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A manuscript I am working on in Quark 5 contains two Turkish characters, s with cedille and g with a little hook on top. The font contains both, but I can't get them to be displayed by copying and pasting them.

During research, I found out that many special characters can be inserted in Quark using alt+character code (like alt+0235 for ë). For those two Turkish characters I haven't been able to find the appropriate code, however.

Any help would be much appreciated.

PS. I use Windows 2000.

Hi Xenzi,

Unfortunately those characters are not supported in QuarkXPress version 5 because Windows QuarkXPress version 5 only supports Win ANSI codepage.
They are however supported in QuarkXPress version 6 Supplemental Language Edition or QuarkXPress version 7 (recommended) which is a Unicode application.

You can download an evaluation copy of QuarkXPress version 7 from: http://www.quark.com/service/desktop/downloads/details.jsp?idx=721

Regards,

Kaoru Uno
QuarkXPress Technical Product Management
Quark, Inc.

I have Quark 8, but still don't know which particular fonts have Turkish characters available. Do you? And do these fonts come with Quark?

Did you ever find a font to use in Quark to write in Turkish?

 Hello

I'm not an English language native, my language contains a lot of special characters and I had in the last similar problems.

Working on Windows, it's good to know you can use for text input in Quark three types of fonts: TrueType (those named .ttf), postscript fonts ( those with .pfm and .pfb extension) and OpenType fonts (those named .otf). All are supported by Windows.

Now, it's good to know that there are different standards for asigning codes for each character in fonts. In early years, there were not special characters specific for certain languages at all. Now there are new standards which help us to write in any language we want.

The problem is to have:

- fonts with extended sets of characters;

- software that support and can use these fonts.

The two characters named by Xenzi do not belong to the old ANSI standard, but they are included in new OpenType fonts. Check in your \Windows\Fonts\ directory and look to the .otf files. Well, these files are also made by their creators in two "varieties": standard and "pro" versions. With a few exceptions, the term "Pro" appears in the name of the font.

Now, about Quark: v.5 does not "understand" the extended set of characters in fonts, that is why you need a "modified" font file with old ANSI style, but localized for Turkish language (I know, it's oddly!)

The newer versions of Quark (7 and 8) are capable to work with new "Pro" versions of OpenType font files, and special characters can be input in the layout by double-clicking in the Glyphs palette. Also this palette can be used to "discover" what special characters or other 'dings' a font containes.

Quark (any version) does not have any font in its installation kit. But if you have on you computer Photoshop v.7 or above installed, it's a great chance for you to have some "Pro" versions of OTF files.

I hope I could make you understand.