[XeTeX] Old Persian (Getting slightly off topic \ldots)

[Robert Voogdgeert]

Op 29-aug-04 om 18:17 heeft Yves Codet het volgende geschreven:

> I also saw an Unicode font, Alphabetum:

Yves,


Thanks very much!
The alphabetic cuneiform Ugaritic looks quite good at a first glance. 
This is the only Unicode font that contains Ugaritic, as far as I know 
and it looks better than the Ugarite font from the Archaic package. It 
would have been even better had it contained syllabic Ugaritic glyphs. 
What really should be added for any serious Ugaritology is the variant 
graphemes, e.g. the nu (or nun as it is called in the font) with four 
wedges instead of three.
Specifically interesting is the fact that the Hebrew contains the 
cantilation marks too! Up-till now only Lucida contained cantilation 
marks next too vowel signs. I will certainly try the font and see 
whether the kerning problems that Lucida gave me, are absent in this 
font.


Regards,
Robert.