Re: Font with Anglo Saxon Characters Wanted

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From: jimi
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1989 15:54

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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.  He is working on a thesis and needs them to
> finish up.  They exist for special programs on the IBM.  The big
> question is, do they exist for the mac.

Here's an answer to part of the question: Adobe's PostScript
fonts contain ash, eth, macron, and thorn (majorscule and miniscule
for ash, eth, and thorn). Other PostScript font vendors who supply
the same character set in their fonts will have these also.

Those who have PostSript printers will have these characters in
their printers' resident fonts.

I don't know, specifically, if any Mac applications support these
characters.
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Jim Ingram	          uunet!h-three!jimi | jimi%h-three@uunet.uu.net
h-three Systems Corporation   P.O. Box 12557 RTP NC 27709   919 549 8334

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From: jimi@h-three.UUCP (jimi)
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Subject: Re: Font with Anglo Saxon Characters Wanted
Summary: PostScript fonts contain Anglo-Saxon glyphs
Keywords: needed for thesis
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Date: 22 Nov 89 15:54:32 GMT
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