42 Chapter 3
Selecting and Editing Characters in a Document
After you have entered characters, you
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ay n eed to change the
m
. In gene ral, you use the
standard
m
ethods for selecting and editing text on your Mac
O
S
co
m
puter.
H
ere are so
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e points to k eep in
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ind:
m If you have not co
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pleted entering the character, you can press the
D
elete key to delete
the previous key you pressed.
m If you enter a character and want to enter the sa
m
e character again, choose Enter
Character Again fro
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th e Pencil
m
enu.
m If you double-click a Chinese character t hat is part of a phrase or a two-byte
R
o
m
an
character that is part of a word, only th at character is selecte d, not t he entire phrase or
word.
m If you are using a Ch inese input
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ode and you click in an area with
R
o
m
an text, the input
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ethod selects a
R
o
m
an keyboard.
m If you are us ing a
R
o
m
an keyboard and you click in an area with Chinese text, the Chinese
input
m
ethod is selected.
Entering Your Own Chinese Characters
You can use the TrueTyp e Font Editor to create your own special Chinese char acters and save
the
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in font files
(
suitcas es
)
. You can then enter these characters in your docu
m
ents. You
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ight want to create a special Chines e character for the na
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e of a co
m
pany or person. To
learn how to use the TrueType Font Editor, see the
“
About TrueType Font Editor
”
file in t he
Chinese
U
tilities folder in the Apple Extras folder.
After creating t he character and saving it in a f ont suitcase, you
m
ust place the suitcase in the
Fonts fold er in the
S
yste
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Folder on your co
m
puter and restart your co
m
puter.
To enter the characte r you have created in a docu
m
ent, follow these steps:
1 Choose the font you created to use in your docu
m
ent.
H
ow you do this depends on the application you are using. In
S
i
m
pleText, you cho ose the
font fro
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th e Font
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enu.
2 Choose
S
how
U
ser
D
efined Char acters fro
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th e Pencil
m
enu.
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