I was planning to use REv as a mini data base for storing some multi
language data: English, Tamil, and Tamil transliteration and possibly
other languages, for the same text...
It seems perfect... I can keep the same text in different in
different fields, then export as XML and in InDesign Map the tags to
paragraph styles for print layout. Managing these as separate files
and cutting and pasting the text will be a night mare for our editors
otherwise....
Trouble: my field "Tamil_Script" will not accept the font assignments
of these Government of India Tamil Open Type. TTF unicode fonts.
I have a keyboard layout for Tamil unicode "Mylai"... if I install
this and select this keyboard, and start typing, I *do* get Unicode
Tamil. It seems to be defaulting to InaiMathi, which is one of
Apple's default Tamil fonts that come on the system. OK, I don't know
this to start with... I query the text in the field:
put the textfont of line 1 of fld "Tamil_script"
--> Mixed ## OK, so must be the end line is in a different font... try:
put the textfont of char 5 line 1 of fld "Tamil_script"
--> Geneva,Unicode
ummm... that's not Geneva on the screen... it looks like InaiMathi.
But the characters appearing are indeed the correct ones for the
unicode series for Tamil, so the keyboard is working.. I confirm this:
On mouseup
set the useUnicode to true
put the charToNum of char 1to 2 of line 1 of fld "Tamil_Script"
end mouseup
result > 2980 but I don't know how to check this against a list of
Unicode in the form of
0B82 -- 0BFA (the Tamil range)
But, the text was entered with the Mylai keyboard so *for sure* the
chars must be unicode...
set the textfont of line 1 of fld "Tamil_Script" to "GIST-
TMOTChanakya Bold"
oops! Now revolution shows garbage in line one of fld "Tamil_script"
check to see if I got it right: put the fontNames -- yep ""GIST-
TMOTChanakya Bold" is on the list of active fonts...
OK, run Font Agent over the fonts... no problem, no corruption...
Open inDesign.. switch to Mylai Keyboard, type my name in Tamil,
select it, choose font ""GIST-TMOTChanakya" -- > and Bold from the
cascading menu... It works fine...
but not in Rev :(
I haven't a clue how to begin to solve this one.
Any insights welcome.. Rev would be the absolutely perfect
environment for maintaining this project, because of the script
control over output.
TIA
Sivakatirswami
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