Catharsis Bedouin ***************** A TrueType font created by Christian Thalmann (cinga at gmx dot net). Distribute and use freely, but not without this readme file. If you should use it for a poster campaign, flyer, invitation or something, I'd appreciate it if you'd send me an e-mail about it. I like to see my work put to use. =) This particular font is more complex to use than my usual ones. Every letter has an initial, medial and final form so as to allow fluent words with nice beginnings and ends. Some letters have even more forms for special situations. Finally, there are a bunch of accents and word primers/terminators for decoration. The keyboard setup is extremely simple to learn on a Mac. Just switch to the American keyboard setting, and all medial letter forms will lie on lowercase letter keys, all initial ones on uppercase keys, and all final ones on ALT+letter keys. The German umlauted letters are found in their standard positions on the German or Swiss German keyboard setting, i.e. on the ' ; [ keys of the American keyboard. A more complete inventory follows below. On a PC, you might need to use an ASCII table or Unicode commands to type. Or then somebody could write up a nice Java program to convert text into the fitting code? Not my job, anyway. :o) IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT SIMPLE, you can restrict yourself to initial (uppercase) and medial (lowercase) letters, using the handy terminators (on the grave accent key, ie the grave accent and ASCII tilde characters) to cap off any trailing connecting base line. This should be easy enough to do even on a PC. -- Christian Thalmann Special characters inventory **************************** (i)=initial, (m)=medial, (f)=final; S=shift, A=alt Bedouin Character Mac Keyboard Correspondent Character ================================================================= Bound exclamation mark S 1 ! Free exclamation mark A 1 inverse ! Bound question mark S / ? Free question mark A / divide Bound comma (f) , , Bound period (f) . . Bound comma (i) S , < Bound period (i) S . > Bound inv. period (i) A , less or equal Bound inv. period (f) A . greater or equal Free comma S A , macron Free period S A . breve Free colon S A ; U acute Bound apostrophe / / Bound space A non-breaking space S A / inverse ? Free hyphen - - Bound hyphen A - endash Bound underscore S - underscore Bound ornament S A - emdash Slash S A 1 fraction Asterisk S 8 * Terminator (i) ` ` Terminator (f) S ` ascii tilde Crescent (i) S 9 ( Crescent (f) S 0 ) Scimitar (i) A 9 ord. feminine Scimitar (f) A 0 ord. masculine Inv. scimitar (i) S A 9 period centered Inv. scimitar (f) S A 0 single quote base Apostrophe (i) A 7 paragraph S A q OE ligature Apostrophe (f) S A 7 double dagger S A a A ring Dot accent, e-sized \ \ Dot accent, a-sized S \ bar Dot accent, u-sized A \ guillemet left Dot accent, sub S A \ guillemet right Triple accent, e-sized ] ] Triple accent, a-sized S ] brace right Triple accent, u-sized A ] quote left Triple accent, sub S A ] quote right Breve accent, e-sized = = Breve accent, a-sized S = + Breve accent, u-sized A = not equal Breve accent, sub S A = plus/minus Crown accent, e-sized S A 6 fl ligature Crown accent, a-sized S 6 ASCII circumflex Crown accent, u-sized A 6 section Candle accent, u-sized S A 5 fl ligature Long s (m) S A s I acute Ss ligature (m) S 5 % Ss ligature (f) A 5 infinity Tt ligature (m) S A t caron F ligature (m) S A f I dieresis L ligature (m) S A l O grave C cedille (m) A 4 cent C cedille (i) S A 4 single guillemet right Solitary a S A ' AE ligature Solitary i S A [ double quote right Solitary o A 8 bullet Solitary u S A 8 degree Dotless i (i) S 2 @ Dotless i (m) S A 2 currency Dotless i (f) A 2 trademark Dotless j (i) S 3 # Dotless j (m) S A 3 single guillemet left Dotless j (f) A 3 sterling Triple dot M (m) S A m A circumflex