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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. |