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Subject:Number font needed From:"Daryl J. Gregory" <DGregory -at- MINITAB -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 25 Aug 1995 15:42:31 EDT
I've been lurking on this list for a while, and now I need some help...
I'm looking for a dingbat-style font in which the numbers (a white number in
a black circle, say) are mapped to number keys. For example, typing "1" on
the keyboard displays a white "1" in a black circle.
Does anyone know of a font that maps to the regular number order? All the
dingbat fonts I've looked at map the numbers to either an ansi code
combination or a letter (one annoying font mapped the numbers to QWERTY
order). I'm looking for Type 1 fonts for Windows (TrueType for Windows in a
pinch).
Here's the larger problem I'm trying to solve, in case someone knows of a
creative workaround. We're matching numbered steps in a text section to a
graphic somewhere else on the page that uses numbered callouts (for example,
"1. Click the framis" corresponds to a stylized "1" with an arrow pointing
to the picture of the framis). In FrameMaker, we want each numbered callout
to be a cross-reference to the paragraph number of the paragraph that
describes it--that way, if we insert a step, the numbered callout
automatically changes.
If you have any ideas, send them to me at dgregory -at- minitab -dot- com and then I'll
post a summary to the list. Thanks!
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Daryl Gregory "Reality is that which, when you stop
dgregory -at- minitab -dot- com believing in it, doesn't go away."--Philip K. Dick
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