From: Marion Gunn (mgunn@egt.ie)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 17:08:28 EST
Sharing with you a msg received today from a friend.
How good is Gentium, and can it be used on a Mac?
Anyone put it through all its paces - punctum delens, etc.?
mg
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Dear colleagues,
Just thought I'd share a discovery about a new font called Gentium
which is excellent for
diacritics. It supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes
glyphs that correspond to
all the Latin ranges of Unicode.
It can be downloaded for free from
http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/index.html
and used like any other font in Microsoft Word etc.
With Gentium you can even place a dot / punctum delens over consonants,
which is a godsend to
students of Old Irish.
Another thing I learnt recently is that in Microsoft Word for Windows
97-2000 a much more
painless way than trawling the Symbol Box for letters with diacritics is to
install a freeware add-on
called UNIQODER. This adds two menus to the menu bar which makes entering
Unicode
characters much easier.
This is available from
http://hem.fyristorg.com/dahloe/uniqoder/
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-- Marion Gunn * EGT (Estab.1991) * http://www.egt.ie * fiosruithe/enquiries: mgunn@egt.ie * eamonn@egt.ie *
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