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Special fonts are fonts, usually decorative or graphical, almost always custom-made, that are imported into Q++, where additional information about each of their characters is saved, making it easier to use these fonts.
Special fonts are used in :
•Symbol Font of a Holidays Set : Many diary editors use a custom-made special symbol font to represent holidays occurrences in various countries. These fonts can be used in the Holidays Manager, without importing them as special fonts. However, importing them makes it easier to select the appropriate symbol for a given country, and allows you to import holidays where the textual reprersentation of each symbol is automatically converted to the appropriate symbol.
•Display Font of a Language : since the number of words used in a diary grid is often much less than 100, diary editors have traditionally used single-byte western fonts (limited to about 200 characters), with one full word placed in each character, to allow them to produce diaries in languages that would otherwise require Unicode fonts (requiring up to 32000 characters) such as Arabic, Japanese, Chinese and Korean. The advantage of this solution, as compared to the use of Unicode fonts, is that you do not need a special input software (IME) to enter these characters, all your Windows software is garanteed to word since it is a "normal" font, and you save money by avoiding the need to purchase the extremely expensive specific versions of QuarkXPress for Japanese, Chinese, ...
Q++ is shipped with the following special fonts : Q++Holidays, Q++Arabic and Q++Chinese. At the end of this section, we will also discuss how to create special fonts.
Note that fonts used to display various European character sets (Latin, Baltic, Eastern European, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish) and some other non-Western languages (Georgian, for exampe) are not special fonts as their useage in Q++ is done natively. These fonts are discussed in the Fonts chapter.