[Lexicog] Who Said What?

[Peter Kirk]

On 28/09/2004 15:51, neduchi at netscape.net wrote:

>Hallo Benjamin,
>I can confirm it with the pop up menu I got on opening this present letter of your, even though it is not in Japanese.
>
>A QUESTION FOR SIL:
>DOes "DOulos Font" work on other OS like Mac and the Nix Family?
>
>Chinedu
>
>
>
I'm not SIL (although I used to be a member), but then I don't think SIL
font experts are on this list. But I can more or less answer your
question. All the regular glyphs in the Doulos SIL font should work OK
on Mac OS and *nix if they support any TrueType font. But you will get
all of the smart positioning only with a few Windows applications. Here
is an extract from the Doulos SIL documentation,
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=DoulosSIL_Technical:


>
>     System requirements
>
> The Doulos SIL font is designed to work on systems and with
> applications that provide support for TrueType fonts and for Unicode
> character encoding. This includes all 32-bit versions of Microsoft
> Windows®, as well as recent versions of the Mac OS (version 9.0 and
> later), and also some implementations of Unix / Linux (TrueType font
> support on Unix and Linux may depend upon the particular applications
> in use). On some systems (true, at least, of 32-bit Windows), it can
> also be used with older applications that use legacy,
> industry-standard, 8-bit character encodings.
>
> The preceding characterization of system requirements describes the
> minimum needed to display characters. Realizing the full capabilities
> of this font involves additional requirements. This font is designed
> to work with either of two advanced font technologies: Graphite, or
> OpenType. We expect that future versions of the font will contain AAT
> tables to offer selection of alternate glyphs on Mac OS X. To take
> advantage of the advanced typographic capabilities of this font, you
> must be using applications that provide an adequate level of support
> <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=DoulosSIL_AdLvSup>
> for Graphite and OpenType. At the time of release, no application
> supports all of the OpenType features of this font. Paratext1 6 and
> Microsoft Office 2003 support many of the automatic ligatures as well
> as dynamic positioning of most diacritics. While Adobe InDesign 2 does
> not offer support for dynamic diacritic positioning, it is one of the
> few applications to offer selection of alternate glyphs from OpenType
> fonts. There are currently three applications which make use of the
> Graphite capabilities of the font. These are WorldPad, a beta version
> of Mozilla and Data Notebook.
>
>


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Peter Kirk
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peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
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