Re: TECH: another dumb question

On 08/07/06, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

> Does your typesetting system deal with combining characters?  You
> could try a 0 followed by a combining slash (U+0338).
Or just really negative kerning, and type 0/, with / strongly negatively kerned.

> I'm sure there must be some font out there that has the slashed glyph
> as its standard zero, though.
Some OpenType fonts, at least, have slashed zero as an option; Adobe
Minion Pro is one such font (costs $35 for each style ... or you can
get it free with Adobe Reader and AFAIK the same licence conditions, I
don't know why). But I don't know whether you can pick the option with
Word or the like, but you can with XeTeX and advanced DTP stuff like
PageMaker I think.

> On 7/7/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> > Does any font have the zero-with-slash character? Or, is there a unicode
> > char. for that? (I see Lucida Sans has one, U+2205, but it's
> > indistinguishable from---
> >
> > I have used (sparingly) cap. O-slash (Ø Alt+0216), and in context it isn't
> > too confusing....but it could be :-))
> >
> > I'd like to find one that's narrower, that is, 0 not O
> >
> > Thanks. R.
> >
>
>
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> Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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