Looking for fonts/character sets for the Ewe language
Salomon K. AGBENYA
:-)Please help me find fonts for the Ewe language (spoken in West
Africa: Ghana, Togo and Benin). I can find some characters in
Wordperfect and MS-Word, but they are not easy to use, their sizes
don't fit the "regular" characters, others are are missing, such as the
reverse [C]that gives the sound [O] in [door]. The special characters
are often taken from the phonetic alphabet.
If someone out there wouldn't mind to give me her/his Fax #, I could
fax her/him a photocopy of the Ewe alphabet. Olympia, in Germany, used
to manufacture Ewe typewriters.
I would really appreciate your help and suggestions
Thanks
Salomon
sa...@netcom.ca
Olivier RANDIER
In article <56c0va$g...@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca>, sa...@netcom.ca(Salomon K.
AGBENYA) wrote:
You should check the Yamada Language Center site.
Also this previous post may interest you:
In article <52ft32$o...@herald.concentric.net>, CJC...@Cris.Com wrote:
My not-very-intelligent newsreader erroneously thought that
vka...@in.net (VKARMO) had something interesting to say when the
following was found:
Anyone have any idea where I can find fonts for any African language
that has its own script?
If you could send me more details on what you are looking for, I might
be able to help. I need to know a language name (and preferably what
country or countries it is spoken in, by who, etc.) We make fonts
specifically for minority languages (i.e., the ones with very few
speakers, e.g., Hualapai has 440 speakers, Serrano has 1 speaker left).
Chuck Coker
Indigenous Languages Project
CJC...@Cris.Com
Hope this helps...
--
Olivier Randier -- Experluette
Jonathan Kew
In article <orandier-131...@mon3-03.planete.net>,
oran...@planete.net (Olivier RANDIER) wrote:
> In article <56c0va$g...@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca>, sa...@netcom.ca(Salomon K.
> AGBENYA) wrote:
>
> > :-)Please help me find fonts for the Ewe language (spoken in West
> > Africa: Ghana, Togo and Benin). I can find some characters in
> > Wordperfect and MS-Word, but they are not easy to use, their sizes
> > don't fit the "regular" characters, others are are missing, such as the
> > reverse [C]that gives the sound [O] in [door]. The special characters
> > are often taken from the phonetic alphabet.
> > If someone out there wouldn't mind to give me her/his Fax #, I could
> > fax her/him a photocopy of the Ewe alphabet. Olympia, in Germany, used
> > to manufacture Ewe typewriters.
> > I would really appreciate your help and suggestions
>
> You should check the Yamada Language Center site.
You might also wish to contact the Summer Institute of Linguistics. SIL's
Encore font set includes just about any phonetic or other "modified-Roman"
character you're likely to need, along with a "font compiler" which allows
you to collect the particular characters you need into a single font,
build pre-accented composites, etc.
SIL's Web site is <http://www.sil.org/>; for font-related queries, the
email address to use is <mailto:fo...@sil.org>.
Jonathan Kew
SIL
Gene Sorensen
Try Linguist's Software. Send your fax number or postal address and
ask for information on AfroRoman, and specify Macintosh or Windows.
PO Box 580
Edmonds, WA 98020-0580
USA
206-775-1130 voice
206-771-5911 fax
Regards,
Gene Sorensen
(Disclaimer: I work for Linguist's Software.)
pk...@flnet.com
Salomon,
Give me a buzz. We have one of the largest foreign font collections in
the world. No Ewe though. I would need a photocopy and keyboard
assignments to even start!
Paul King - President, Southern Software, Inc. (pk...@flnet.com)
www.ssifonts.com is the best Internet source for all your professional
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On 13 Nov 1996 08:30:34 GMT, sa...@netcom.ca(Salomon K. AGBENYA)
wrote:
>:-)Please help me find fonts for the Ewe language (spoken in West
>Africa: Ghana, Togo and Benin). I can find some characters in
>Wordperfect and MS-Word, but they are not easy to use, their sizes
>don't fit the "regular" characters, others are are missing, such as the
>reverse [C]that gives the sound [O] in [door]. The special characters
>are often taken from the phonetic alphabet.
>If someone out there wouldn't mind to give me her/his Fax #, I could
>fax her/him a photocopy of the Ewe alphabet. Olympia, in Germany, used
>to manufacture Ewe typewriters.
>I would really appreciate your help and suggestions
>
>Thanks
>
>Salomon
>sa...@netcom.ca
J%org Knappen
In article <56c0va$g...@tor-nn1-hb0.netcom.ca>, sa...@netcom.ca(Salomon K.
AGBENYA) wrote:
> :-)Please help me find fonts for the Ewe language (spoken in West
> Africa: Ghana, Togo and Benin).
LaTeX has Ewe support in the T4 fontencoding. The necessary software is free,
including the fc fonts for african languages. For more information about TeX,
LaTeX and the fc fonts, consult the newsgroup comp.text.tex.
--J"org Knappen
Clive Bruton/Typonaut
In article <3291148c...@news.packet.net>,
pk...@flnet.com wrote:
>Salomon,
>
>Give me a buzz. We have one of the largest foreign font collections in
>the world. No Ewe though. I would need a photocopy and keyboard
>assignments to even start!
A photocopy of what? Someone else's design?
-- Clive
dick...@aol.com
>
>Give me a buzz. We have one of the largest foreign font collections in
>the world. No Ewe though. I would need a photocopy and keyboard
>assignments to even start!
A photocopy of what? Someone else's design?
Clive:
You didn't understand. Let me translate into British English for you:
"We claim to be in the foreign-language font business but (a) don't know
enough about it to udnerstand what you are talking about; and (b) if you
show us what it is supposed to look like, we'll jerry-rig something to
sell you."
Welcome to the wonderful world in which every idiot with an inexpensive
computer is totally empowered to expertise in everything!
BTW, with any luck, I'll be spending next week on your turf visiting my
grandchildren in Tiverton, Devon.
-- Dick Weltz, Spectrum Multilanguage Communications, NYC
America's leading translators & foreign language typesetters
===================================================
Visit our Language News & Notes on the Web at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/SpectrumLang
Chuck Coker
On Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:01:06 GMT, pk...@flnet.com wrote:
> Give me a buzz. We have one of the largest foreign font collections in
> the world. No Ewe though. I would need a photocopy and keyboard
> assignments to even start!
When you speak Ewe, foreign languages include English. Do you have
one of the largest English language font collections in the world?
mawul...@gmail.com
> :-)Please help me find fonts for the Ewe language (spoken in West
> Wordperfect and MS-Word, but they are not easy to use, their sizes
> don't fit the "regular" characters, others are are missing, such as the
> reverse [C]that gives the sound [O] in [door]. The special characters
> are often taken from the phonetic alphabet.
> If someone out there wouldn't mind to give me her/his Fax #, I could
> fax her/him a photocopy of the Ewe alphabet. Olympia, in Germany, used
> to manufacture Ewe typewriters.
> I would really appreciate your help and suggestions
>
> Thanks
>
> Salomon
> sa...@netcom.ca
Thank you
Christian
--
Christian F. Buser, Hohle Gasse 6, CH-5507 Mellingen (Switzerland)
Hilfe fuer Strassenkinder in Ghana: http://www.chance-for-children.org