Re: Italic open-o in omega

One font you might want to look at would be Victor Gaultney's Gentium,
available at http://www.sil.org/~gaultney/gentium/. This is a very
attractive Unicode-encoded font, with both Roman and Italic (no bold yet,
though) that includes a large extended-Latin character set including IPA
characters and diacritics.

I have not tried to set up Omega/Lambda to work with Gentium, though; you'll
be on your own with that aspect of it.

Jonathan

on 30/5/03 9:49 pm, dmort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx at
dmort@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I am currently attempting to format a dictionary (English-Lahu) using
> Omega/Lambda[1].  So far, it is working very well (thanks John and
> Yannis), but I have one hang-up:  the omlgci font does not see to include
> open-o (and possibly a couple of other characters which are included in
> the roman version of the font and which I need in order to write Lahu).
> This is frustrating since I like the font very much and would like to have
> the Lahu words and phrases italicized and the english glosses in roman.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1. How difficult would it be (for me, for example) to add the missing
> characters to existing omega fonts?  Is there any plan by the authors to
> fill out the IPA[2] range of the italic font in the near future?
> 
> 2. Have any people on the list had good experiences with Lambda and any
> specific (unicode encoded) roman-type serif font that includes the IPA and
> combining modifiers ranges?
> 
> Any pointers on these subjects would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> David Mortensen
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> 
> [1] Currently the formatter (a python program) works by reading the
> contents of the database (unicode encoded; created from an earlier
> Lahu-English dictionary), reorganizing the data by English gloss, and then
> spitting out the result in easy-to-edit Lambda.  I have created an ocp,
> which I eventually hope to distribute, when it is in more presentable
> form, that gives the right behavior to unicode combining diacritics and
> various other characters needed for writing texts in IPA.
> 
> [2] International Phonetic Alphabet
> 
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