![]() In Windows, you need to go to the Character Map and change the language to Unicode. On Macintosh, and I'm pretty sure on Windows. Now how can I do something, like I can't just press a key, can I, and type 0115, and have that automatically appear here? Why, yes you can. Like this one right here, by hovering over the symbol. The idea is that, instead of hunting down for a particular kind of glyph here, wouldn't it be nice to able to enter the actual Unicode someplace, so that, that character would be inserted here. But there are some fonts that don't have every unusual Unicode. Not every font has every Unicode glyph, but like every font has every lower case and upper case C and D and E and the usual 26 letters of the English alphabet. And a font would have that Unicode glyph within it. The Unicode is a four digit number, and that gives it it's address in the Unicode lexicon. ![]() And do you notice that as I'm covering over some of these little glyphs that we see a tool tip with gid, that's a glyph ID and then also Unicode. Okay, so let's go back to this font, Andale Mono, and we'll show the entire font. So your Recent Glyphs, that's this set up here, or here's Tough Glyphs, these are the ones I've added so far. If at any time you want to see your Glyphs set, like let's say you don't have the Glyphs panel open, you just go back to the Glyphs panel, and any Glyphs that you created will be above this top separator line. Let's add this to the tough Glyphs, and this one to the tough Glyphs. And say that maybe there's something in Bangla, let's look at this font. You can choose a different font from this drop down menu. They don't have to be limited to the same font. So I'll add that, and maybe I'll add this fun little squiggle. So then when you want to add, one of the Glyphs that you know that you're going to be using again to that set, you just right click on it, and say Add to Glyph Set. I have ones for currency symbols, ones for dingbats that I'd like to use for bullets and end-of-story markers, ones for a special diacritics that I use when I'm setting foreign language text. And the Glyph set is easily created from the Glyphs panel menu. If you're going to use the same kind of hard-to-locate glyphs over and over again, you should save them in a glyph set. So tomorrow when I come back to work if I am working on a different project, or a year from now I'm working on a project, and I'd need to insert that glyph again, I can just double-click it from here. As you add characters they're saved in the recently used glyphs and this is saved on your hard drive. ![]() So if I wanted this kind of Greek small letter epsilon with tonos, double-click it and it comes in. So if I'm looking for a specific kind of currency, for example, or a Greek symbol, I could select it here and then insert that Greek symbol and all you do is you just double-click to insert it. ![]() Sometimes you'll be lucky and the drop-down menu will have categories for the different kinds of characters in a font. And if I wanted to insert a special character, I would just basically have to scroll through here and look for it. Open up the glyphs panel, and it shows you all of the characters in the active fonts, the one where your type cursor is blinking. ![]() Or also under the Type menu, you'll see here. In InDesign under the Window menu, if you go down to Type and Tables, you'll see it there. I want to show a couple tricks that can use with the glyphs panel, and with Unicode input so that you can insert basically any kind of character or glyph into your text. Well, that's when you want to use the glyphs panel. Sometimes you need to enter a character in some text, but you don't know the keyboard shortcut for that, like for example, if I wanted uber to have an umlaut above it, not quite sure how to do that, or if I wanted to make this e upside down, you know, like a schwa character. ![]()
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