Insert Alpha Character - How?

Gregg, Thomas and Rodney -

Thank you for schooling me on this! :) I really should have explored deeper on my end b/c it's all there.

Bryan

I find that the Symbol Greek letters have too high an x-height for the text fonts I use -- they'd work fine, but they aren't elegant. Also, there's no italic (for math typesetting you often want alphas in italic). But you can pick a Pro font that's close to what you want -- since you're working in Helvetica Neue, I'd suggest Minion Pro, since it's also sans-serif. But I believe that there may be a cut of Helvetica (something like "World Helvetica"?) that includes Greek if Myriad is too humanist for your tastes.

Lots of Adobe's "Pro" typefaces have full Greek support, including the alpha. Just off the top of my head: Myriad, Minion, Warnock, Arno, Hypatia Sans, Garamond Premier....

Cheers,

T

Why not use the font named Universal_NewsCom+GreekMath. It has the alpha character in it.

LOL :), Thanks, Steve. You're right - and I use the glyphs panel fairly regularly. Now that I think about it, my confusion was actually finding the alpha character - the font that I'm using (Helvetica Neue), doesn't have it - and I could only find the alpha in the Symbol font - no others.

So I guess I'll be using Symbol as a standard in these documents.

Thanks again.

Bryan

What's wrong with using the Recently Used Glyph feature in the Glyph panel? You can create a keyboard shortcut (Edit > Keyboard Shortcuts) in the Panel menu product area to call out the most recently used glyph, 2nd most recently used glyph, etc.