Greek Fonts in InDesign

>My specific problem: when I hit the É" key (the

>letter "f") and I hit the É« (the letter i) or

>the letter ÉŠ (the letter l) the É" changes to

>something totally different. In the first case

>it changes to a letter I have never seen. In the

>second case it changes to the superscript number

>2.

I'm sorry that I can't help on this one. Perhaps

some of the other more experienced people who

have contributed to this thread will be able to

assist you.

Carl Thomas

I do have Greek fonts available and they work well with MS WORD and

>other software. BUT .... they will NOT work with InDesign CS3. I

>can't type Greek letters directly on an InDesign page. Also, I

>can't successfully Copy/Paste from a WORD document containing Greek

>letters.

>In what way do they not work? What happens when you input or paste Greek?

See the illustrated materials that follow below.

Are you getting missing font messages? What Greek fonts are you using?

No error messages of any kind. Just the "little squares" that you

will see in the third of the illustrations below. ........... I'm not

adequately knowledgeable about the font business to know "what kind"

of fonts these are. My only knowledge is as illustrated below.

This works well with MS WORD also. To get this Greek font, I used

the following. All these fonts ... plus lots more ... are available

originally with my iMac.

When I Copy/Paste that short material from Text Edit over into

InDesign CS3, I get the following. Lots of little squares where the

Greek letters should be. I get the same results if I try to type

directly into InDesign. ....... Incidentally, I have no problems

with typing the other languages and special fonts into InDesign.

INCIDENTALLY ........ I am able to "get around" this problem in a

slow and ponderous manner. .... select Special Characters

below...... it would be much more convenient to use a keyboard typed

input as with the other languages.

and then select from various displays as below. Example: the lower

right corner offers the equivalent of the Greek letter phi .... but

as an object that can be copied and inserted, rather than as a letter

that can be typed.

Thanks for your initial response. I hope you can suggest some way

to handle the Greek letter typing in InDesign in the same way that I

can do the Greek letter typing in Text Edit and in Word.

Have a very good week end.

Carl {Knoxville, Tennessee}