Office 2000 & Crystal Physics Symbols

From: Magda Danish (Unicode) (v-magdad@microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 1999 - 11:50:11 EDT


Can anyone from Microsoft help answer this question?

Magda Danish - Administrative Director
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<Leo writes>

"Hello,

I work in the Institute of Crystallography Russian Academy of Science.
I write a database using Access with Visual Basic.

I have to place information about crystals grown in the Institute in my
database. As you probably know, crystallography and crystal physics use
many special symbols, which are absent in ordinary fonts.

My problem became even more complicated because of impossibility of linking
up two ore more fonts to Access tables.

All the symbols must be in one very long multisymbol font.
All ordinary fonts are one-byte fonts, i.e. consists of 256 symbols. This
number is too small for me.

A few days ago I saw on the Internet, that in Microsoft Office 2000 there
is Universal Font containing more than 40000 symbols. This font is my
dream!!!!!

I bought Microsoft Office 2000 on 2 CD-ROMs. I read Access help files and
received some information about this font. But I couldn't install this font
from my disks, because the font is somehow absent on the disks.

I know, that there is a complete version of Microsoft Office 2000 on 4
disks. May be this font is on 3 or 4 disk or something.

Could you possibly locate this 'majic' font in all four disks?

Thank you very much. Excuse my bad English.

Leo"

leva-liberant@mtu-net.ru



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