Dear Otfried,
thank you very much. I don't believe i remembered
to tell you that there is an article on Brodir of
Njals saga, St erasmus, etc. in the current volume
of hte "viking society for northern research"
(I have, in fact, been scooped!)
all the best,
meg
> 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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> Otfried Lieberknecht ([log in to unmask], http://www.lieberknecht.de)
> D-12163 Berlin, Schoeneberger Str. 11, tel. ++49 +30 8516675
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Margaret Cormack [log in to unmask]
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion fax: 843-953-6388
College of Charleston tel: 843-953-8033
Charleston, SC 29424-0001
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