On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 03:37:21PM +0200, keth@... wrote:
Heil öll,

> Heilir Rob and Óskar!
>
> To get this right: this is a font for Microsoft Windows?

I don't think it would be a good idea to using a symbol (the hooked o) that
only works on Microsoft. Some of us don't use MS Windows, or have been
using MS windows only to translate word docs into something readable elsewhere.
I'm probably not the only non-Microsoft user here.

*sigh* What I should do, of course, is write a translator. Not word to linux
(a difficult problem) but word's "text with line breaks" export format to
linux-readable text in ISO 8859-1. Then I could change your oe ligatures
(no such symbol in 8859-1) and microsoft-specific quote symbols into something
readable automatically, and adding code to change hooked o to ö wouldn't be
much additional effort.

Of course I still wouldn't be able to produce those symbols. That would
require a bunch more programming effort. (Not hard, just additional work.)

A question for the list: how many people are reading these lessons on
non-windows systems that can handle ISO 8859-1 (but not word) and would
use a special character translator if they had one. And of these, how
many (a) are Unix-like (have the 'tr' command, sed, ksh, etc.) (b) have perl
or (c) have a C compiler? (All of these are different tools I could probably
use to write this; I don't need all 3 ... and don't want to write 3
translators ... but I could pick the tool more people had available, if
this is a general problem.


>
>
> >Heil öll,
> >
> >--- In norse_course@..., robert blank <sawilagaz@...> wrote:
> >
> >> Heil öllI just recently ran across this. There is a font out there
> >that is for Old Norse. It even has the hooked o. It is a Times
> >Roman font and comes in two forms. One has just the special letters:
> >ð, þ, av etc. The other has the whole character set. It can be down
> >loaded at:http://w1.2220.telia.com/~u222200871/filer.htmRob
>
> That is in Sweden!
> I'll take a look soon.
>
> Keth
>
> >Thank you very much for that, Rob :)
> >
> >I downloaded the font, and am thinking about using the hooked o
> >symbol in the lessons. For that to be possible, however, we need to
> >make sure people won't experience difficulties reading the symbol. I
> >suppose one needs to have the font installed to be able to have it
> >presented on the screen (right?). So for everybody's ease, I'll put
> >the .zip file that I downloaded into the Files section, and leave it
> >to you to install it. Then I'll upload (to Files) a little .doc text
> >which includes the hooked o; I'd like for somebody here to check how
> >it presents before and after installment. If this will work, the
> >hooked o will feature in the revised lessons, instead of 'ö'.

--
Arlie

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