![]() The conversion of files containing text written with ITimesSkRom didn't work properly with Nisus Writer Pro I fixed this problem - and at the same time, I re-generated ITimesSkRom and Hobogirin, so that they will work in OS X applications (on this point, see my another page Font Problems in OS 10.4.x and later).ġ.I changed the Roman substitution font from Gandhari Unicode to Gentium (because in some situation, Gandhari Unicode seems to cause display problems).I added the support of Norman in automatic font conversion.I changed the Perl code so that it will work also on OS 10.3x.I added a new droplet, NWE_convert_diacritical_fonts.app, which will convert Appeal, Hobogirin and ITimesSkRom to Gentium, in Nisus Writer Express/Pro files: that is to say, if you have already converted Classic Nisus Writer files containing these fonts to Nisus Writer Express/Pro rtf files, and you want to convert these files into files with Gentium to represent diacritical characters, you will use this droplet.I added the support of Appeal in automatic font conversion.Unfortunately, this script is very slow - for an rtf file of 400 KB, il can take perhaps more than one minute., so please be patient, and don't panic thinking that there was a crash. &U+00CA that is, "&U+" followed by a hexadecimal Unicode number, followed by " " - ex.&'#1234 that is, " " followed by a decimal Unicode number, followed by " " - ex.This script has another feature: if the file contains one or more fonts to be converted, it will convert at the same time Unicode html entities of two formats: In the current form, my script can convert only Appeal, ITimesSkRom and Hobogirin (which will be substituted to Gentium), but I will be able to add other fonts to be supported, if you give me a conversion table, and the name of the preferred font of substitution I will need also a Nisus Writer Express/Pro rtf file in which both the original font and the font of substitution are used. For my own use, I will use Gentium font instead of Appeal, ITimesSkRom, Hobogirin, or Norman, and I will use Hiragino Moru Gothic Pro instead of Osaka. This script can also substitute newer fonts for old fonts. I could write a Perl script which can convert these diacritical characters, and incorporate it in the AppleScript droplet mentioned above. And even if the fonts work, the diacritical characters written in these fonts must be converted to Unicode otherwise, the converted rtf files will be unreadable for people who have not these fonts and it will be impossible to search in these files. It seems that some fonts - such as BharatiTimes or SanskritTimes - won't work in OS X (or 10.4x?) applications. I wrote a page, East Asian Diacritical Fonts and Unicode, where I presented a number of conversion tables to Unicode for these fonts. A simple AppleScript droplet can remedy this situation: you can simply drag and drop your Classic Nisus Writer files to open them in Nisus Writer Express/Pro and save them as Nisus Writer Express/Pro rtf files.Īnother problem remains for those who had to use special encoding fonts in Classic Nisus Writer, to represent characters which are not in standard character sets, for example scholars who have to transliterate Asian language words using special encoding fonts. The translation of Classic Nisus Writer files to Nisus Writer Express/Pro rtf files is becoming better too: styles, fonts, scripts, footnotes are generally "translated" correctly - although there are still problems (for example, Japanese fonts are not "translated" correctly Nisus Writer Express/Pro is unable to include long footnotes in pages, etc.).īut if you have many Classic Nisus Writer files, it is cumbersome to open each of them in Nisus Writer Express/Pro and save them in new files. Anyway, with the release of the new Intel Macs, it seems that we cannot expect any future for Classic OS we are compelled to migrate whether we like it or not. ![]() ![]() Nisus Writer Express is becoming better and better with its upgrades, although its feature set is not yet comparable with that of Classic Nisus Writer. ![]()
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