doc:en:transliteration
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| To use a unicode font, you need to have a font with the correct signs. Currently, the possible free fonts are: | To use a unicode font, you need to have a font with the correct signs. Currently, the possible free fonts are: | ||
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| * EgyptoSerif, my own transliteration font. The signs are not very good looking, but they are in the correct place. | * EgyptoSerif, my own transliteration font. The signs are not very good looking, but they are in the correct place. | ||
| * Gentium Plus | * Gentium Plus | ||
| * New Athena Unicode (see the exact details) | * New Athena Unicode (see the exact details) | ||
| - | So, select a font for transliteration, and then, in the advanced option, check | ||
| {{ :doc:en:fontsprefsunicodetranslit.png?800 |}} | {{ :doc:en:fontsprefsunicodetranslit.png?800 |}} | ||
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| + | - You should open the “Preferences” menu (on the Mac, it's in the “JSesh” menu; elsewhere, it's under the “Edit Menu”). | ||
| + | - Go to the “Font Preferences” Tab. | ||
| + | - Select a font for transliteration | ||
| + | - open the "advanced option", and check "Unicode Transliteration fonts" | ||
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| + | ==== Current problems with unicode fonts ==== | ||
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| + | The current support in operating system and softwares for the transliteration fonts is not good. Even Java on the Mac - and hence, JSesh - has problems. | ||
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| + | The real problems are H̱ and yod | ||
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| + | === Capital H̱ === | ||
| + | On some systems, H̱ (as in the ram-god //H̱nmw//) displays poorly. It depends on the font **and** on the software **and** on the system. In most cases, it's ok. One annoying exception is that it doesn't give a good result with JSesh **on Mac OS X**. Apparently, the rendering system gives better results on Windows. Note that, if you paste your text in a word processor, you will probably get a good result anyway. | ||
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| + | === Yod === | ||
| + | Unicode gives you a number of choices. I selected the two best solutions (the third one, using a kind of half circle of the yod accent, is simply reproducing a trick used when people had typewriters, and hand-made their yods with "c" letters). The problem is that, technically, the support for those solution is lacking. | ||
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| ===== Not using unicode ===== | ===== Not using unicode ===== | ||
| You can select a font with a MdC-compatible encoding. In this case, JSesh does not deal with capital letters. You can choose your own font, if you have one, or use the default JSesh transliteration font. A version of this font is embedded in the software, but you can install it on your system (to use with a word processor, for instance). A copy of this font is available in the font folder of JSesh installation. | You can select a font with a MdC-compatible encoding. In this case, JSesh does not deal with capital letters. You can choose your own font, if you have one, or use the default JSesh transliteration font. A version of this font is embedded in the software, but you can install it on your system (to use with a word processor, for instance). A copy of this font is available in the font folder of JSesh installation. | ||
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