Hi guys,
I have a problem.
Qur'an, for instance, does not really have an apostrophe in the middle, but, as I understand it, a hamza, which should look rather like a small 'c'. Character Viewer shows a 'high hamza', a 'c' with a little left tail, and although it claims that I have fonts that include the right glyph, none of them can be 'inserted with font'. I have faked it by using U+7580, which is literally a small high 'c', and while it looks OK in text in HTML, it will not appear if preceded by <li>, as in a table of contents.
Surely some of you who work with Arabic have solved this problem? I would like to get rid of the apostrophe, because for obscure reasons I have to keep switching between 'Educate Quotes' and 'Straighten Quotes' in Text Wrangler,
where I repair the dog's breakfast NWP produces when it exports HTML, and the fake hamza gets caught up in this and confused.
So, does anyone know how to get a hamza to work in an HTML5 list? (Rumor going back to Ubay ibn Kab claims that Mohammed pronounced Quran *without* the hamza, but I need at least one to show what I'm talking about.)
Happy New Year, and TIA.
Ferren
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500
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> Subject: NISUS Digest - 1 Jan 2012 to 2 Jan 2012 (#2012-3)
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> There are 10 messages totaling 815 lines in this issue.
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> Topics of the day:
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> 1. OT: Reply in Mail (8)
> 2. OT: Can NWP 2 read ePub documents?
> 3. OT: Thanks for birthday greetings (was Re: OT: Reply in Mail)
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>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:11:00 +0200
> From: John Brownie <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
> Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>>
>>> But "his-her", their, and the like need to be avoided in singular
>>> context. When that kind of context comes up the use of "his" to refer
>>> to all of society is appropriate and should be used. Citizens of the
>>> female sex (not gender) should accept the usage as referring to them
>>> in the same way that "homo" generally refers to the human species as
>>> a whole. Would you declare that homicide applies only to the killing
>>> of a man? But what about homosexual? Does that apply only to two
>>> males? Do we need a new word "ladycide"?
>>
>> Goodness, Doug, you need to inspect the legs of your hobby horse --
>> they are decidedly shaky. So no use of the plural to indicate a
>> singular? What about "you"? Is that singular or plural . . . or both,
>> setting a nice precedent for using "their" to refer to his/her when it
>> could be either or it stating the general case?
>>
>> In fact, the use of "his" and "man" to mean all people in English
>> refers to a period when the English paid women no respect at all --
>> they were simply chattels. A woman and her property belonged to the
>> husband, women could not inherit, the lord of the manor had first
>> rights over every virgin, etc., etc.
>>
>> I see it as good that the remnants of this sorry period of English
>> civilization are no longer commemorated daily in speech -- our society
>> has moved on (well, mostly) and our speech is/should be matching this
>> movement.
>>
>> "homo" is used colloquially to refer to male homosexuals; it refers to
>> all human kind when used in the scientific term "homo sapiens", which,
>> of course, did not exist in English until the day it was introduced,
>> and in special terms like "homicide".
>
> Not to mention that there are two Latin/Greek terms underlying the homo-
> prefix, the term for male and the term for same. Homosexual has nothing
> to do with male, but means "same-sex". Changing it is as bizarre as
> trying to change the "man" in "manuscript", where it refers to "hand".
>
> So let's all start speaking Finnish, where there is only one distinction
> in third person pronouns, animate/inanimate (although popular usage is
> scrapping the animate version)!
>
> John (about to travel, so going offline for a few days)
>
> --
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:09:51 +0100
> From: jem cabanes <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Can NWP 2 read ePub documents?
>
> I'm afraid I must agree with you entirely, Brian.
>
> jem cabanes
>
>
> --------
>
>
> On 2.01.2012, at 1.16, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>
>> That's the question.
>>
>> I recently downloaded an ePub book for reading on my iPad. I already
>> possess the original from some decades ago by now find reading on iPad
>> is much easier for me. I can't explain why.
>>
>> But the 'translation' from the original is so appalling that I would
>> just love to run it through NWP 2.0.2 and do some Find/Replace work.
>>
>> Some thoughts on ePub format.
