Reply To: Very specific Glyph problem with Amazon letters

Hi Marina, your reply came too late after I’d finished for the day.

You’re nearly there.
In general terms the find criteria = “any character that has a strikethrough” and the replace = “what you just found, plus the combining character, minus the strikethrough”.

In detail, in the Advanced F+R…

in the Find box, Special menu: “Any character” = caret and question mark (^?)
Format menu: Font: Strikethrough checked

in the Replace box, Special menu: “Find What Text” = caret and ampersand (^&) plus Combining Short Stroke Overlay* (on my Mac, inserted via the Emoji & Symbols palette**; on Windows presumably via the character palette or equivalent)
Format menu: Font: Strikethrough unchecked

*or the Long version, depending on taste – might be worth experimenting with the look of the strokes before committing yourself.

That’s my workaround to the messiness of the strikethrough. But is this the correct way to do it? Is there even a standard way? I couldn’t find much about alphabets for Amazonian languages, and I don’t know what the stroke signifies, or which letters it can be applied to. Note that there are also a few pre-existing Latin letters with strokes as precomposed Unicode letters, e.g. U+0268 LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH STROKE
** you can search the Emoji & Symbols palette for the word “stroke” and it shows you which are available – that’s how I quickly found the stroke overlay characters, by searching for “overlay”

I do like an obscure problem to solve!
Good luck,
Chris.