How to find substituted font in a document?

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » 2008-02-14 06:31:54

The headline says everything.

Henry

Ruchama · Post by **Ruchama** » 2008-02-14 06:37:00

sorry for my ignorance- what is a substituted font?

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » 2008-02-14 07:32:24

E. G. when you import some Greek text and format it with a font that doesn't have Greek characters. Usually NWP substitutes a near guess for the text and highlights it red, so you can see the font was changed.

Henry.

Ruchama · Post by **Ruchama** » 2008-02-14 07:40:01

Thanks for the clarification. I don't know how to do it. sorry

Elbrecht · Post by **Elbrecht** » 2008-02-14 07:56:27

Hi -

place cursor somewhere into substituted font range and SELECT RANGE from "a" small icon at bottom of the document window...

HE

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » 2008-02-14 08:06:59

Thanks.
I never thought of doing like that. I suppose substituted fonts have some attribute of their own, then. If so, I think a search macro could be written.

Henry.

Elbrecht · Post by **Elbrecht** » 2008-02-14 08:23:05

...again -

works with all fonts, substituted or not...

HE

Ruchama · Post by **Ruchama** » 2008-02-14 08:26:56

if indeed there is some specific attribute to the text (like being red) then you should be able to do so through find/replace...

I just had a quick look into the help file, it looks like the substituted text font can be set. you may know that already..

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » 2008-02-14 11:43:54

Nope. Substituted fonts do not have a reproducible formatting. It looks like the hilite is something NWP uses to make substituted font obvious. It is a fake hilite, in other words.
And, yep, I can select multiple substituted fonts via the character attribute tag, but then I cannot tell wherever in a document (I work with documents with up to 200,000 words, or 500 pages) hilited fonts occur.
I hoped there was a way to it through a macro, something like the "Select Next Image" statement, for example.

Henry.

Post by **martin** » 2008-02-14 11:57:43

Hi Henry, there's currently no way to do this. As you've discovered, the "font substituted" highlighting is not a proper attribute that you can search for. So for now you'll have to visually scan your document for it. We've do have this feature request filed.

Groucho · Post by **Groucho** » 2008-02-14 12:05:01

Thanks, Martin. Always neat and timely. Neat and timely as always.

Henry.