>> Using the volume I downloaded as a starting point, I have a suspicion
>> that whoever produces the eBook does a scan of the original, runs the
>> file through an OCR application, does not do much editing, converts it
>> to ePub format and then loads it onto a web page, or similar.
>>
>> It may also depend on the particular publisher - one book by the same
>> author is perfect, others ruined by bad editing, I assume.
>>
>> I am trying to contact the publisher of the poor example.
>>
>> For anyone really interested, I'll give details if asked.
>> ------------------------
>> Regards from brianF
>> ===============
>>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 07:10:03 -0400
> From: THDW <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
>
> On 1 Jan 2012, at 20:51, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>> "homo" is used colloquially to refer to male
>> homosexuals;
>
> Wow!
>
> Silly me, thinking the homo stem was from the Greek and had absolutely
> nothing to do with the Latin word for man. Does that mean a lesbian is
> not a homosexual since she likes ladies?
>
> T
>
>
>
>
>
> THDW
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:14:40 +0100
> From: jem cabanes <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
> Happy birthday, Geoff.
>
> jem cabanes
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> --------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
> On 2.01.2012, at 1.11, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>> At 10:41 AM +1100 2/1/12, Brian Ferguson wrote:
>>> Good point Geoff.
>>>
>>> I do have a set of applications listed under the Applications/Folder
>>> as iWork '09 but this is misleading.
>>>
>>> Inside the folder are the three applications Keynote 5.11, Number
>>> 2.1 and Pages 4.1, the Date Modified is 2 December 2011 for Keynote
>>> and the latter two on 22 July 2011.
>>>
>>> Date Created is 21 December 2008 for all as shown in my
>>> Applications/iWork Finder window, but that may be the date I
>>> installed them from the DVD.
>>>
>>> I don't have a record but I think that the modification dates
>>> 22/07/2011 would have been close to the release date of Lion; i.e.
>>> they would have been Lionised after prior upgrading for Snow Leopard.
>>
>> Thanks, Brian. So they've had updates through Software Update, no
>> doubt, but no outright new versions.
>>
>>> I also suspect that Apple's main interest now is to get Apps for
>>> iPhone, iPad, etc. up and running. The Computer side is now not so
>>> important that applications need continuing upgrading.
>>
>> A sign of which is Lion itself which is a computer version of the
>> i-interface. Someone remarked on the Mac Forum at DPReview regarding
>> program purchases from the App store. I note that programs are now no
>> longer sold from the online Mac store and what was headed for being a
>> premier program, Aperture (super iPhoto), hasn't been upgraded for
>> two years. (I think it's a bum of a program anyway, paid $99 for it
>> from the App store and dumped it in the rubbish after struggling with
>> it for a month, so from my PoV no development is no loss.) Yes, I
>> think you're right -- computers per se are low on Apple's agenda now.
>>
>>> Ah, for those having a lovely White Xmas, today and tomorrow will be
>>> a sharp 40 degrees.
>>> Celsius.
>>
>> Sorry, Brian, not with you on that! No white Christmases or 2nds of
>> January for me, thanks, and I feel I have dibs on the 2nd Jan since
>> it's my birthday.
>>
>> I'm just back from walking down the street to buy a loaf of bread,
>> some lemons (need them for the gin & tonics -- man cannot live by
>> bread alone particularly at my age when preservatives can be
>> all-important), and eggs and cinnamon sticks (for the birthday lunch
>> dessert -- Portuguese custard thing with clouds of poached meringue
>> floating on it).
>>
>> So I'll take the heat any time -- although 40 is slightly ridiculous.
>> In my favoured tropical hangouts it's only 30-32 all the time.
>>
>> Yesterday, we spent the afternoon napping, reading, and surfing on
>> the Internet while reclining in the amazing replacement for banana
>> lounges that Bunnings now sells (like those ubiquitous canvas folding
>> chairs, but gone feral -- extremely comfortable and far superior to
>> the old banana lounge) in the shade of a big elm in the back yard.
>> The wireless thing in the house just reaches that far.
>>
>> Cheers, geoff
>>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 10:19:58 -0200
> From: Gerhard Beurlen <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
>>> Sorry, Brian, not with you on that! No white Christmases or 2nds of
>>> January for me, thanks, and I feel I have dibs on the 2nd Jan since
>>> it's my birthday.
