I've purchased Adobe's OpenType version of its Mathematical
Pi fonts. There were 6 Type 1 fonts originally. Now you can
buy an inexpensive d/l package of the 6 and an OpenType
version of them all rolled into one. It's called
Mathematical Pi LT Std.
As you can imagine, for the OTF the encoding of most characters has
changed. I looked at the OpenType file in InDesign and
found 689 glyphs (the package says 690, so I must have
miscounted).
Then I opened it in MS Word 2003 for Windows. The Symbols insert chart shows only
476 characters. Unaccountably, many of the missing ones are
in the fraktur, script, outline and bold Greek alphabets,
and they're especially weak in A through G, upper and lower case. These include characters that I used in the most recent issue of my journal.
Anyway, something seems to have gone wrong in
Word's encoding of characters from this font. You can
see the gaps in Unicode character codes in Word's Symbol insert.
Have others found a way to display in Word all of the Math Pi font
that InDesign displays? Is this is a recognized problem with this font or with other OTFs used in Word?