How is this on topic for firebird-support? Did you mean to mail this to someone else?
Mark On 11-5-2019 17:22, Lester Caine [email protected] [firebird-support] wrote: > With the sorting out of unicode encoded text I've just hit a related > funny. I've been given a quantity of original PageMaker documents which > include a quantity of poetry for which the layout and punctuation is a > substantial part of the content. I'd had to find the original fonts, or > so I thought to get these to render on an old setup of PageMaker. What I > had no anticipated was that while the characters themselves may be > slightly different from scans of the original published books, some of > the quotation marks were simply 'wrong'. Not yet verified the whole > book, but single and double quotes are being rendered as actual foreign > characters. What I thought would be a quick job is now something of a > nightmare! And I've no way to check just how the original probably > pre-XP machine was set up. Looks like I'll need to work out just what > characters are used in the documents, but the three copies of the font > I've found have different layouts for the punctuation :( Fortunately > I've got access to the original author ... it's his website I building > .... so we can HOPEFULLY identify the correct unicode codes for use > on-line, but I doubt there are unicode versions of the old fonts he used > originally? Need to find the best match possible while maintaining the > original layout of text. > -- Mark Rotteveel
