User talk:Mark R Johnson
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[edit] Renner Futura
Hi Mark R Johnson. I am not sayng that Renner Futura does not have both kinds of figures. As I understood your edit you are suggesting that old style and ranging figures are two different things. Am I mistaken? From my books they are two different terms for the same thing. CApitol3 14:01, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
- I was confused by the term too until I read more about it. According to the two sources I cited on your talk page, range is synonymous with align, i.e. cap height. Not “ranging up and down like text figures” but used for writing ranges of numbers. If you have books that actually say ranging = non-lining, then I guess we have a disputed term; but I’m betting that’s not the case. My edit was intended to fix a glaring contradiction between Architype Renner and Text figures, which as of now still stands. Thanks for your response (and sorry I forgot to sign my first comment). MJ (t • c) 14:50, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unicode fonts
Dear Mark R. This is odzer from the Indic family Mac OS discussion. I am having a lot of problems viewing all those scripts and as you had kindly offered to help in this area I was wondering if you can tell me how should I go about making them viewable. I have Mac OS Tiger. Thanks. Odzer —Preceding comment was added at 07:25, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
- Hi Odzer – All you need is good fonts. I should post this info on my own User Page but for now I’ll reply quickly to you here. First of all I strongly recommend Gentium for beautifully designed and integrated Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA. I’ve found most of the non-Latin fonts I like through the Gallery of Unicode Fonts at Wazu. My first need was Bengali, and for that I like Rupali (sans) and SolaimanLipi (serif). Those and other good Bangla Unicode fonts can be downloaded from Ekushey.org. The best I’ve found for Tibetan is Jomolhari (better than the Tibetan in the ST Chinese fonts that come with OS X 10.4 because the consonants stack properly). I use Utkal for Oriya, and Akshar for Kannada, Sinhala, Tamil & Telugu (also supports Malayalam (old style) and Devanagari). I use Myanmar1.ttf and KhmerOS_sys.ttf for those two scripts; Saysettha for Lao, Edessa.otf for Syriac … etc. Damase 2 supports an enormous number of scripts, none of which apply to the Brahmic_family page, but they allow me to read many of the other scripts I’ve found on Wikipedia. Happy viewing! MJ (t • c) 05:39, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
