A new PrintDraft question

Question

I’m trying to help someone with PrintDraft in a project using the Syriac script. The problem they have is they use hyphens in the text, and these do not render, they appear as “missing glyph” type boxes. Other Latin block punctuation marks, like comma, period and colon don’t have problems, only hyphens. What could be the issue?

Answer 1

Pretty much the only thing that can cause the “missing glyph” box to appear is if whatever they are using for a hyphen is not in the font or if they have a print draft change file that changes the hyphens to something else that isn’t in the font - like a emdash or something. It might even show up in Paratext just fine because, I think, the underlying browser control that it uses can replace missing glyphs with ones from another font in certain circumstances.

Comments

Phil Leckrone showed me how to check the font in Character Map. It turns out it does not have the “regular” hyphen but does have the U+2010 hyphen. If the project uses that character, it appears in Print Draft.

Answer 2

My solution would be to create a printDraftChanges.txt file in the project folder.
Include this line:
’-’ > '\u2010’
All the “regular” hyphens will be changed to the U+2010 hyphen before printing.

Comments

CrazyRocky, I thought of that. But the users also said they didn’t see the hyphen
appear in Paratext (they have 7.4), so I figured changing in the text would
also be a useful thing.

sewhite
International Language Technology Consultant