No Comic Sans italic?

Hello

You can't.

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Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE samedi 19 janvier 2008 17:55:16)

I just downloaded an iWork trial, discovered the same problem with the Symbol font, and was quite surprised. This is a standard, commonly-used font installed on virtually all Mac and Windows machines, and no italics? That's a deal breaker for me -- if I can't see Greek letters in italics, then I can't use Pages. Same problem and same reason I cannot use NeoOffice. I was really hoping I could finally stop using Word, but sadly I'm stuck with MS products indefinitely. Even sadder, a VERY old version of an MS app can accomplish a VERY basic function that a brand new Apple app can't.

John Baro1 wrote:
That's a deal breaker for me -- if I can't see Greek letters in italics, then I can't use Pages.

That is a very good challenge - how do you quickly find which fonts there are with Greek italics? You can do it searching the FontBook, but if you are in the middle of typing...

Anyhow, I am pretty certain you have at least the following fonts that contain Greek italics:

Arial
Arial Narrow
Courier New
Georgia
Times
Times New Roman
Trebuchet MS
Verdana

Personally I have more than a dozen more more ones, which I got with Adobe CS, MS Office and things like that. If you are not happy with any of the above, search the FontBook, and you will see if there are more ones installed on your system.

Oh... and feel free to leave feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

You can also use the character palette:
Edit > Special Characters
View: All Characters
European Scripts > Greek
Select a character you're interested in (hint, lower case is after all of the upper case, about ¼ of the way down).
Font Variations will the name of each font containing the character, and its glyph. So not only can you tell what fonts contain a λ, but also what it looks like in each of them.

Magnus Lewan wrote:

John Baro1 wrote:
That's a deal breaker for me -- if I can't see Greek letters in italics, then I can't use Pages.

That is a very good challenge - how do you quickly find which fonts there are with Greek italics? You can do it searching the FontBook, but if you are in the middle of typing...

Anyhow, I am pretty certain you have at least the following fonts that contain Greek italics:

I am aware other fonts have Greek letters, and that you can insert them in more than one way. But my situation is a little more complicated. I have to exchange these docs with Windows users using Word. And ultimately the text is going to be imported into a Shockwave application, and therefore must be HTML compatible. The only way I've gotten this to consistently work across platforms and in SW is to enter the Greek letters manually using the Symbol font, then copy/paste into the SW application. And it was hard enough getting my Windows-using colleague to NOT use Word's special character palette, which doesn't translate across platforms, not even to the Mac version of Word. No way I'm going to get him to figure out how to enter those characters in his Windows version of Word.

John Baro1 wrote:
... And ultimately the text is going to be imported into a Shockwave application, and therefore must be HTML compatible. The only way I've gotten this to consistently work across platforms and in SW is to enter the Greek letters manually using the Symbol font, then copy/paste into the SW application.

What you say is in some way that Shockwave would not be able to handle unicode? I have 0 experience of Shockwave, but it surprises me.

Adobe has some info on Flash and unicode at http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/languages/unicodeinflmx/ . I do not know if that could help.