English Hindi Font Keyboard
Pinkie Pappalardo
So the official Evernote keyboard shortcuts guide says there is a shotcut to increase/decrease font size of selected text. But I have never been able to get that to work. And I know this has been a problem that's existed for some time. Is there any fix for this on the horizon?
Since version 6.5 it seems that Evernote has removed these shortcuts. PLEASE BRING THESE SHORTCUTS BACK. The font size shortcuts (CMD+, CMD-) have been so convenient that I find it annoying now that I can't change font size that easily. There is no reason to remove them in the first place. Thank you!
It sounds like you are looking for the Windows Desktop Help thread. You can find it at the link below, I recommend directing your question there so we can keep the Mac Help thread focused on the Mac version of EN. Thanks!
Why do you expect your pet project (no post on this old thread for over 2 years) to be moved to the top of the backlog ? I assume the devs have issues on hand that will benefit all users. For me the new sync would get all attention - and forget about font keyboard shortcuts for a while.
I exported them into the Adobe library font, but are not able to see them. I can see the name of the font with a little string of symbols next to it on the font menu of InDesign, but cannot get the symbols. I cleaned the cache already.
I have a word doc which has a tabbed-column list and I want to change some text in one column (single words) to use a different font. At the moment I double-click a word to highlight it then click the dropdown, scroll down to Consolas,etc. etc. and it takes forever.Is there a keyboard shortcut to change a font to my most recently selected?
In recording: Avoid using the mouse for cursor movements and selections. Select by holding either of the SHIFT keys AND moving the cursor by the arrow-keys (CTRL+Arrow for full words), as you have one word selected - use the mouse to set the font, deselect by MOVING the cursor - just back/forth if you do not have anything more meaningful. You may also be able to reposition the cursor IN PREPARATION for a repeated run on NEXT word - before you stop recording.
The Alt key shortcuts may be another good option here - a few are listed here under "Use the Access Keys for ribbon tabs", but there are additional levels within the ribbon that aren't listed. Granted, it doesn't quite go straight to the most recently selected font, but you can type the font name in question out, which I find to be faster than scrolling and doesn't require any use of the mouse.
Alt+H+F+F (pressed sequentially - you don't have to hold any down at the same time) will select the Home tab in the ribbon and then highlight the Font field - from there, enter whatever font you want to switch to.
I have tested this answer on Word 2016. The source where I found it was published in 2004, for I'd imagine it would work for intermediate versions as well. (Note that this answers the question in the title, not the body. i.e. this is the hotkey to change font in general, not to the most recently selected.)
You can't. It used to work like that way before the first version of OS X. A couple, or few versions back, Apple took that option out. Like Microsoft, they are pushing towards a fully Unicode system. Since all characters in Unicode are in the same place (supposed to be), there's no need to represent the font itself on the keys.
Personally, I think Apple made the Character Viewer completely useless starting in Lion. You used to be able to view all of the characters of ONE font. Not any more. It's now very difficult to navigate.
If I understand correctly, if I want to use a dingbat font it is just a trial and error of pushing every key with all its modifiers until I happen to hit on the right one. That's ridiculous. They have rendered some fonts useless. Does that hold true is MS Office as well?
It is best not to use an old dingbat font where the symbols are mapped to Latin so they can be made from the keyboard. There is no guarantee that anyone will see your dingbat instead of the Latin. Instead you use the Unicode dingbat fonts supplied with OS X, which you access via the Character Viewer and can only be seen as a dingbat.
What I want to do is to be able to type symbols from my keyboard using any font that has symbols or non-alphabet characters. You were good enough to show dingbats in your response as an example of what I want to type. In the past Apple had Key Caps, which allowed you to select a font, and it then showed what each key on the keyboard typed in that font. That's what I am trying to do; select a font, and see what each key on the keyboard types in that font.
