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We are using ITC New Baskerville and InDesign for a semi-annual publication, unaware that this font set lacked several Greek symbols (e.g., kappa, chi, omega). A new ITC New Baskerville Pro version may add a few Greek symbols, but none of those mentioned. We can make do with substituting another font, if we have to, but a bigger problem arises in translating from an original document in WORD Times Roman to ITC New Baskerville in InDesign. This process leaves no marker specific to the original Greek symbol.
Questions:
(1) is there a complete ITC New Baskerville font set available that has the key Greek symbols needed for statistics?
(2a) If not, Is there some way in In-Design that we can "program" a reading of each missing symbol into say the Times Roman equivalent - so that almost everything would be in ITC Baskerville except for these occasional Greek letters.
(2b) Better still, if there is a way, do you know where we might get Greek letters in the ITC new Baskerville font to add to our current set.
(3) If there is no solution to suggest to the above, can you suggest a font that is very close to the look of ITC New Baskerville but has a more complete Greek symbol set.
(4) Any other suggestions welcome such as where else to look for a solution.
Thank you to anyone who has information. I am new to the group and apologize if this is a routine question. Please point me to the right FAQ section, if so.
17 Nov 2010 — 3:21pm
This process leaves no marker specific to the original Greek symbol.
Surely it does show a big pink rectangle? That's InDesign telling you, "hey I don't have that character in this font."
As for changing your current font, or replacing it with one that does contain Greek, I can't help.
My usual way of inserting otherwise unsupported characters in a document is to create a character style that only defines another font that contains Greek to match the 'base' font (i.e., sans, serif, small x-height -- or "whatever", if nothing really matches!), then I locate each of the missing glyphs and assign this character style to it.
In modern versions of InDesign -- CS4 and newer -- you can edit a Preflight profile to warn you for any missing characters. Since large preflight profiles tend to make ID unusably slow, even on really really fast systems, I created one profile that exclusively checks for missing glyphs.
17 Nov 2010 — 3:31pm
take a look here: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces18th.html
17 Nov 2010 — 3:40pm
Or here for František Štorm’s version — a really nice one!