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• • July 21, 2016 at 3:20 pm #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 ?

  • July 21, 2016 at 3:33 pm #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)

  • July 22, 2016 at 12:43 am #86790
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    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)

    • July 22, 2016 at 1:29 am #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..

  • July 22, 2016 at 1:52 am #86794
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    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!

  • July 22, 2016 at 5:18 pm #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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