Ferren MacIntyre wrote: > I am out of my depth here. Cristoph Luxenberg (remember him? Muslims get > 70 white grapes, not virgins? /Hur/, not /houri/.) says parts of the > Quran seem to have been written in 'Syro-Aramaic', because /hapax > legomena/ disappear when /ayn/ and /lam/ are exchanged. Somebody > corrected Luxenberg, saying it wasn't Syro-Aramaic, but just Syriac. > > I succeeded, at least partially, in installing a Syriac font (one of the > SyrCOMxxx.otf suite out of melthofonts-1.21). It display an alphabet > with scattered Cyrillic characters, clearly not what I am looking for. I > have seen 'Syriac' fonts with Arabic-style characters, which is what I > need, so clearly, Syriac covers more territory than I can deal with > intelligently. What I am looking for is perhaps related to Hatra, the > almost-Fertile-Crescent site that ISIS just bulldozed. > > Can any of you linguists sort me out here? the characters I am looking > are fundamentally the right side and base of triangles, /lam/ tall and > /ayn/ short, and so easy to confuse in mss Hello Ferren - Have been looking into my font library, but strangely enough I don't have any Syriac fonts among the more than 300.000 fonts I have in the library... But I found this one on the net. Maybe it can be useful. It's an OTF font, so doesn't need any kind of conversion before installing, and it seems to be freeware/donateware. Just double-click it and FontViewer opens and you can add the font. <http://www.bethmardutho.org/index.php/syriac-mac/51.html> Click on 'Download Fonts' and both font and instructions / userguide are available. HTH. Cheers, Erik Richard -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC, <[log in to unmask]> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Text Processing - www.nisus.com Openoffice.org - The Modern Productivity Solution - www.openoffice.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~