dhosek@gauss.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (02/28/91)
Archive-name: fonts/thai/tex-thai-fonts/1991-02-27 Archive-directory: ymir.claremont.edu:[tex.babel.thai] [134.173.4.23] Original-posting-by: dhosek@gauss.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) Original-subject: Re: Thai fonts needed Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <17197@milton.u.washington.edu>, haccme@milton.u.washington.edu (Thomas Ridgeway) writes: > In article <1991Feb22.204332.9992@ioe.lon.ac.uk> teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) writes: > [deleted] >>The only Thai font I know of are those developed in METAFONT for use >>with TeX, by Tom Ridgeway and colleagues at the Univ. of Washington, >>Seattle. These can be used on any computer and with any printer, of >>course, since this is true of TeX. > unfortunately, I must disclaim authorship; I am also uninformed as to the > true authors. Thai font(s) are available on ymir.claremont.edu for > anonymous ftp, I believe in tex.babel.thai (or tex/babel/thai as we > say in Unix). Except for authorship, Dominik is otherwise correct > as to use on any output device, etc. Actually, to be precise, there are _two_, count' em TWO Thai fonts on ymir. Not being a speaker of Thai myself, I haven't looked too closely at these fonts, but I do recall that the key difference between them laid in their interface. One was set up so that the user would type in two character sequences to access each character (kind of interesting in that), the other was one-key, one-character. A third Thai font for TeX was developed by Dr. Robert Batzinger and associates at United Bible Societies in Southeast Asia. The last time we were in the same part of the world, I saw some samples of his font and it is quite beautiful. However, trying to make postal mail contact with Southeast Asia is a difficult task at best, so I still don't have access to the typeface. Maybe this summer... -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.