Dear everybody,
I trust itıs not quite too late yet to wish you all a peaceful, prosperous
year, and another year of lively and friendly exchanges.
Here comes my first question for 2012. I remember an exchange of mails with
Kino in particular over this issue.
I have written a book in which there are lots of texts in Syriac, which,
like Hebrew and Arabic, is written R>L. The problem arises because my text
is a mixture of data input R>L and L>R. The Syriac font Iım using is used in
the Classic environment (OS 9.2, NW version 6) with Euro Script. It is a
product of Linguistıs Software.
The publisher wants an rtf version as well, which I canıt produce in the
above-mentioned environment. What I do then is to e-mail the text to my iMac
(OS X; NW Pro version 1). Then the problem starts. The Syriac font is
transmitted alright, no hieroglyphics. The problem is actually twofold.
1) In the main body of the text above on the screen, a Syriac sentence,
say, consisting of four words, comes over alright as far as the sequence of
Syriac characters within individual words is concerned. But when the
sentence is split over two adjacent lines, the sequence of Words gets
disturbed. For instance, I get the first line ending with <d + c> and the
next line starting with <b + a> when the first line should end with <b + a>.
Furthermore, very occasionally, a word gets split across the line
boundary or a word appears outside of the left-hand margin.
2) Footnotes. A complete mess. Even within individual words, the
sequence of characters appears reversed, back to front. Here, of course, I
can gratefully fall back on the macro written by Kino and reverse the
sequence and get the whole thing right. I donıt see why the footnotes
section gets discriminated this way.
Any advice and input would be much appreciated.
Takamitsu Muraoka
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