Typing o and / gives me a slashed o (ø) instead of the two characters. How can I stop this? I am a newbie to Pages.

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Title says it all. Ideas?

Answer 1

christopherfrommontreal west wrote:
Tom, yes, this was it! I never thought to check other fonts, but it occurs with my old copy of Palantino and NOT in other fonts. Now, I have to replace Palantino or else reformat >100 documents with a new font. Thanks so much, and to the others who weighed in.
If you didn't already did, download the free trial of iWork '09.
It will install a set of fonts which replace most of the old AppleWorks ones.
It may be why I was unable to reproduce your problem.
@Yvan Koenig, Merci beaucoup pour ton aide, j'avais fait les mêmes tests que vous. I'll continue in English for the benefit of other readers. Do you use AppleWorks6 on a recent Mac OS? Because when I started using it in OS 10.6, lots of things broke (menu items stopped working) and there is a 10-15 second delay every 10 to 15 seconds during which the program becomes unresponsive. This makes it unusable for me. Do you know of a fix for these problems?
I use AW 6.2.9 everyday under 10.6.8.
I got two kind of problems :
(1) Running PPC code via Rosetta is more critical than running a true PPC processor.
So, in databases I can't click in a field if it isn't entirely visible.
If I do that, the application quits.
(2) Applescripts must use the exact features described in the AppleScript dictionary.
For instance, the open command is described as requiring an alias to define the object to open.
On a true PPC machine,
open file "path:to:my:marvelous:document"
was accepted
Under Rosetta it's rejected and we can't code :
open ("path:to:my:marvelous:document" as alias)
I must use
--{code}
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
  activate
          open my make_alias("path:to:my:marvelous:document")
end tell
on make_alias(a_path)
          return a_path as alias
end make_alias
--{code}
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 14 septembre 2011 17:42:01
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.0
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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