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TylerBrady
Community Member
8 years ago

Macrons in Rise

We are trying to create a course that has A LOT of words with macrons. Using the default fonts in Rise, the letters with macrons appear much smaller, and look quite messy.  Does anybody have a fix...
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AlyssaGomez's avatar
AlyssaGomez
Staff
6 years ago

Hello, Theo and Emma! Did you have any luck using Transfonter as Paul suggested above? 

I've spent a few hours trying to resolve problems with macrons. Thanks to Articulate support here's what we found...

  1. The instructions "follow these steps" suggested using FontSquirrel. The FontSquirrel process stripped out some language macrons. So try Transfonter.
  2. Use FontDrop to check your new woff files to see if they have the extended set. You can type the macron and see if it appears.
  3. When naming a custom font in Rise, don't include spaces. There is no error message about this. So I thought the error was in my font file.
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    TheoBrandt
    Community Member
    6 years ago

    Hi Alyssa, I too saw the comment regarding font squirrel and naming of fonts , so had no problems.

    The end result is acceptable, although the slightly bolder text of the macronised font is more apparent in the headings. (see attached image).

    Would be nice if we could have a default perfect macronised font or two to choose from wouldn’t it 😊

    Cheers

    Theo
    Theo Brandt
    Communications Manager
    The Immunisation Advisory Centre
    The University of Auckland

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