Bridge Fonts in Word
Sid Ismail
Found this today:
http://www.pagat.com/com/cardsttf.html
Enjoy!
Sid
Carl
If you install and use this font, can other people on other computers
read your files without having this font, or must you somehow embed or
send them the font file along with the DOC file?
Fred.
Just an FYI. The standard Word symbol set includes suit symbols. Try
{Insert} {Symbol}. They may not be as nice, but recipients are likely
to have the font.
Fred.
Bertel Lund Hansen
> Just an FYI. The standard Word symbol set includes suit symbols. Try
> {Insert} {Symbol}. They may not be as nice, but recipients are likely
> to have the font.
I have made a homepage that displays the four card symbols:
http://bridge.lundhansen.dk/?side=cardsymbols
I see to my horror that Opera (11) no longer displays them all
correctly. Some of the previous versions did. But Firefox
displays them all.
Some of these fonts are so common that one may expect every
system to have them.
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David Stevenson recently asked about fonts for bridge suits in DOC.
Found this today:
http://www.pagat.com/com/cardsttf.html
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Be aware that unless you convert your document to pdf before distributing it
other users will not see the correct symbols unless they also install this
font.
It is generally a bad idea to create documents using non-standard fonts
unless you distribute them with the font information embedded (which is why
pdf format was created). The earlier thread contains instructions on how to
create keyboard shortcuts that insert correctly coloured suit symbols.
David Stevenson
... which I did very successfully: my Word documents now have orange
diamonds and red hearts which use standard suit symbols, and I use
CTRL-1 to 4 for suit symbols. I must include a grey club! Because
these are standard symbols other people can read them with no embedding.
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Jürgen R.
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Yes, embedding fonts is possible in all Word versions
beginning with 2000. Look at the save options.
Bertel Lund Hansen
> Yes, embedding fonts is possible in all Word versions
> beginning with 2000. Look at the save options.
Not everyone will allow new fonts to be installed on his system.
And an increasing number of people are using OpenOffice to handle
doc-files.
HoneyMonster
> Jürgen R. skrev:
>
>> Yes, embedding fonts is possible in all Word versions beginning with
>> 2000. Look at the save options.
>
> Not everyone will allow new fonts to be installed on his system. And an
> increasing number of people are using OpenOffice to handle doc-files.
Agreed. I fall into both sets mentioned above (well LibreOffice, anyway).
Much more sensible to use the suit symbols already there in the standard
fonts.
Steve Foster
> I have made a homepage that displays the four card symbols:
>
> http://bridge.lundhansen.dk/?side=cardsymbols
>
> I see to my horror that Opera (11) no longer displays them all
> correctly. Some of the previous versions did. But Firefox
> displays them all.
They all look fine in Opera 11.10 on my Windows 7 box.
Though they're not all present in Opera 9.64 on XP (the Courier, Tahoma
and Verdana ones are broken).
Of course, the typeface should be immaterial when you've used the HTML
entity references properly (as on your page).
What I frequently see instead is use of the Windows "Symbol" font
characters 0xA7, 0xA8, 0xA9 and 0xAA, which of course don't render as
suit symbols in any other character set (where they're generally
defined as the Section, Diaresis, Copyright and Feminine Ordinal
symbols).
Of course, the HTML entity references are not suitable for non-HTML
documents.
But even the unicode definitions (0x2660 through 0x2667 [all 4 suits in
both solid and outline forms]) are not always present in any given
typeface.
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Bertel Lund Hansen
> They all look fine in Opera 11.10 on my Windows 7 box.
> Though they're not all present in Opera 9.64 on XP (the Courier, Tahoma
> and Verdana ones are broken).
Okay. I am running XP on my main computer.
Jürgen R.
"Bertel Lund Hansen" <splittemi...@lundhansen.dk> schrieb im
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> Jürgen R. skrev:
>
>> Yes, embedding fonts is possible in all Word versions
>> beginning with 2000. Look at the save options.
>
> Not everyone will allow new fonts to be installed on his system.
> And an increasing number of people are using OpenOffice to handle
> doc-files.
"Installing" the embedded fonts can't be the routine behavior since
the embedded fonts are, in general, not even complete. However, I
haven't tried it and I don't think using anything but standard
fonts in documents that are meant for distribution is wise.
If you use anything but MS Word for the proprietary MS .doc format,
which isn't even upward compatible within MS product versions,
you are asking for unnecessary trouble.
Bertel Lund Hansen
> If you use anything but MS Word for the proprietary MS .doc format,
> which isn't even upward compatible within MS product versions,
> you are asking for unnecessary trouble.
No, I'm not. People who rely on my using Microsoft Programs, are.
Jürgen R.
"Bertel Lund Hansen" <splittemi...@lundhansen.dk> schrieb im
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> Jürgen R. skrev:
>
>> If you use anything but MS Word for the proprietary MS .doc format,
>> which isn't even upward compatible within MS product versions,
>> you are asking for unnecessary trouble.
>
> No, I'm not. People who rely on my using Microsoft Programs, are.
So when suit symbols are missing in your documents it's
the reader's fault. - That certainly solves the problem.
Bertel Lund Hansen
>> No, I'm not. People who rely on my using Microsoft Programs, are.
> So when suit symbols are missing in your documents it's
> the reader's fault.
They are not missing in documents that I produce. Programs that
cannot handle the format that I have chosen (because they are not
supposed to), may not show them correctly; e.g. viewing a
doc-file with EditpadLite.