Insert glyphs and special characters – Adobe InDesign CS3 User Manual
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Open the Glyphs panel
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Choose Type > Glyphs or Window> Type & Tables > Glyphs.
Change the Glyphs panel view
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Click the cycle widget (it’s located to the left of the word “Glyphs” on the Glyphs panel) to change views of the
panel. Clicking the widget presents these views in succession: the collapsed panel, the entire panel, and the panel
without recently used glyphs.
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Click the Zoom In or Zoom Out buttons in the lower right corner of the Glyphs panel.
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Resize the Glyphs panel by dragging the lower right corner.
Filter the glyphs that appear
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Do one of the following on the Show list to determine which glyphs appear on the Glyphs panel:
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Choose Entire Font to display all glyphs available in the font.
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Choose an option below Entire Font to narrow the list to a subset of glyphs. For example, Punctuation displays
only punctuation glyphs; Math Symbols narrows the choices to mathematical symbols.
Sort glyphs in the Glyphs panel
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Choose By CID / GID or By Unicode to determine how glyphs are sorted in the Glyphs panel.
Insert glyphs and special characters
A glyph is a specific form of a character. For example, in certain fonts, the capital letter A is available in several forms,
such as swash and small cap. You can use the Glyphs panel to locate any glyph in a font.
OpenType fonts such as Adobe Caslon™ Pro provide multiple glyphs for many standard characters. Use the Glyphs
panel when you want to insert these alternate glyphs in your document. You can also use the Glyphs panel to view
and insert OpenType attributes such as ornaments, swashes, fractions, and ligatures.
See also
“Glyphs panel overview” on page 147
Insert a glyph from a specified font
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Using the Type tool, click to place the insertion point where you want to enter a character.
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Choose Type > Glyphs to display the Glyphs panel.
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To display a different set of characters in the Glyphs panel, do any of the following:
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Select a different font and type style, if available. From the Show menu, choose Entire Font. Or, if you selected an
OpenType font, choose from a number of OpenType categories.
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Choose a custom glyph set from the Show menu. (See “Create and edit custom glyph sets” on page 150.)
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Scroll through the display of characters until you see the glyph you want to insert. If you selected an OpenType
font, you can display a pop-up menu of alternate glyphs by clicking and holding the glyph box.
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Double-click the character you want to insert. The character appears at the text insertion point.