chapter 13 Special Characters
and Special Situations
Desktop programs designate as “special characters” the ones that aren’t
printed on your keyboard (in other words, those outside the ascii character
set). The only thing that makes these characters special is that computer sys-
tems treat them like second-class citizens.
How to get these characters onto your pages is covered in “Finding the
Characters You Need,” in Chapter 4. In this chapter, we’ll look at what to do
with them once you’ve found them.
Extended Character Sets
Most typefaces contain several hundred characters, although a single typeface
can contain thousands. A number of True
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