![]() (However, initial and isolated appear to be the same, and medial and final appear to be the same as well.) Also, looking at the font's code tables, it seems to be in sequence of most Arabic fonts (especially before Unicode), where the glyphs are arranged in the order of initial, medial, final and isolated forms of the character. Well, I've taken a look at the font, and it definitely is something that could be put together to work with Mellel. They also offer a full listing of all Unicode code charts.) (For those curious, the Unicode charts for punctuation and formatting characters can be found on the Unicode Consortium's website. I received the files from Damien already, so I'll take a look at them this afternoon. I'm not sure if Ukelele is still around or if it runs on 10.6, but I'll see what I can work on for that, as well. (Similarly, the Left-to-Right Marker (LRM) character is U+200E.) I will attempt to see what I can cobble together as far as Mandaic support in Mellel as well.Īlso, since the font is using the PUA of Unicode, perhaps a custom keymap will aid in using this script. This ought to inform the string of text following it that it is to behave in a RTL manner. One possibility may be to insert the Unicode Right-to-Left Marker character. in character appearance, set direction = Right-to-Left set Furelise as Secondary font and script = Hebrew With document binding direction set to Right-to-Left I tried all combinations of the following I could think of, but no joy: I have a vague memory that this has to do with how the font is defined in Unicode terms, but there ought to be a way to override that definition. ![]() Jannuss wrote:I have yet to find a way to force Mellel to enter the characters Right-to-Left. I may be reached at Let me know if there is anything more I/we may be able to do to help you solve this mystery. If you wish send me the font and some sample images of Mandaic text, I will see what I may be able to come up with for you, though. But perhaps there are other users who are more competent with the intricacies of typography and semitic languages to give you a more thorough answer. Mellel's support for constructs is definitely limited (mostly to semitic languages), as is evidenced by its lack of support for Devanagari. However, this is definitely something that ought to be investigated. I am more intrigued by the implementation issues, myself. However, if the Mandaic font uses the locations of Syriac and/or Arabic to definite its glyphs, then there really is no good reason why Mellel would not properly render the font and its constructs. If it uses private use areas (PUAs) of Unicode, then there would indeed be differences between how certain applications rendered/implemented the fonts. However, I am most curious, since Mandaic does not have a reserved block of Unicode, to see how it assigns its characters/glyphs. I’m personally partial to Warnock Pro (which has some interesting and sharp alternate glyphs, especially in Cyrillic and Greek) and occasionally Myriad Pro.Personally, I do not have much experience with RTL languages/fonts-Janet would definitely be one of your best resources for that. ![]() If you’re doing any amount of writing, you really should invest in a good family (or two or three) of professional faces. (However, make sure you follow the font's licensing terms.)Īlso, I tend to echo the thoughts of Matthew Butterick ( Butterick’s Practical Typography, Typography for Lawyers), and system fonts in general ought to be avoided. In addition, iBooks (and many other readers) support PDF, which also allows for embedded fonts. My Nook has no problem reading embedded fonts, but the glyph support is not complete, as Barnes & Noble uses Adobe's rendering engine in their Nook devices, which has limitations. The same is true for any reader that follows the EPUB 2 or 3 spec. Therefore, any font you wish to use can actually be embedded in your ebook. iBooks reads EPUB files, and the EPUB spec allows for embedding of fonts into the file itself. ![]() Ozean wrote:However, none of these fonts is available as native on an iPad, so if you're looking to produce an ebook (for example for iBooks) then you'd need to use one of the default fonts.
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