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Font Name: |
Gaeilge
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Created By: |
Padraig McCarthy
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http://www.getfreefonts.com/
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Email: |
padrgmcc@iol.ie
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Description: |
The Irish language has its own rules of pronunciation. The five vowels, and
nine of the 13 consonants used, can have their sound modified by the addition
of a lenghtening stroke in the case of the vowels, and by the addition of an
overhead dot or a subsquent letter "h" in the case of nine consonants, as
in GAELACH of title above.
These files provide a TrueType font for Microsoft Windows 3.1 to enable
printing of Irish language documents using the "lenition" or aspiration
as a dot over these nine consonants, as an alternative to using the letter "h"
as has become more common since the introduction of the Linotype machine this
century. The font is as easy to use as any TrueType font in Windows 3.1.
The font can also, of course, be used with the "h" - all the normal characters
of the alphabet as used in the English language are provided as usual.
To make easy your access to the characters with the modifying dot, as also to
the vowels with an overhead stroke to signify lengthening, a set of macros
called GAEILGE.REC is provided for use under Windows Recorder. Instead of
having to consult a table of numbers, you can produce the characters by using
the Ctrl, Alt and Shift keys with the appropriate letter key.
Ctrl+Alt+letterkey produces lower case characters with dot or stroke.
These used with the Shift key as normal produce the upper case characters.
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Creator Info: |
All comments, suggestions, and further developments will be welcome!
Padraig McCarthy
Chaplain's House
Cherry Orchard Hospital
Dublin 10, Ireland
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License: |
The font is not copyright. It is in the Public Domain, so you should
receive it free of charge, except perhaps for the cost of disk, and postage
and administration if any. Distribution and development are encouraged,
as are comments and suggestions to the author!
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Additional Info: |
Fuller information is in the file GAEILGE1.WRI which can be read and printed
under the Windows Write program. There is also a sample sheet of the font:
GSAMPLE.WRI. If you view or print either of these before installing
the Font, there will be strange characters where there should be the
the special characters of the font. However, GAEILGE.WRI as a whole can
be read sufficiently well to understand.
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