Goofy Tip #58

[Jim Ault]

This depends on the font selected.
Not all Mac fonts have this "bullet" symbol, just as not all Windows  
fonts have the yen symbol.

Look for the bullet symbols in other fonts (small, large, square,  
etc ) and then use numtochar() to produce the one that is closest to  
your goal.  On the Mac, you will notice that the bullet is a different  
size in many of the fonts.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On Oct 31, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Somebody told me, off-list that the 'blob' produced by
> Option-8 on a Mac would show up as a Japanese Yen
> sign on a machine running Windows
>
> [this may be an abstruse joke with something to do
> with Bill Gates]
>
> So, I made a stack with a field containing the
> Option-8 blob on my Mac; then 'pumped'
> it across to my P4 Ubuntu and my headless P3
> Windows XP and got:
>
> 1. A boring square on Ubuntu
>
> and
>
> 2. A thick vertical line on Windows XP
>
> so I am definitely going to stop using the 'blob'
> [pity that, really, I rather like it]