Typesetting the Deseret Alphabet with LaTeX and METAFONT
نویسنده
چکیده
The Deseret Alphabet was an orthographical reform for English, promoted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) between about 1854 and 1875. An offshoot of the Pitman phonotypy reforms, the Deseret Alphabet is remembered mainly for its use of non-Roman glyphs. Though ultimately rejected, the Deseret Alphabet was used in four printed books, numerous newspaper articles, several unprinted book manuscripts, journals, meeting minutes, letters and even a gold coin, a tombstone and an early English-to-Hopi vocabulary. This paper reviews the history of the Deseret Alphabet, its Unicode implementation, fonts both metal and digital, and projects involving the typesetting of Deseret Alphabet texts.
منابع مشابه
Reverse Digital Typography
Reverse engineering of typefaces has been an active research area of digital typography. However, past research works are limited to typographic parameters extraction and curve fitting, and no reverse-engineering equivalent of any classical digital typesetting software (e.g. METAFONT compiler, LTEX package) exist to date. Interestingly, the rise of cloud computing has made large scale reverse t...
متن کاملTypesetting Coptic Liturgy in Bohairic
This paper describes what the authors have done in order to typeset some Coptic texts with LATEX mainly in the Bohairic variant used in liturgy. This implied the creation of suitable fonts, the macros for typesetting special liturgical symbols, the hyphenation patterns necessary to typeset with the Coptic alphabet and the rules used by the Bohairic variant.
متن کاملTypesetting classical Greek philology
The teubner package provides support for typesetting classical Greek philological texts with LATEX, including textual and rhythmic verse. The special signs and glyphs made available by this package may also be useful for typesetting philological texts with other alphabets.
متن کاملAn International Phonetic Alphabet
This paper discusses the development of an International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) font for use with TEX and the Computer Modern fonts primarily from the viewpoint of a manager. Included will be discussion on how to use this font and the direction we can go from here with it. The Need for an IPA Font Since 1983. l 7 ~ X has found extensive use at Washington State University (WSU). Although at man...
متن کاملBijlage 13 A LATEX Tour , part 3 : mfnfss , psnfss and babel
This third installment of my tour covers three more distributions that are supported via the standard LATEX bug report mechanism described in Part 1. The mfnfss distribution provides LATEX support for some popular Metafont produced fonts, that do not otherwise have any LATEX interface. The psnfss distribution consists of LATEX packages giving access to POSTSCRIPT fonts. The third distribution i...
متن کامل