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From: halldors@paul.rutgers.edu (Magnus M Halldorsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Font with Anglo Saxon Characters Wanted
Keywords: needed for thesis
Message-ID: <Nov.21.12.07.52.1989.9885@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 89 17:07:52 GMT
References: <Nov.20.23.42.19.1989.7418@elbereth.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <Nov.20.23.42.19.1989.7418@elbereth.rutgers.edu> adishian@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Aram Adishian) writes:

> 	A student walked into our office today looking for a font that
> could handle thorn, ash, eth, and makrons, characters used in
> anglo-saxon writing.

Most (and perhaps all) anglo-saxon characters exist in Modern Icelandic.
I don't know what "ash" and "makrons" are though.

> The big
> question is, do they exist for the mac.

An Icelandic system for the Mac can be bought from APDA for $10-20.

There's also \oe TeX fonts available on the systems here.

Magnus