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From: straka@cbnewsc.att.com (richard.j.straka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: How do I write Polish on my Mac?
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.141706.618@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 14:17:06 GMT
References: <1991Feb5.153204.9402@daimi.aau.dk>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1991Feb5.153204.9402@daimi.aau.dk> serges@daimi.aau.dk (Ulrik Serges) writes:
>Regular (Adobe) PostScript fonts includes the diacritical mark "ogonek"
>("inverse cedilla") and the special letter "L with dash" used in Polish,
>but in the Macintosh characters set, these characters are replaced by
>some other characters.
>  To use these characters, I would have to remap my character set; has
>anyone done this? How could it be done? I think, I have to remap both
>the FONT-resource and the PostScript-definition of the font; the former
>can be done by fiddling around with ResEdit; but how do I do the latter?

I have seen a PostScript font catalog for non-english languages, including
Russian, Slavic, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, MidEast Times, Tibetan, (French,
Spanish, ... Roman alphabets). And on to Malayalam, Bengali DD, Devangari,
Katakana, Bopomofo Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Mongolian ('Phas-pa).  I think
you're getting the picture.

They seem to support times and helvetica on roman-related alphabets.

They also supply (or just compatibility with?) script manager software,
to support some right-to-left writing with some WPs.

It comes from:

Ecological Linguistics,
PO Box 15156
Washington DS, 20003
USA
(202)546-5862

Their Type 1 fonts seem to cost about $60-$200 US ($40 for roman alphabets).
They also have some utilities that provide sane sorting order for Excel, ...

They request $5.00 US (and a self-addressed address label) for a copy of
their catalog.  I got mine as a result of my user group affiliation.

Standard Disclaimers Apply
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Richard Straka                    AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH-6K311
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