fonts in wincom

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> > Wouldn't it be a good idea if Ramakanta Prabhu created WinCOM fonts that

> > map the diacritic characters that are used in the fonts in the

> > Bhaktivedanta Vedabase Folio program?

>

> These (Balaram) fonts cannot be used for non-English languages and

> therefore I didn't use their character map in WinCOM. But I could improve

> the VEDA2ASC.EXE program so that it can also convert from Balaram to

> WinCOM.

 

VEDA2ASC.EXE already works with the Folio fonts to WinCOM. But if the

WinCOM fonts mapped the diacritic characters, we could have the benefit of

marked-up sanskrit in WinCOM very nicely. Snooping around, there are 6

Wincom fonts; f1, f2, f5, v1, v2 & v5. These are two groups, Fixed and

Variable pitch respectively. Now the '5' fonts seem to have the cyrillic

(Russian) characters in them and personally I use the '1' fonts, which I'm

sure most people do. The bottom half of the character set is full of stuff

I NEVER see in COM. The main diacritic characters are:

 

code wincom folio font character

font

char

--------------

0228 ä a with mantissa

0233 é i with mantissa

0199 Ç S with acute accent

0213 Õ s with acute accent

0241 ñ s with underdot

0229 å r with underdot

0235 ë n with underdot

 

Obviously there are some more like 'm with overdot', 'n with tilde' etc. but

what I am trying to say is that I ONLY ever see the 'wincom font char's' as

above when some devotee quotes from Folio and the diacritics map the wrong

chars!

 

So how about it, Ramakanta Prabhu, you know it makes sense...

 

Your servant,

Vraja Kumara das