On Sat Aug 24 2002 - 13:18:08 EDT Deborah Goldsmith wrote: >- Keyboards may be installed by dragging in the Finder to >/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, ~/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, or >/Network/Library/Keyboard Layouts/, then logging out and logging back >in.
This is excellent news. I have just succeeded, with the invaluable guidance of Alex Eulenberg, in installing a keyboard for polytonic Greek that I have been developing and using, until today (when I installed Jaguar), in OS 9 and in 10.1.5. This new facility makes it simple for anyone with no technical knowledge to install a ready-made keyboard layout. >- Fonts to support Arabic, Hebrew, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Gujarati, >Gurmukhi, Polytonic Greek, and Thai (some of these are optional >installs) Hmm. I wonder if this is what is causing problems. I have three or four third party fonts to support polytonic Greek, including Arial Unicode MS, which I placed in ~/Library/Fonts/ straight after installing Jaguar. I have had no problem working in pGreek in MacOS 9 and 10.1.5. Until today it was possible to work on the same document either in WorldText in Classic or in TextEdit and it was even possible to drag pGreek text from WorldText to TextEdit. Text in a document was displayed faultlessly in a single font. Now, in Jaguar, if I open a plain text pGreek document in TextEdit, about half the document is displayed in a clear font with apparently only the pi (as always) being borrowed from the ascii set, and the rest in a mixture of fonts. Literally as I was writing this, just such a document in the background caused the machine to lock me out with a rainbow wheel in order to re-display itself in a quite different mixture of Greek fonts. If I select a characters I find the pi is in Monaco from the MacRoman set, others are in Lucida Grande, others in Hiragino Kaku Gothic, some in Caslon! This happens no matter how I set my preferences. If I create a new document, type in a few characters of polytonic Greek and then go to save the document, the default encoding option offered me is Chinese (GB 18030)! so it clearly has no idea what is is meant to be, and until I force the document to a single font, it remains a mess of bits and pieces from all over the place -- all Greek, but all from different fonts. So long as the document remains plain text, it will open every time as the mish-mash I have described. I'm sure there is a good explanation for this and I can see that 10.2 is a great leap forward, not least in the Unicode department. I'd be happy to send you samples and screen shots to show the problem. The fact is that on the face of things, the situation for polytonic Greek was excellent before Jaguar and extremely confused now for this user. JD
