Classical Greek on a Mac

2001-04-03 Thread Marco Piovanelli
Hi folks, I need to edit text in classical Greek on a mac, and eventually generate PDF files from it. I guess I could use a Unicode-savvy, ATSUI-based application like the free WorldText utility that comes with OS 9.1, but there are two missing ingredients: 1. Fonts. Where can I find

Code2001 (RE: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1)

2001-04-03 Thread Marco Cimarosti
James Kass wrote: Here is a freeware Plane One font for testing: http://home.att.net/~jameskass/code2001.htm Included are Old Italic, Deseret, and Gothic, as well as a few other items extrapolated from the Roadmap and preliminary proposals. Constructive comments are welcome. (I know that

Re: Classical Greek on a Mac

2001-04-03 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
--On Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:14:13 +0200 Marco Piovanelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I could use a Unicode-savvy, ATSUI-based application like the free WorldText utility that comes with OS 9.1, but there are two missing ingredients: 1. Fonts. Where can I find

Re: Classical Greek on a Mac

2001-04-03 Thread David J. Perry
Marco, 1. Fonts. Where can I find freeware/shareware quality fonts covering the Extended Greek range? I have a freeware Unicode font that includes polytonic Greek plus lots of other stuff. At this moment it exists only in a Windows version, but I am planning to produce a Mac

Re: Code2001 (RE: The Unicode Standard, Version 3.1)

2001-04-03 Thread James Kass
Marco Cimarosti wrote: Thanks: a great work! Thank you! Unluckily, I am totally unable to see the extended planes glyphs in Windows NT, but I understand from other peoples' comments that it will work fine as soon as I step to Windows 2000. I see that Code2001 is missing most of the

Re: Classical Greek on a Mac

2001-04-03 Thread Otto Stolz
Am 1909-3-22 um 5:47 hat Marco Piovanelli geschrieben: Where can I find freeware/shareware quality fonts covering the Extended Greek range? You will need a font that covers both the Greek and Extended Greek range. http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts_mac.html does not list any.

Re: Classical Greek on a Mac

2001-04-03 Thread John Jenkins
On Tuesday, April 3, 2001, at 04:47 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote: 2. Keyboards. Are there any Unicode keyboards/ input methods for polytonic Greek? Nope. You'll need to use the hex-based input method. At one point I set out to create a Unicode keyboard layout for polytonic Greek,

Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-03 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
Dear friends, You can find a proposal for encoding Iranian Rial sign in Unicode at: http://developer.sharif.edu/farsiweb/proposal/rial.html We really appreciate your ideas and comments. Please send them personally to me (or to the list if it may be benefical for others). I will send

Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-03 Thread 11digitboy
If they don't put it in this minute, there is something WRONG. It is a CURRENCY symbol, for Pete's sake! I mean, DOLLAR SIGN is not LATIN LETTER S WITH STROKE And it is *UNI*code Oh. You didn't tell us whether it goes to the left or to the right of the digits, did you? And it is

Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-03 Thread DougEwell2
In a message dated 2001-04-03 16:25:22 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You can find a proposal for encoding Iranian Rial sign in Unicode at: http://developer.sharif.edu/farsiweb/proposal/rial.html I would think you would want this symbol to be encoded in the Currency

Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Robert, More and more people are of the opinion with each message that if they do not remove you from the Unicode List that there is in fact something wrong. You need to stop this sort of nonsense. NEVER has the UTC refused to look at a proposal, but do you think that somehow procedure is

Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

2001-04-03 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
Like Doug, I am a little curious as to the decision on where the symbol would go... would you really want it in the presentation forms that are merely for backwards compatibility? I think there are two options for currency symbols: 1) In the curreny Symbols block if there is even the remotest