From: Craig Davis
Message: 711
Date: 2001-02-09
>
> *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
>
> (Arlie Stephens
> arlie@...)
>
>
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> ...aðrir spakmæli.
>
> - Keth
>
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