If you work a lot with fonts, you'll probably be interested in Microsoft's Font Properties Extension, which will run under Windows 95 or higher (sorry, Mac users).<\/p>\n
The extension makes it possible to display information about a font's origin, copyright, and licensing; its hinting and smoothing; whether or not the font can be embedded in a document; and perhaps most important, the font's character set.<\/p>\n
Microsoft notes that the extension also \"includes version and date information\" and \"describes the font in terms of number of glyphs, number of kerning pairs, the possible existence of a euro symbol, and the presence of embedded bitmaps within the font.\"<\/p>\n
It's a useful tool, and best of all, it's free. You can learn more here:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/typography\/property\/property.htm<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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John Renish wrote to say that the previous newsletter's macro to fix all caps in text didn't run. I offer my apologies and the corrected macro:<\/p>\n
'THE MACRO STARTS HERE\nSub FixAllCapsInText()\n'Macro created 10\/26\/2003 by Jack M. Lyon\n'\nSelection.Find.ClearFormatting\nWith Selection.Find\n.Text = \"[A-Z]{2,}\"\n.Replacement.Text = \"\"\n.Forward = True\n.Wrap = wdFindStop\n.Format = False\n.MatchCase = False\n.MatchWholeWord = False\n.MatchAllWordForms = False\n.MatchSoundsLike = False\n.MatchWildcards = True\nEnd With\nSelection.Find.Execute\nWhile Selection.Find.Found = True\nSelection.Range.Case = wdTitleWord\nSelect Case Selection.Range\nCase \"A\", \"An\", \"As\", \"At\", \"And\", \"But\", _\n\"By\", \"For\", \"From\", \"In\", \"Into\", \"Of\", _\n\"On\", \"Or\", \"Over\", \"The\", \"Through\", _\n\"To\", \"Under\", \"Unto\", \"With\"\nSelection.Range.Case = wdLowerCase\nCase \"Usa\", \"Nasa\", \"Usda\", \"Ibm\", \"Nato\"\nSelection.Range.Case = wdUpperCase\nEnd Select\nSelection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1\nSelection.Find.Execute\nWend\nMsgBox \"Finished!\", , \"Fix All Caps in Text\"\nEnd Sub\n'THE MACRO ENDS HERE\n<\/pre>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
If you don't know how to use macros like that one, you can learn how here.<\/a><\/p>\nFor more information, see our previous newsletter:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.topica.com\/lists\/editorium\/read\/message.html?mid=1715274489<\/p>\n
Thanks, John.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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RESOURCES<\/p>\n
Microsoft's Disagreeably Facetious Type Glossary is hopelessly old-fashioned, unabashedly British, and a delight to read, and it will reveal the meaning of typography terms that you never even knew existed.<\/p>\n