Jon,

As to (3), I use Time Extended Roman because it has the nasal m. with a
superscript dot, which I prefer (as the nasal n. is also with s superscript
dot).

Metta & muditaa,

Piya Tan

On Feb 16, 2008 11:21 PM, Jon Fernquest <bayinnaung@...> wrote:

> Dear List members;
>
> Three questions have come to mind recently I would like to ask:
>
> 1. Is there a utility or computer program (Perl, Php, etc) that will
> convert Velthuis to unicode Pali with diacritical marks? Or a Word macro?
>
> 2. Technical question: If you write Pali without diacritical marks or
> Velthuis, is it possible for a computer program to infer the
> diacritical marks from the context of the letters in a word? Is there
> a converter that does this?
>
> 3. There are so many Pali fonts. Which one is the best to use? Why are
> there so many fonts? Is Pali not included in the Unicode engine?
>
> If they don't exist already, I could cook one up in Php or ruby.
>
> with metta and mudita,
> Jon Fernquest
>
>
>



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