On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Dhivan Thomas Jones <thomas@...>wrote:
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> Dear Piya,
>
> I have found that the new Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac seems to
> include Times Extended Roman with all diacritics necessary for Pali
> and Sanskrit, and is hence more convenient to use than Gentium. I
> think that there may still be some compatibility issues with this
> solution but it is probably easier that trying to buy Times Extended
> Roman separately for Mac.
>
> An alternative is to use Times (not Times New Roman) on the Mac, as
> this font includes all necessary diacritics, though it creates
> conversion problems, since PCs don't seem to have an extended version
> of Times built-in.
>
> All the best
> Dhivan
>
> www.dhivan.net
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