Apothecary symbols...

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

If you'd like to have a font available to you that has apothecary symbols 
in, here's a top tip - the font you want is "Lucida Sans Unicode" (LSU).

However, LSU is normally only installed with Windows XP. Luckily for the 
rest of us mortals who have remained unswayed by Microsoft's persuasive 
advertising, here's a link to a page that has it:-

	http://wolf.project-w.com/lang/test/unitest.php

The only thing to be careful of here is that if you just click on the link 
("Lucida Sans Unicode") to the ttf ("True Type Font") file, ie...

	http://wolf.project-w.com/lang/test/l_10646.ttf

you'll simply *view it*... which probably isn't what you actually wanted. 
To *install it* (in Microsoft Explorer), right click on the link and select 
the "Save Target As..." option. Then save the .ttf into your 
"C:\Windows\Fonts\" directory (or wherever your fonts are stored) and you 
should be OK.

People with other browsers should be able to figure out their own version 
of this without any difficulty. :-)

As a test, I've just tried the apothecary symbol for "ounce" right now 
(which I've been looking at in Isabella Cortese's "Secreti" all evening at 
the British Library), so I'm pretty sure this works. :-)

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....