I've managed to get something that sorta works. Only thing, is one of
the characters is mapped to a dash/hyphen, so Finale thinks it is a word
separator. grrrrrrr. I have a work-around for that too, but it's not pretty.
I'm now thinking of looking for some simple font management software -
rearrange font position assignments, combine font glyphs to accommodate
the combined kana that Hiro referenced before (thanks for the info,
Hiro, I did some web research and I think I know what you mean ... I
hope ... stuff like ka + ya = kya?). I used to use Fontmonger. What is
the current wisdom of the list on Font Management/Manipulation software?
Cheap is better. I don't do this often, nor do I do a lot of heavy font
editing and tweaking.
I've waited for Unicode for three versions now, and I'm getting a little
tired. :-(
A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Kurt Gnos / 2006/11/26 / 04:55 PM wrote:
I had it working using some japanese software extension on win98, I
guess... Was it Twinbridge?
Ah, good old Twinbridge, which was developed for and funded by US
Library, a pseudo Unicode-like, runs on DOS. Twinbridge created own
font and mapped them on their own way, for non Asian to input so it was
very difficult for natives to use. When Libraries switched to NT4,
Twinbridge was banned, as I heard.
Just peaking their site, I was surprised that they became one of the
authorized MS importer. They sell XP Japanese for $450, which is the
price you see everywhere. I bet MS controls it. OSX is only $100
street, and you don't need to pay importer for extra because it is the
same as what sold in Japan :-)
I was surprised your copy still works on Word under XP. MS is really
good with backward compatibility.
I am still unable to do Japanese in Finale 2006 under Win2KSP4JP. I
tried with many different fonts but to no avail.
Michael Good / 2006/11/25 / 08:59 PM wrote:
Also remember to set the text script to Japanese
Not sure if I understand this. Is this a WinFin specific thing that I
can't find? By the way, the XML does tells me you did use MS Gothic. I
can't make it work.
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