Re: in search of font for Aleut linguistics

On Sep 19, 10:14 pm, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But please keep in mind that "Arial Unicode MS" (that's the name) lacks
italics and bold. This means that if you e.g. write text in Arial Unicode MS
in Microsoft Word and then give a command to italicize it, Word will turn it
to _slanted_, producing pseudo-italics (pseudo-oblique) and producing
definitely wrong results for many characters. (For example, the vertical bar
"|" then looks like a solidus "/".)

Ah, that is a definite disadvantage...

The most extensive serif font, in terms of Unicode coverage, is Code2000, a
cheap shareware font available fromhttp://www.code2000.net. It looks
fairly good and could be used as a backup font when the basic font is Times
New Roman, though it might work better as backup for Cambria or Constantia.
Don't look at it without font smoothing - it has clearly been designed for
use _with_ smoothing.

The bad news is that Code2000, too, lacks italics and bold. The same applies
to Everson Mono Unicode, an extensive monospace font. (You don't want to use
monospace for copy text, of course, but Everson Mono Unicode might be used
for special purposes, like IPA notations.)

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

Thanks for the pointers to Code2000 and Everson Mono Unicode. I will
look into those. It seems the best fonts for my situation in terms of
character coverage are cheap or freely available fonts. Charis SIL
and Doulos SIL actually have all of the characters I need. So do
Aboriginal Serif and Aboriginal Sans from languagegeek.com, and I
believe Linux Libertine (normal but not bold or italic) and Junicode
do as well. These are all reasonably nice fonts, but they all have
their flaws. Of the above fonts, I believe Linux Libertine is the
only one with small caps (and for some reason the small capital A is a
different shape than the normal capital A). Doulos SIL has no bold or
italic; Aboriginal Serif has them, but the bold looks funny.
Combining diacritics don't work quite right in bold or italic in
Junicode and Linux Libertine. Charis SIL is quite a nice font, but in
a side-by-side comparison with Bitstream Charter, the font it's
designed after, there's a clear difference in quality.

I was hoping there might be professional fonts targeting academic
presses, dictionary publishers, or other language professionals that
might offer the character coverage I need but with a more polished
presentation. But if these sorts of fonts don't exist or aren't
available through the regular distribution channels, my best option
may be to make do with free fonts.

.

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