>
> Hi Geoffrey,
>
> happy birthday to you!!!
>
> G.Beurlen
> Rio de Janeiro Brazil
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 11:59:32 -0400
> From: THDW <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
> Happy birthday, Geoff!
>
>
> But do promise us guys (pace Anne) on this list that you have no
> intention of growing up.
>
> Remember Peter Ustinov in the Sundowners who grew sideways?
>
> Best
>
>
> T
>
>
>
> On 1 Jan 2012, at 20:11, Geoffrey Heard wrote:
>
>> Sorry, Brian, not with you on that! No white Christmases or 2nds of
>> January for me, thanks, and I feel I have dibs on the 2nd Jan since
>> it's my birthday.
>
> THDW
> [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 21:07:24 +0100
> From: Þorvarður Davíðsson
> <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
> On 02.01.2012, at 01:48, THDW wrote:
>
>>> from the Mailbox menu, apply the 'Rebuild' command.
>>> This will rebuild all mailboxes and hopefully resolve the issue.
>>>
>>
>> Done that, Hamid, but still no joy.
>
>
> Tim, have you checked the "com.apple.mail.plist" files? There are two
> such files, one in your Home folder [~/Library/Preferences] and one in
> /Library/Preferences.
>
>
> I would now
>
> 1) Quit Mail
>
> 2) drag the "com.apple.mail.plist" file in your Home folder
>
> ~/Library/Preferences/
>
> to the desktop. A new "com.apple.mail.plist" file will be automatically
> created in the old location as soon as you restart Mail.
>
> 3) Start Mail and see if the problem persists.
>
>
> If the problem remains then drag the old "com.apple.mail.plist" from the
> desktop back into the folder ~/Library/Preferences/
>
> As next
>
> A) Quit Mail
>
> B) drag the "com.apple.mail.plist" file in
>
> /Library/Preferences/
>
> to the desktop.
>
> C) Start Mail and see if the issue has been resolved.
>
> If it has now been resolved you may have to restore your old Mail
> settings if you want something else than the default settings.
>
>
> Best,
> Þorvarður
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:24:01 +1100
> From: Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
> At 7:11 AM +0200 2/1/12, John Brownie wrote:
>>
> >Not to mention that there are two Latin/Greek terms underlying the
> >homo- prefix, the term for male and the term for same. Homosexual
> >has nothing to do with male, but means "same-sex". Changing it is as
> >bizarre as trying to change the "man" in "manuscript", where it
> >refers to "hand".
>
> Gawd -- I forgot that part of it; I knew something was nagging t the
> bag of my head, but I couldn't think of it.
>
> >So let's all start speaking Finnish, where there is only one
> >distinction in third person pronouns, animate/inanimate (although
> >popular usage is scrapping the animate version)!
>
> I'll stick with your average Austronesian language, thanks, piram!
>
> Cheers, geoff
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:27:00 +1100
> From: Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: OT: Thanks for birthday greetings (was Re: OT: Reply in Mail)
>
> Muito obrigado Gerhard and many thanks Jem.
>
> Cheers, geoff
>
> At 10:19 AM -0200 2/1/12, Gerhard Beurlen wrote:
> >Content-Type: text/html
> >Content-Description: Versão HTML da Mensagem
> >Content-Disposition: inline
> >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>> >> Sorry, Brian, not with you on that! No white Christmases or 2nds of
>>>> January for me, thanks, and I feel I have dibs on the 2nd Jan since
>>>> it's my birthday.
>>
>>
> >Hi Geoffrey,
>>
> >happy birthday to you!!!
>>
> >G.Beurlen
> >Rio de Janeiro Brazil
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:22:16 +1100
> From: Geoffrey Heard <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: OT: Reply in Mail
>
> At 11:59 AM -0400 2/1/12, THDW wrote:
> >Happy birthday, Geoff!
>>
> >But do promise us guys (pace Anne) on this list that you have no
> >intention of growing up.
>>
> >Remember Peter Ustinov in the Sundowners who grew sideways?
>
> Hio, ho, T. My goal in life is NOT to grow sideways. Not to grow up
> either. Just battling to retain the status quo! :)
>
> Cheers, geoff
>
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>
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