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- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:32:21 CDT
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- From: Robin Cover <robin@UTAFLL.UTA.EDU>
- Subject: Falk on SLS Italic
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- Re:
- > From: Harry Falk <FALK@IBM.RUF.UNI-FREIBURG.DE>
- > Subject: SLS italics
- > To: Robin Cover <robin@UTAFLL.UTA.EDU>
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- > There are many of us waiting for NB4, but from all the discussions it
- > is hard to tell which new features necessitate the upgrade. Personally,
- > I need:
- > 1. SLS italics for transliterated asian languages,
- > 2. possibility to arrange small footnotes horizontally,
- > 3. shoulder notes
- > 4. more font sizes,
- > 5. diacritics of transliterated characters better placed (a-macron e.g.).
- > 6. simple ways to edit characters on screen and for the (HP) printer
-
- > This is about it. Apart for 1 and 4 NB4 does not give me relief. Again (if
- > beta 3.11 is to be trusted) many characters absolutely essential for
- > Vedic and Avestan, are absent (I had complained to DF about this
- > three years back). So I spent a week trying to understand the
- > sls-hp.prn file. The result is more than I expected: Now I print SLS
- > italics (underline on screen), have all characters needed and the
- > diacritics are where they should be. Good bye NB4. Anyone in need of
- > my prn-file may contact me and I'll send it - together with
- > explanations about how to compose characters for the HP P2.
-
- > Harry Falk
-
- Congratulations, Harry. I also once spent a week, maybe more, trying
- to get italic characters for the transliterations sets under SLS,
- since, it should have been obvious, if you have a non-Roman language
- in transliteration, then it's probably "foreign," and almost every
- style manual will want that "foreign" word in italics. Lack of italic
- support was just one of SLS's brain-dead features. Alas, I never
- quite got my revised printer drivers to work with HP II, so I finally
- gave up in discouragement. Awaited Lingua for another 2 - 2.5 years,
- shifted to PostScript printing environment, and now hear that the
- Lingua to be released will not support PostScript.
-
- So, Harry, please send me what you have: I may yet be forced back to
- tinkering with the HP in order to get proper printout of Greek, Hebrew
- and the transliteration characters. I may also be forced to buy
- an HP Laser printer unless I can trick an aging PostScript printer
- into emulating an HP (sans special HP font cartridges that would
- hardly work in an older Apple LaserWriter).
-
- If others face similar problems and have found good solutions (in SLS
- or in Lingua-Beta), please contact me.
-
- Robin Cover
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