Font conversion issue: TransCyrillic

[Paul B. Gallagher]

David Chaika wrote:

 > As you have found "TransCyrillic" is not a standard Windows font. It
 > can be "refonted" to a standard Unicode font, tho. I took your
 > example below "V tablicax periodiheskoj" in Latinica and loaded it
 > into a little text editor called Edxor that did let me convert all
 > "V" to Cyrillic /v/ and match the case. It would be tedious, but it's
 > doable.

If I were going that way, I would probably want to set it up as a macro,
assuming your editor supports that. As for Word, it won't search and
replace these characters. I copied the "h" in "periodiheskoj," which
isn't really an "h" but looks like one, and Word zipped right on by and
recognized a roman "h" (a real one).

 > You might contact them at linguistsoftware.com and see whether they
 > have a converter available.

Another subscriber privately forwarded my post to them, and they
replied, offering to sell me the font (which doesn't solve my problem
but lets me see it in Cyrillic) or do a custom conversion for a fee
substantially higher than the cost of the font. Unless I get desperate,
I think I'll probably pass. I have another promising iron in the fire,
and if it works I'll give credit publicly.

--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com

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