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====== Transliteration ====== | ====== Transliteration ====== | ||
- | Editing transliteration should be a simple affair. After all, it only use a few alphabetic signs. Alas, it isn't. | + | Editing transliteration should be a simple affair. After all, it only uses a few alphabetic signs. Alas, it isn't. |
In the MdC, a simple, ASCII-based standard was used. But this standard requires special fonts, where "a" are not "a" but "ayin". | In the MdC, a simple, ASCII-based standard was used. But this standard requires special fonts, where "a" are not "a" but "ayin". | ||
This lead to many problem when texts where exchanged. Passing from Mac to PC was a real problem, and publishers were very unhappy. | This lead to many problem when texts where exchanged. Passing from Mac to PC was a real problem, and publishers were very unhappy. | ||
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Normally, Unicode should solve all those problems((as I have written elsewhere, I feel that Unicode for Hieroglyphs is a whole different business)). So, currently, JSesh proposes choices to the user. Your personal choice will depend on what you want to do with your texts. It's quite likely that unicode is needed for most publications, for instance. | Normally, Unicode should solve all those problems((as I have written elsewhere, I feel that Unicode for Hieroglyphs is a whole different business)). So, currently, JSesh proposes choices to the user. Your personal choice will depend on what you want to do with your texts. It's quite likely that unicode is needed for most publications, for instance. | ||
- | You can choose the way transliteration will be dealt with from the Preference menu. | + | You can choose the way transliteration will be dealt with from the Preferences menu. |
===== Using a unicode font ===== | ===== Using a unicode font ===== | ||
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- Go to the “Font Preferences” Tab. | - Go to the “Font Preferences” Tab. | ||
- Select a font for transliteration | - Select a font for transliteration | ||
- | - open the "advanced option", and check "Unicode Transliteration fonts" | + | - Open the "show options" panel, and check "Unicode Transliteration font" |
==== Current problems with unicode fonts ==== | ==== Current problems with unicode fonts ==== | ||