LL-L: "Fonts" LOWLANDS-L, 27.AUG.2000 (04) [E]

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From: André van den Berg [ecdbv at xs4all.nl]
Subject: LL-L: "Fonts" LOWLANDS-L, 26.AUG.2000 (05) [E]

> > Sandy wrote:

> > > I've been trying to find an HTML code to represent the
> > > Scots letter "yoch".

Hello,

The following could be 'applicable only' to users in the UK. There is a
computersystem, designed and made in the UK, based on a very userfriendly
operating system (RISC OS) that is very 'graphical'. There is a company
producing fonts for it (and for PC's and Mac's) that could be helpful.

As PC's, on the contrary to Mac's and this RISC PC are not originally
designed with graphics in mind (Windows came out only after Steve Jobs
became very successful with his graphical user interface) I doubt whether
it
will be possible at all on Bill Gates' OS.

http://www.eff.co.uk/

http://www.argonet.co.uk/bladerunner/fonts/

http://www.riscos.com/

Vriendelijke groet / Kind regards,

André van den Berg,

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From: Henry Pijffers [hpijffers at home.nl]
Subject: LL-L: "Fonts" LOWLANDS-L, 26.AUG.2000 (05) [E]

Sandy wrote:
>
>This is the only page with real solutions. After experimenting
>with the trial downloads, however, I'm not too happy. The fact
>is that Netscrape and Microserf haven't yet got their acts
>together on this, and no solution was offered for other browsers
>anyway (unless the IE one happens to work for some others too).
>
>Colin has pointed me to Leeds University as a source for fonts
>containing yoghs, and I've found one complete one available for
>download at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/iss/applications/fonts.html
>This is a 40K .tff download called "LeedsTime Medieval4". It's
>a rather smudgy-looking font (quite nice really) which you could
>of course use in your wordprocessor or anything if you wanted to
>use yoghs - the yogh itself combines not too badly with Times
>New Roman, if you don't like the Leeds font itself.
>
If the yogh you're looking for is represented in the Unicode characterset,
then you're safe with Netscape and Microsoft, as both browsers support
the Unicode characterset, last time I checked. And since the masses use
either Netscape or Microsoft...

regards,
Henry

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