Fonts

[Andrew Cunningham]

Hi Maxime,

With Keyman ... you can create and use both 8-bit and Unicode keyboard
layouts. Both should work in recent versions of MS Office, the only
real problem is if the fonts add characters to codepoints that Word
would remap to certain Unicode characters.

Older keyman layouts from much older versions of keyman may need to be
recompiled on a newer version if you want to use the legacy fonts on a
more recent computer.

For some African languages we've used SILConverters 3.1
(http://scripts.sil.org/EncCnvtrs) to convert documents using legacy
fonts to Unicode, once the mapping file is created, the conversion is
usually quick and simple.

But Windows 2000 onwards and Office 2000 onwards have had Unicode
support, not familiar with the fonts you mentioned.

But assuming that its latin script and requires complex rendering
(i.e. has combining diacritics), then office 2003 is the minimum
requirement. Alternatively you might get some mileage form the most
recent version of OpenOffice wish should install on Windows 2000 and
can use Graphite fonts.

If you could tell me more off list, I could give you more precise information.

Andrew

On 1 March 2010 17:10, Maxine Rose Baptiste <mrb1 at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Hi, I have a question about Tavultesoft keyboards and fonts. For our
> language, we have had various fonts that we have used over the years as well
> as with the various operating systems that have been a part of Microsoft,
> BaskerPhon for Word 97, Windows 2000, PhGothic for Windows 2000 and 2003,
> and most recently Unicode. Unicode is temperamental in Windows 2007 and 2010
> Beta. Unfortunately we have not been able to keep up with the changing
> technology as we still have some language teachers working with Windows
> 2000/2003 and we still have files in BaskerPhon, PhGothic and now Unicode.
> My question is how can we access these older files, or build a macro that
> enables these older files to be transferred to Unicode and is there any way
> we can have these fonts work with Windows 2007/2010? I am not a techy, just
> trying to access the older files that were made in 2002, 2003 and 2004.
> Thanks for any help, Maxine



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Andrew Cunningham
Vicnet Research and Development Coordinator
State Library of Victoria
Australia

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