If you use a non-Unicode font which lets you type different symbols from the US keyboard, there is no way to have Keyboard Viewer show you that. But I think there are some apps like PopChar and Ultra Character Map will let you read off the key combos for such fonts.
To add to Tom's excellent info. PopChar in its current form is unusable. At least if you're using non Unicode fonts, it is. You cannot in any way make it show you glyphs in a font that do not have Unicode values assigned to them, and that includes many Unicode fonts! As an example, here's Adobe's Caslon Pro Italic from Font Folio 11. It's a Unicode, OpenType font:
Note the large gap of glyphs with no Unicode value assigned to them between 02C7 and 00A4. None of those will ever appear in PopChar under any setting, so you would have no idea these swash, ligature, dingbat and other glyphs even exist. Ultra Character Map will show all of them.
I doubt you'll see a return to a Keyboard Viewer that will show the glyphs of a chosen font, so you'll have to rely on an app like Ultra Character Map, or (ugh!) Font Book so you can see all glyphs in one font.
Using the Character Viewer isn't a great choice. Yes, you can choose Dingbats to see all dingbats, but that's a concatenation of all dingbat glyphs. As I recall, it doesn't even tell you what font a dingbat is in when you select it. So if you have a half dozen or more such fonts open, you need to have all of them available all the time in order to be sure the one you chose is used in the document. Which means you also have to send every possible font that may include a dingbat you used to the printer to make sure they have it.
Had an interesting discussion with Chris Cox on Adobe's forums. The new CC apps have done away with writing resource forks. In API documents, Apple has deprecated them. So it's entirely possible the Mac OS in the future could be moving to a single data structure like Windows. Which means all old legacy Mac TrueType suitcase fonts, and all Type 1 PostScript fonts would be dead since all of their data is in the resource fork.
That being said, I think I have solved my problem with your help. In MS word I went to Insert Symbols-advanced symbols and there all the fonts were accessible. I selected wingdings, selected the symbol I wanted, clicked insert and there it was on my document. I have created a master document of symbols I would like to use and then in the future it is just a matter of copy and paste. I can add to my master doc whenever I have a need. It's a bit cubersome but it works for this old guy.
There used to be an application called FontBook (not the same FontBook that comes with OS X, which is confusing) that allowed you to print out sheets that showed you what would happen if you typed a, A, opt-a, and opt-A in any given font. It was incredibly useful for symbol fonts and other wingdings fonts, etc. Or any font when you wanted to know how to type in something (shift-option-K).
That FontBook is not compatible with Lion and so is no longer useful. As others have pointed out, you can no longer adjust the font display on the Keyboard viewer. One possible solution might be to edit the "custom" display in OS X's FontBook to basically be something like:
Well, you get the idea. When you view the custom display in that program, it will show you (more or less) the font you're looking at in roughly the keyboard layout. Still not the most exact and helpful, but it's something. In the meantime, I'm scouring the Web for the old FontBook's successor.
The main problem with it is that the chart gives you at, best, access only to the first 256 characters in a font. So the whole app is still based on 8 bit, non Unicode fonts. Not that very many (if any) characters beyond that first 256 normally have any keystrokes for them anyway, but you don't even see anything beyond that first 256.
Thank you. That is exactly the software I was looking for. Thanks, I just went and bought it. And the software that would probably be the answer to the OP's question. If you're looking for the full range of Unicode characters in any given font, then you're right, it's limited. But if you're trying to find the mapping for an odd font that uses different symbols (that aren't unicord) and mapped to the 8 bit characters, then this is definitely what works.
Not every symbol in every symbol font is a unicode character. Some fonts, like Anastasia, used in music transcribing programs, or various dingbats fonts (Christmas dingbats, etc.) map their characters to the 8-bit ASCII character set (e.g., "T" is a Christmas tree, etc.). Without a program to help you see what each font looks like across that scheme, mapped to particular keys, it's hard to have any sense of how to generate these characters, as the OP states.
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