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African Latin fonts (presentation for AtypI '08)
This presentation was given at ATypi '08's TypeTech pre-conference in September 2008.
It presents the requirements of African orthographies in the Latin writing system, show what characters are needed with what advanced features using OpenType technology, and showcases some good and bad designs.
Benefits of Open Source license for fonts is also discussed.
The presentation is unded CC-by-sa-nc.
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AtypI08.odp | 581.12 KB |
AtypI08 African fonts.pdf | 260.03 KB |
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ANLoc Logo in SVG format
Attached are two ANLoc logos in SVG format.
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anloc-logo-vector-black-white.svg | 79.2 KB |
anloc-logo-vector.svg | 79.29 KB |
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Arabize and Training in Localisation
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Arabize and Training in Localisation_1.1.doc | 47 KB |
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Characters needed for African orthographies in Latin writing system
This is a list of 240 characters required for African orthographies in the Latin writing system.
charlist.txt is the set of 240 single characters, combining diacritics and precomposed characters. Comments mention which character need anchors for composition.
comblist.txt is the set of 285 composed characters known to be used. These can be used to test composition of base characters with combining diacritics.
Both files have comments after the # sign.
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charlist.txt | 2.61 KB |
comblist.txt | 4.39 KB |
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Getting your language included in the Information Age
Have you ever wondered how it would be if all the content on the web was in Kinyarwanda, and all the software interfaces where in Lingala? Think about it!
You would google something and all the search results would come back in Kirundi. We might be late in making it happen, but we can still make it happen.
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FreeCodeInt ISSNO 003 2009.pdf | 342.46 KB |
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HOW-TO for Mac Keyboard Layouts
This is a step-by-step guide for installing and using African keyboard layouts for Mac OSX. You will need a PDF viewer to open it.
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HOWTOInstall4MacOSX.pdf | 393.94 KB |
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HOW-TO for Windows Keyboard Installer
This is a step-by-step guide for installing and using African keyboard layouts for Windows XP or Vista. You will need a PDF viewer to open it.
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HOWTOInstall4WinXP1.pdf | 578.61 KB |
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Keyboards Presentation
Please find kasahorow and ANLoc keyboards presentation (in PDF) made in El Sokhna attached.
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kkeyboards.pdf | 199.14 KB |
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List of 2500 terms selected for the Terminology project
The attached list is the 2500 IT/L10n terms that have been selected for the Terminology project. This is the simple version of the list, showing only the original English terms.
We will soon post another version of the list that shows all of the English data for the glossary, including definitions, comments, tags, and syntactic groups. Data for each project language will be posted when complete.
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Glossmaster_en_source.txt | 24.9 KB |
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