Comments on: Easy Diacritics and Other Tough Glyphs

By: Peter Kahrel

Peter Kahrel — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:51:34 +0000

Ir,

I saw your comment on Cyrillc and Greek just now (a year and a half after you posted). I do have a version for classical Greek, but never posted that because I didn’t think there was much interest in it. You’re welcome to it, so drop me a line if you want it.

By: Diane Audrey Wallis

Diane Audrey Wallis — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:42:07 +0000

Working on a href=”" titleIstanbul Architecture=”" in InDesign CS3 (Mac) set in Rotis Sans Serif (part of a series in English but with addresses, buildings and some building terms also in Turkish), this post saved my life. Thank you Anne-Marie Concepcion for pointing me in the right direction. I was still having trouble with a cap I with a dot above. Our author reckoned that my amateur solution of an i at 125% of vertical scale looked odd. He was dead right. I emailed Peter Kahrel and he helped me find a way. In the ‘help’ dialog box of his script you type in I and a full-stop and press return (enter) and it works like magic. PK I owe you.

By: Diane Audrey Wallis

Diane Audrey Wallis — Fri, 14 May 2010 09:38:33 +0000

Working on Istanbul Architecture in InDesign CS3 (Mac) set in Rotis Sans Serif (part of a series in English but with addresses, buildings and some building terms also in Turkish), this post saved my life. Thank you Anne-Marie Concepcion for pointing me in the right direction. I was still having trouble with a cap I with a dot above. Our author reckoned that my amateur solution of an i at 125% of vertical scale looked odd. He was dead right. I emailed Peter Kahrel and he helped me find a way. In the ‘help’ dialog box of his script you type in I and a full-stop and press return (enter) and it works like magic. PK I owe you.

By: Queda de cabelo

Queda de cabelo — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:03:09 +0000

Very good article! I like it very much!

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:55:26 +0000

Kevin, I just want to make sure: You have the text cursor flashing inside a text frame, right?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:38:14 +0000

I can’t seem to get the compose script to work with my InDesign CS4 for windows.

I have followed you instructions but when I run the script nothing happens.

Please help, I am currently working with several hundred pages of Polish text and this would save me a lot of time if I can get it to work.

By: Marek J

Marek J — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:16:08 +0000

Very very very very cool! Just saved me a TON of time! Thank you for describing this.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:55:38 +0000

For rare diacritics (ie weird phonics), the easiest I’ve found is to work with the font. Using something like FontCreator, open the font and add a glyph, copying pieces from other glyphs. Check the font license though.

By: Don Ayer

Don Ayer — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:32:20 +0000

It looks like Peter has updated the script and the updates have made incompatible with InDesign CS2. I downloaded your InCopy version of the script and changed “#target incopy” back to “#target indesign” and it seems to work great!

By: Queda de Cabelo

Queda de Cabelo — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:26:17 +0000

Thanks for this tip Anne!

Its pretty easy to do with the script!