BUG: default font doesn't display character

Shouldn't the default handle all common characters?

Oakes, Peter. Galatians. Edited by Mikeal C. Parsons, Charles H. Talbert, and Bruce W. Longenecker. Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2015.

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NB.Mick

Shouldn't the default handle all common characters?

In my Paideia Ephesians/Colossians the 𝔓 character displays nicely (L6 running the default font with serifes).

Copied over to MS Word it shows as LogosSymbolUnicode, i.e. not the default display font. Could it be that font is not properly installed on your machine? I vaguely remember other forum threads with issues around that font, which Logos also uses for aparatus markers and such.

MJ. Smith

Could be ... what a nuisance that it hasn't installed correctly.

George Somsel

Shouldn't the default handle all common characters?

What is the default font? I use KadmosU for everything except Hebrew.

NB.Mick

Shouldn't the default handle all common characters?

What is the default font? I use KadmosU for everything except Hebrew.

The default font is Skolar. Not sure how this font (works only in Logos unless bought) goes about the old-German-looking characters - and it seems, the 𝔓 in question was not formatted "default" in the firstplace.

NB: Default sans serif font is the same as the UI font, Source Sans Pro, which does display the 𝔓 in MJ's screenshot.

George Somsel

The default font is Skolar. Not sure how this font (works only in Logos unless bought) goes about the old-German-looking characters - and it seems, the 𝔓 in question was not formatted "default" in the firstplace.

That's strange since I don't seem to have skolar in my fonts directory.

NB.Mick

That's strange since I don't seem to have skolar in my fonts directory.

Neither do I. Some time ago Faithlife decided no longer to ship the fonts necessary for Logos (meaning: they were installed and subsequently available for all programs - i.e. sitting in the fonts direcory as you expected) but to embed them so that they only work in Logos. Possibly this was the time they switched to Skolar since Skolar is not a free font, so it's probably a much less expensive license to embed it than to ship it.

For some reason they not only did this, but also removed all fonts they previously had shipped from the systems those were installed on - which I still regard as intrusive, unnecessary and (since it happened unannounced) somewhat stupid, since it led to avoidable production issues for users. Meanwhile we got this support page: https://www.logos.com/support/logos6/windows/missing-fonts

Philana R. Crouch

6.14 Beta 1 should fix this issue.