Umlaut--Success!

[Devin Asay]

On Feb 28, 2007, at 3:03 AM, Signe Marie Sanne wrote:

> Hello
> Perhaps someone of you may find a better solution to a small  
> problem. I need to have the letter n with umlaut (tréma) in a text  
> fld set to an ordinary textfont (verdana). So far I have used the  
> imagesource, but I would like to know if there is a font (among  
> those always present on both Mac and Windows) which will accomplish  
> the same.

You *can* do this in Rev. Here's how I did it in OS X (I'm using rev  
2.8 in OSX 10.4.8):

1. Create a field and set its textfont to a unicode font:
   set the textFont of fld "unistuff" to "Verdana,unicode"

2. Enable the Unicode Hex Input method in the International system  
prefs under the input tab. This will cause the Unicode Hex Input  
method to appear in the input menu (the one with the little flags on  
the right side of the menubar.)

3. Position the insert cursor in the field, choose Unicode Hex Input  
from the input menu, then type :
   n (then, holding alt/option key down) 0308

   the n with umlaut should appear.

Sorry, don't know how to do this via direct input in Windows.  
However, the following should work on either OS:

1. Create a UTF-8 encoded text file that includes the desired  
character. I used BBedit, making sure I chose a font that supported  
unicode (Tahoma or Lucida Grande should work) and that the document  
encoding was set to UTF-8, then created the n-umlaut character just  
as I described in #3 above.

2. Save the file to disk.

3. Read it in to your rev fld using the uniencode() function.

I've created a stack that shows how to do this.

go stack url "http://revolution.byu.edu/unicode/testUnicode.rev"

You may also want to download the utf-8 file from http:// 
revolution.byu.edu/unicode/textUni.ut8. This is the file that the  
sample stack reads from.

HTH

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University