Kenneth Whistler Said;
I'd say it might be best to let Sarasvati, in her wisdom,
judge what is spam or otherwise prohibited for this list,
and those who are interested can go discuss with Lateef
Sagar whether his Arabic web site hosting solution works
or whatever...
I agree with Mr. Kenneth
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 17:38:06 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That sounds, then, like these are *not* two of the left-stemmed tone
letters (mirrors of 02E5..02E9) that I'm going to be including in a
proposal for additional modifier characters for tone.
I noticed that in Yuan Jiahua's
I wonder what Quark would do if we all wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
ask for Unicode support.
At 11:54 +0530 2003-06-20, Quark Tech. Support wrote:
Dear Michael,
Thank you for your response.
Michael, I thank you for your continuous trust and patronage for our
product. Let me first apologize
does anyone know of a simple, explanatory web page, aimed at not too
technical people, based on sending *accessible* email, and if really
necessary attachments and the problems related to attachments
(specifically inaccessibly, not viruses).
i'm looking for a nice concise web page that i
Andrew C. West wrote on 06/20/2003 03:59:10 AM:
I noticed that in Yuan Jiahua's authoritative overview of Chinese
dialects,
_Hanyu Fangyan Gaiyao_ (2nd ed., 1980), he uses left-stemmed mirrors of
the
ordinary right-stemmed tone marks to indicate tone sandhi, the unmutated
tone
having a right
Edward,
thanks for the response. Is it possible to integrate glyph for
bold and italic in arialuni.ttf or can I have one font which support all
the languages and also have related glyph for bold and italic.
Bold and italic need to be separate font files, and these do not exist for
Arial
Ken Whistler wrote on 06/19/2003 01:35:14 PM:
P.S. Is somebody collecting the 'Every character has a story'
stories?
It's a small start, and I can't guarantee how far it will get developed.
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsiitem_id=CatUnicodeCharacterStories
- Peter
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 08:28:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hard to say without seeing them, but if they are simply contours, then
those are already supported in Unicode by means of ligatures of the five
already there. If it's something else, go ahead and send me the scan (with
bibliographic
Andrew C. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/20/2003
09:14:35 AM:
It hadn't occurred to me that these contoured tone marks could be
represented in
Unicode by means of ligatures. Are there any fonts that currently support
such
ligatures ?
The bigger question is, can your software access the
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:27:34 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The bigger question is, can your software access the ligatures?
Works like a dream with Uniscribe 1.453.3665.0 and later.
Andrew
Michael Everson wrote:
I wonder what Quark would do if we all wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to
ask for Unicode support.
Good idea. I just did. But, Quark is just the tip of the iceberg. I
still need a good (Mac OS X) database that can do Unicode Chinese
(including supplemental planes). Any
A few years ago, we put together a book of background reading for a
workshop we were doing on implementing writing systems on computers using
current technologies. The readings consisted of a collection of items that
had been prepared by different authors, but there was some coordination of
topics
- Original Message -
From: Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Edward H Trager' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 6:37 PM
Subject: RE: Problem with Arial Unicode MS font for BOLD/ITALICS
in PDF
Edward,
thanks for the response. Is it
At 22:29 +0200 2003-06-20, Philippe Verdy wrote:
I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers
are not used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the
placement of diacritic points.
It sounds as though you are guessing.
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography
At 17:03 -0400 2003-06-20, John Cowan wrote:
Michael Everson scripsit:
I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers
are not used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the
placement of diacritic points.
It sounds as though you are guessing.
Well, I certainly
Philippe Verdy,
But it's true that complex scripts like Han will be poorly rendered in Bold
or Italic... But does someone actually wants to read Han text with Bold
characters (or even worse slanted with Italic) ?
What is true is that use of italicized text is unusual
in Chinese or Japanese
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 02:04, Michael Everson wrote:
Roozbeh informs me that oblique [Naskh] is a standard things
nowadays, specially since it can usually be done automatically in
software. Both slanted and backslanted. Certainly I saw italic
signage in Kabul.
Just to confirm.
BTW, one of
At 14:44 -0700 2003-06-20, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are not
used to it.
For body text, in documents or on web pages, I would agree.
A wide range of oblique styles have been used in many Indian scripts
for a very long time now.
On Friday, June 20, 2003, at 02:44 , Kenneth Whistler wrote:
What is true is that use of italicized text is unusual
in Chinese or Japanese body text--certainly not with the frequency
or same range of functions as occurs in Latin typography.
Bold text is not that unusual, however.
In precomputer
At 16:45 -0700 2003-06-20, Richard Cook wrote:
Of course, in pop e-print, nearly everything that can be done to a
character is done ... including Bold-Ital-Outline-Shadow ...
Hey, there's no reason only Latin typography should be filled with vulgarism...
--
Michael Everson * * Everson Typography
Philippe Verdy wrote on 06/20/2003 03:29:17 PM:
I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are
not
used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the placement
of diacritic points.
Thai type designers are extremely creative and not afraid of doing with
Thai
Jain, Pankaj (MED, TCS) wrote:
I am generating the PDF using XSLFO/FOP and Arial Unicode MS font
for Global languages.And during Implementation I found that Bold/Italics
character are not appearing in bold/Italic in PDF which was coming
there is any Issue with Arial Unicode Font for
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