<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Mon 20 Apr 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Other macros for 'legacy' fonts</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 20 Apr 2009</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:Knut S. Vikør <<a href="mailto:knut.vikor@ahkr.uib.no">knut.vikor@ahkr.uib.no</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Other macros for 'legacy' fonts</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><div>While on the subject, I could perhaps note that I a couple of years ago developed a more low-tech solution for converting "old-style" or "legacy" transliteration fonts into Unicode characters. These are macros that replace diacritic characters in various such old fonts (like Times Beirut Roman, islamicstudies, IslwTimes, etc.) into their equivalents in Unicode. The purpose is to give old documents new life; after running these macros, files that previously could only be read in that particular font, can now be opened in any current Unicode font that has the diacritics we need.</div><div><br></div><div>I collected the information I could find for about forty different fonts (in a few cases, unfortunately, I have only partial information about the font), they are put into macros that I guess anyone should be able to install and use. The macros are in Microsoft Word and NisusWriter formats. </div><div><br></div><div>The fonts these convert from, are: Abbas, afroas, AHT, AO Times New Roman, al-Arial, ArabTransLit, Assur, Beyrut, Bloomington, Bock, DMGTms, EuroIranica, Galil, GalilTimes, HaifaTimes, Iran Web2, islamicstudies, IslwTimes, Jaghbub / Bairut / Koufra, JAIS-font, ME Times / ME Geneva, MidEast Times, Nebe, New BaskervilleME, New World, New World Transliterator, Pamuk, Semitic Transliterator, Sima, Tabriz, Times Beyrut Roman / OI-Beirut, Times New Arabic, Times New Arabic Roman, Times New English Roman, TimesEncycBrillRoman, TimesTL, Timur / Helvan, TranslitLS and UrmiTimes. </div><div><br></div><div>You find more information and the macros at this link:</div><div><a href="http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/convert.html">http://www.smi.uib.no/ksv/convert.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Knut S. Vikør</div><div><br></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 20 Apr 2009</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>