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Asian and Latin fonts
I have documents which are a mix of Asian and Latin fonts and I am having difficulty with footnotes and endnotes. Their numbersare in roman numbers and can be used in the midst of both the Asian and the Latin text passages. The first difficulty I have encountered is if I want to change the Asian font style say by increasing the font size then when I try to do this the footnote/endnote numbers change font size as well
For example I start with font size 18
then I change the font style on only the asian font part using a style which puts the asian font to size 10 , but the asian font does not change but the Latin font does
Clearly something is not set correctly - but what?
My second question is regarding the Font dialog - this is how I currently have it set. But I am not entirely sure what the boxes marked actually do
and would much appreciate clarification and each and/ or good tutorial link for using mixed font registers in general.
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Also it appears for now to me that when they Microsoft about Asian fonts they may well mean Far East Asian fonts only ie Chinese, Japanese etc, and that Indian fonts ie Devanagari etc fall under what they call Complex fonts - do you or anyone else know if this is correct?
Doug, thanks for the reply, I don't usually want to change the whole sentence or paragraph, mostly its only a few words . I've been experimenting with setting up a completely new theme for these documents as this type of mixed font document is giving me issues with foot and end notes as well when it comes to editing styles . The Microsoft documentation and help pages on this is in my opinion particularly poor .
Thanks for the reply Doug but I often only want to change a few words within the paragraph, not the whole paragraph. I often cannot select the whole paragraph because there are footnotes or endnotes within the paragraph on individual words. If I select the whole paragraph to change the font size it will change the numerical reference to the footnote and endnote also, which is not what is wanted.
I'm not really understanding all the settings here - do you, or anyone, know of a clear explanation for setting up styles, fonts for when working with mixed multiple script documents? I find Microsoft help page unintelligible and they don't have pictorial examples of what I'm trying to do or an example I can relate to .
For a start, I need a clear definition of the heading used in the Font dialog pop I showed above.Select, or at least, include, the pilcrow at the end of the text when changing the font size. That is, select the whole paragraph, which is easily done by triple left-clicking when the selection is somewhere in the paragraph.
