FONT with male / female symbol

[Una Smith]

On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 09:20:05AM -0700, Curtis Clark wrote:

>Times New Roman and Arial, as distributed by Microsoft, both contain the
>male and female symbols. Unfortunately, (1) the versions in each are ugly,
>(2) they are only accessible in Windows 2000, OSX, or specific applications
>such as MS Word that support Unicode, and (3) if your publisher is still
>using Type 1 fonts, which don't support Unicode, you are out of luck.

If it comes from Microsoft and it isn't Unicode, it's probably True Type.

If your publisher wants Type 1 fonts, you are *not* out of luck.  See the
font collections on the CTAN web sites (http://www.tug.org);  they include
very nice Type 1 fonts that contain all the symbols in the Comprehensive
Symbols List for LaTeX.  Again, you *don't need* LaTeX to use these fonts.


>The aim of Unicode is to eventually be a single computer character code
>for all the writing systems of the world, and many other symbols that are
>used in plain text.

Unicode rules.

For TeX users since 1996, there is Omega, an extension of TeX that
supports Unicode.  It is implemented in TeX systems for all Unix OS's
(teTeX), Windows (mikTeX), and Macintosh (CMacTeX).


>Fount is the British spelling of font, and among typographers the words are
>synonymous, although few can agree on the definition. :-)

Among the typographers I know, a fount is a font family.  Times Roman
is a font family, and Times Roman italic and Times Roman bold are two
of its fonts.


>And there are some biology journals that are not set up to deal with
>submissions in TeX

True, but we have ways of dealing with these.

Unfortunately, some journal submission requirements are impossible to
meet:  it is not always possible to use only vanilla Times Roman as
distributed by Microsoft *and* submit a MS Word document complete with
all special characters.  Of course, this a problem for all authors,
not just those who use (La)TeX.


>If you are already using TeX, Una's suggestions are well-heeded.

Even if you are *not* using TeX, my suggestions are still relevant.

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        Una Smith

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