Re: Hebrew modifier question

2004-05-25 Thread Bertrand Laidain
Mark is right, I just wanted to add that geresh and gersayim were available in the MacOs Hebrew encoding and fonts that came with the HLK (not just the apostrophe) Bertrand Le 25 mai 04, 04:04, Mark E. Shoulson a crit : The punctuation you're after is U+05F3 HEBREW PUNCTUATION GERESH (not to

Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

2003-11-25 Thread Bertrand Laidain
On OS X the hebrew keyboard is part of the Unicode bundle so it is inputting hebrew with Unicode right ? And this works with InDesign ME 2. So I had the impression that ID ME 2 support Unicode inputting (at least with this keyboard). Bertrand Le 25 nov. 03, à 11:01, Michael Everson a écrit

Re: How can I have OTF for MacOS

2003-11-25 Thread Bertrand Laidain
Yes , there a special ME version for Arabic and Hebrew since Page Maker (5x I think) See http://www.adobeme.com/ or http://www.winsoft.fr/ (there is also CE version for Central European and Cyrillic) Bertrand Le 25 nov. 03, à 11:52, Michael Everson a écrit : At 11:53 +0100 2003-11-25, Bertrand

Re: From [b-hebrew] Variant forms of vav with holem

2003-07-31 Thread Bertrand Laidain
No sorry, you're right about YIVO, I made a confusion with beys and veys. But the second part of the sentence is still valid... Bertrand Le jeudi, 31 jul 2003, à 03:30 Europe/Paris, John Cowan a écrit : Bertrand Laidain scripsit: Not exactly, in standard YIVO orthography, Yiddish p is pe

Re: From [b-hebrew] Variant forms of vav with holem

2003-07-30 Thread Bertrand Laidain
Le mercredi, 30 jul 2003, à 23:55 Europe/Paris, John Cowan a écrit : Specifically, in Yiddish -p is written with non-final pe, as I believe is the case in Modern Hebrew also (in borrowings and abbreviations). Elsewhere, Yiddish p is pe-dagesh, whereas f is pe-rafe. Not exactly, in standard YIVO

Re: Back to Hebrew, was OT:darn'd fools

2003-07-29 Thread Bertrand Laidain
Yes, Michael is right event if a lot of people doesn't use accented upper case (they don't know how to do it, or the fact that they can do it), but this IS the rule in French typography. Just have a look at le Monde http://www.lemonde.fr Bertrand Le mardi, 29 jul 2003, à 16:58 Europe/Paris,

Re: Back to Hebrew, was OT:darn'd fools

2003-07-29 Thread Bertrand Laidain
At 11:52 -0400 2003-07-29, Jim Allan wrote: One the other hand, dropping diacritics from names or text written in all uppercase is considered acceptable in Quebec French (and I suspect also in France) dating from old addressograph technology and billing typewriter technology where capital

Re: Summary of Unicode/language features in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar

2002-08-25 Thread Bertrand Laidain
waiting for the documentation for keyboards, is there a plan to include in the develloper tools a tool like Resedit for X to edit the keyboards ? Bertrand Laidain As promised, here is a very quick summary of the high points (as best I can remember without my reference materials at hand): 1. Keyboard

Re: Summary of Unicode/language features in Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar

2002-08-25 Thread Bertrand Laidain
John H. Jenkins wrote : Keyboards can be straight XML now. You don't any special tools to edit them. It's very nice that way. Michael Everson wrote : My understanding is that while a graphical editor would be nice, it's not the highest priority for the development team. Editing the hard way

Re: [OT] o-circumflex

2001-09-07 Thread Bertrand Laidain
I would say it is a variant of o we just called it... o with a circumflex accent (o avec un accent circonflex). The difference between o and ô is normally audible (for a French speaker). The relationship is the same than with any other letter which sometimes have accents (e.g. a and à, e and è,

RE: RECOMMENDATIONs( Term Asian is not used properly on Computersand NET)

2001-06-06 Thread Bertrand Laidain
or Latin Quarter (= the area of Paris where Italian was spoken?). No it's because it's a quarter of Paris where you used to find scholars and universities (La Sorbonne) and they spoke Latin ! Today they don't speak speak Latin anymore but you still find universities and students (and tourists).

Re: Pentagrams: (was: RE: UTF8 vs. Unicode (UTF16) in code)

2001-03-14 Thread Bertrand Laidain
A lot of other religions managed to make it into Miscellaneous Symbols (although if Solomon's Seal/Mogen David is there, I'm not seeing it). No it is there : From ITC Zapf dingbats series 100 Stars asteriks and snowflakes 2721 STAR OF DAVID Bertrand

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-06 Thread Bertrand Laidain
It comes with the full CD of system 9.1 not 9.04 (and that means not the update online which does not have the langage kit update, also in the CD) Bertrand I just got two brand new Macs with 9.0.4 installed. How do I get the WorldText application? -- Bertrand Laidain 1, rue Stendhal 75020

Re: Macintosh OS8.6, OS9

2001-02-05 Thread Bertrand Laidain
my computer, I didn't install a Unicode font to test it. PTR -- Bertrand Laidain 1, rue Stendhal 75020 Paris