How to add a dot above character ?

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    • #86787
      Mat Nova
      Member

      Hi
      I have many greek letters ‘omega’ in text and i need to add a dot above them (it seems that its mathematical sign). How can i do this ?

    • #86788
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      It’s very easy if you have a sharp pencil or a good pen.
      Just kidding! :-)
      This might help: https://creativepro.com/finding-and-changing-glyphs.php
      (That assumes that there is such a character in your font… an omega with a dot over it)

    • #86790

      According to this post elsewhere
      https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=48069
      you’ll need U+03C9 GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA, followed by U+0307 COMBINING DOT ABOVE
      and a font that supports “combining dot above”

      Works for me with Lucida Grande, Helvetica Neue (on OS X 10.9)

      • #86791
        Mat Nova
        Member

        Thank for help, but problem is that its not a small omega letter but big one. Of course it doesnt exist as separatelly font character.
        Am I in dark as# ?

        ps.
        ok..i used Illustrator and EPS file inserted in every instance of this character..terrible..

    • #86794

      Still works for me with GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA U+03A9, followed by the combining dot.

      For clarity, the capital omega looks like the one used for a logo by the watch company, and the small omega looks a bit like a curly W.

      Aha, problem: I was trying it out in TextEdit, but in InDesign, the dot crashes into the character, isn’t high enough to avoid the top of the capital omega… hmm.

      Workaround:
      use Character Viewer to insert the capital omega,
      click baseline shift (about 3 pt depending on font size),
      go back to Character Viewer to insert the combining dot above,
      pick a font that displays it OK.

      Maybe.

      Chris.

      Edit after seeing your edited reply: almost as terrible as the solution for the Welsh W+circumflex, when a client insisted that we had to use a font that didn’t contain that letter. We had to insert a floating circumflex and use insane amounts of kerning to float it into position (different amounts for different font sizes), then copy-paste every instance!

    • #86812
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Wow, using an Illustrator EPS is a sad solution. Ouch.

      This script would have helped: https://creativepro.com/easy-diacritics-and-other-tough-glyphs.php

      Once you have one of them, you could probably copy it and then use find/change to replace the others… see tip #5 here: https://creativepro.com/10-findchange-tips.php

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