Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-12-03 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Michael Good / 2006/12/01 / 01:57 PM wrote: Make sure you have a real font that's really installed on your computer selected at the top of the box. You'll get an empty list like you describe if the font isn't available, or is somehow misinstalled. As I said, I am on native Windows 2000 Japanese,

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-12-01 Thread Michael Good
Hi Hiro, It's all blank, white, pitch white(!) Nothing I can select(!) Make sure you have a real font that's really installed on your computer selected at the top of the box. You'll get an empty list like you describe if the font isn't available, or is somehow misinstalled. If you still see a

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-30 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Michael Good / 2006/11/28 / 01:28 PM wrote: Go to any dialog box for setting fonts in WinFin and there will be a list box in the lower left-hand corner titled Script. It's all blank, white, pitch white(!) Nothing I can select(!) No wonder I couldn't find it, coz I can't see it at all :-( -- -

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-28 Thread Michael Good
Hi Hiro and Bruce, Not sure if I understand this. Is this a WinFin specific thing that I can't find? Yes, it is WinFin specific. And if you can't find it, Japanese text will indeed not work on WinFin. Go to any dialog box for setting fonts in WinFin and there will be a list box in the lower

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-26 Thread Bruce K H Kau
I may have found an answer at http://www.typenow.net/language.htm which is a site that has freeware fonts, including Hiragana and Katakana remapped onto 7-bit ASCII (i.e., pre-unicode) true type fonts. This looks like it will do the trick, but I need to play with this some. I really wish

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-26 Thread Bruce K H Kau
Sorry, I wasn't clear. What is happening is that this is a non-standard mapping, similar to the Symbol Font, or in Finale, the EngraverTextFont in which the characters are octets (eight bit). The mapping I speak of then treats the characters purely as glyphs. What I meant to say (without

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Bruce K H Kau / 2006/11/26 / 01:32 PM wrote: What I meant to say (without trying to be too technical) is that the characters themselves were mapped into the same character address-space as the 7-bit ASCII characters Oh, I see. Then it must be single byte. I totally understand that native

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-26 Thread Kurt Gnos
I had thought this was easy. I had it working. I had time to check today, it was a file on finale 3.5. Before XP, that is. I had it working using some japanese software extension on win98, I guess... Was it Twinbridge? I thought it would work with XP using Microsoft IME, but I installed and

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-26 Thread A-NO-NE Music
Kurt Gnos / 2006/11/26 / 04:55 PM wrote: I had it working using some japanese software extension on win98, I guess... Was it Twinbridge? Ah, good old Twinbridge, which was developed for and funded by US Library, a pseudo Unicode-like, runs on DOS. Twinbridge created own font and mapped them on

Re: [Finale] Japanese fonts - Hiragana or Katakana

2006-11-25 Thread Michael Good
Hi Hiro, Just make sure you did use double-byte Katakana in your example? Do you have other example which has Kanji? Our Japanese example includes Kanji text in the title as well as the Katakana lyrics. You may want to look at the XML to see the fonts that we used. I have found that choice