special character is boldface

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TickTock1948 Author

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special character is boldface

I am using a special character frequently in a long document (an "a" with a long bar above it). I am working in Pages 5.1, running on OSX 10.9.2. Unfortunately, the special character appears in boldface and prints in boldface as well. I have tried deleting and reinserting it, but it remains boldface in the middle of a word - (Sepāh). I have also tried bolding and unbolding the entire word.

Does anyone have any other ideas as to how to get rid of the boldface?

Eric

OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Mar 29, 2014 8:47 PM

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PeterBreis0807

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Mar 29, 2014 9:11 PM in response to TickTock1948

The way special characters work is that if your current font does not conatin the charcters OSX will hunt it out of another font that does.

I think the character is not actually bold it it simply is a heavier looking font.

If you have need of extended chatcter sets stick with "Pro" otf fonts that have them or the standard extended unicode set fonts such as Time New Roman, Arial, Lucida etc.

Peter

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Tom Gewecke

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Mar 29, 2014 9:38 PM in response to TickTock1948

TickTock1948 wrote:

(Sepāh)

In this example, you are trying to use the Optima font, but it does not contain ā so a different font like Lucida Grande is used for that character. Just change your font to one that does include the special characters.

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