I know this is an old thread. However, I have been searching the web,
and found some things that might be of interest. I found some
interesting 8-bit font sets at the following web address:
http://www.lillians.de/fonts.html
They appear to be reasonably mapped (e.g., the dash/hyphen is not mapped
to a japanese letter and the hard-space is mapped to a hard-space!) and,
there appears to be the double character glyphs, such as kya also mapped
and pre-formatted (e.g., Ki + ya ... Robert, as you can tell, Japanese
is not a language I'm very fluent at all in, despite my ancestry).
Mostly, the project I'm working on is for a friend who has some lyrics
in hiragana and katakana, with very little kanji, so these fonts fit my
needs nicely. There is also a "Romaji" font which makes checking your
work fairly easy. Still, I would have preferred that Finale support Unicode.
The web site is in German, and has some pretty nice stuff. (My German is
better than my Japanese, although it's not very good.) All in all, it
worked out pretty nicely, I think. Not too hard for a language idiot
like me.
Robert Patterson wrote:
Just being picky: "Ki" + "ya" = Kya. Not "ka" as you stated. I'm following
this thread with interest even though I have nothing except banalities like
that to add to it.
On 11/28/06, Bruce K H Kau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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