symbols font in Pages?

I could swear I passed by one a while back. I actually need it now and cannot remember the name of the font!

Character information for Western music can be input through the Apple Character Palette. Western music is included in ISO-IEC 10646-Universal Character Set. The proposal was submitted by Perry Roland of the Library of the University of Virginia which is also home to the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI).
There are some glyphs for Western music in the Apple Symbol font. Setting sheet music may be another matter. In part a richer font would be needed, and in part a richer positioning system than a plain typographic one would be needed. Perhaps if you want more than a symbol or two inserted in a line of type, the Music Encoding Initiative may provide a start?
/hh
Reference:
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/mei/

MathType and Symbol fonts on Mac

I'm running MathType 6.0a, InDesign CS4 6.03 on Mac OSX 10.5.7
There's a known issue with the Symbol font, but I can seem to get it to show up in InDesign or illustrator (It's fine in Word), though my system only shows one version of symbol, and it looks to be the correct one (stored in Macintosh HD > Library > Fonts)
MathType recommends: (http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/TSN47.htm)
What causes this problem
The MathType installer moves the Symbol font suitcase into a folder that it creates called "Fonts (Disabled)" during installation to ensure that your system does not use it.
When you upgrade your version of the Macintosh Operating System, reinstall Microsoft Office, or apply a patch to or invoke a "First Run" of Microsoft Office, these programs check your Fonts folder for the Symbol font suitcase. Since the Symbol font suitcase has been moved out of your Fonts folder, they install a Symbol font suitcase into your Fonts folder.
Some users, because they do not see a Symbol font suitcase in their Fonts folder, place a copy there, possible moving the Symbol font suitcase from "Fonts (Disabled)" back into their Fonts folder.
The best way to avoid receiving this error message is to manually remove the Symbol font suitcase from the Fonts folder in your System folder after upgrading Mac OS, or reinstalling, applying a patch to, or invoking a "First Run" of Microsoft Office or one of its components.
This worked for my home computer, but isn't working on my work computer (where I really need it).
I've also tried repairing permissions as per, http://www.dessci.com/en/support/mathtype/tsn/tsn126.htm
I run FontExplorer (the old free version), but it's useless for dealing with system fonts.
Does anyone know anything else I can try?

You may want to rerun in FEX > Tools > Clean System Font Folder… on the chance that your evil computer put it back.
Que the Indd Secret Site:
http://indesignsecrets.com/removing-nonessential-system-fonts-in-leopard.php
Apple says:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1642
Anything other than:
Monaco.dfont
LucidaGrande.dfont
LastResort.dfont
Keyboard.dfont
Geneva.dfont
and a working copy of Helvetica (any brand will do and only then assuming you need Photoshop), will get you where you need in terms of fonts. Every other font in your system is wholly optionally and I personally let FEX manage anything that isn't the above five fonts, think anyone who doesn't is making a mistake.
Short version. Delete every copy of Symbol and run every command under the Tools menu of FEX, throw two reboots in the machine and hope for the best.

Symbol font does not work in Keynot

The Symbol font is there, but selecting it from the Text pallette does not produce any Greek letters, only Latin ones. How does one get Greek into Keynote text??
BTW. Symbol font is installed and does work in Word.
Thanks
Glenn

You need to use the Character Palette (Edit > Special Characters). View = Roman, Category = Greek.
Or activate the Greek keyboard layout in system prefs/international/input menu.
In Unicode apps you normally use a palette or a keyboard layout to make such characters rather than just changing the font.

Symbol font

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for