At 11:38 16.01.00 -0500, you wrote:
>Another editing query:
>Does anyone out there know how to print transliterated arabic
>(or sanskrit) using microsoft Word? The problem is that a number
>of letters in the arabic alphabet are transliterated by latin
>letters with dots underneath, and I cannot figure out how to get
>the dots in! If anyone knows of a font which will do this, please
>advise!
>thanks in advance,
>meg
Dear Margaret,
I had the same problem several years ago, yet to a very limited extent,
because I only wanted to print a few Arabic names in transliterated form.
As I wanted a freeware solution, I used fonts designed by the Summer
Institute of Linguistics for noting the International Phonetic Alphabet,
because these include some of the dots and odd diacritic marks that I
needed. They are still available for download at the SIL website:
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/comp.speech/Section1/Fonts/sil.ipa.html
But this was never a very satisfying solution, because it was difficult and
needed much patience to place the diacritics where they belonged.
In the meantime, there seems to be a more comfortable solution available in
the public domain: ORIENTfont, a true type font based on Times Roman and
which offers, in addition to the standard Latin set of characters, these
same characters combined with their diacritic marks. I don't know enough
about Arabic to say if these diacritics are complete or if some of the more
rare combinations are lacking, but in any case it seems to be a better
solution than my IPA fonts. You can download them at the following URL:
http://www.edesign.demon.co.uk/orientf.zip
To install them, extract the contents of this package (two ttf-files) to
your Windows/fonts directory (assuming that you are using Windows). To
apply them to your text, then select "Times Dot" from your font menu.
Yours,
Otfried
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