Times CSX Font

[James L. Fitzgerald]

    Dear David, 
    
    I can't speak to either CSX or CSX+; I've never used them. But you
should NOT have to rekey your texts, even if CSX+ doesn't work. To convert
your text to Unicode you would set up a macro in Word's Visual Basic Editor
(Tools\Macro Menu) and run a series of universal substitutions of one
character (or character string) for another. There are different ways to do
this, some more elegant than others. One simple and transparent way is
illustrated below.
    
    For years I used Ecological Linguistics "Indic Transliterator" and, or,
generic coding of roman letters needing diacritics. This illustration
converts from generic coding to the Indic Transliterator font, but the find
a replace strings could be anything and the target font could be any font on
your machine. You just have to feed in the proper characters or codes. Also,
you need to use the CHRW() function for Unicode codes. You could just take
the following code and, after changing all relevant data, plug it into the
VB editor and run it on your text. I'm attaching a .pdf of a table I made
giving the Unicode codes for .Replacement.Font.Name = "Arial Unicode MS"; it
also contains the codes for the characters available in
.Replacement.Font.Name = "TimesNewRoman"   Good luck! Jim Fitzgerald
    
    With Selection.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .MatchCase = True
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .Replacement.Font.Name = "IndicTranslit"
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>d", ReplaceWith:=Chr(182), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>h", ReplaceWith:=Chr(250), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>l", ReplaceWith:=Chr(251), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>m", ReplaceWith:=Chr(181), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>n", ReplaceWith:=Chr(198), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>r", ReplaceWith:=Chr(196), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>R", ReplaceWith:=Chr(236), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>s", ReplaceWith:=Chr(167), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>S", ReplaceWith:=Chr(215), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ud>t", ReplaceWith:=Chr(202), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<od>n", ReplaceWith:=Chr(169), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ac>s", ReplaceWith:=Chr(197), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<ac>S", ReplaceWith:=Chr(254), Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    .Execute FINDText:="<tid>n", ReplaceWith:=Chr(150),
Replace:=wdReplaceAll
            
    End With
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Indology [mailto:INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dominik
    > Wujastyk
    > Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 4:22 PM
    > To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
    > Subject: Re: Times CSX Font
    > 
    > First, try using the newer CSX-plus fonts.  That may sort you out.
    > (This
    > is a theoretical suggestion; I'm afraid I've never used Word.)
    > 
    > Dominik
    > 
    > 
    > 
    > On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, David Rustin Mellins wrote:
    > 
    > > Dear Members
    > >
    > > Sorry to flood the list with yet another dreary font inquiry, but I
    > > have struggled with this difficulty for a long time to no avail.
    > > When I wrote my dissertation, I used a Times CSX font (Version:
    > > Altsys Fotographer 4.0 , dated 26/6/97 - URW Software 1994) for
    > > diacritics. The operating system on my computer was Microsoft XP,
    > > version 2002, and my word processing program was Microsoft Word
    > > 2000 (9.0.3821 SR-1). For some reason, when I install these
    > > original CSX fonts on Windows based computers with more
    > > contemporary versions of XP and Word and try to open files my
    > > dissertatio, the more contemporary systems to not elicit the full
    > > range of diacritics.
    > >
    > > Has anybody successfuly negotiated this difficult? Thank in advance
    > > for any hopeful recommendations. I will need to send this document
    > > to the publisher soon, and dread having to retype all these
    > > diacritics in a different unicode complian font.
    > >
    > >                            David Mellins
    > >