AnmolLipi AmrLipi & Gurbani Fonts User`s Manual
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1. The following eleven characters previously not found in the Amrit Lipi have been included in the GurbaniLipi and other fonts that followed See acknowledgment at the bottom of xk this page The areas are shaded simply to illustrate the relationships of characters to the baseline Shapes for vary in different printed versions of Guru Granth Sahib and also within the same edition In the fonts included on the Gurbani CD the characters are open at the tops as suggested by Dr Kulwant Singh The eleventh character shown above is a dot character that can be used to put a bindi dot under any character This is essentially an extra character The right upward sloped part of 98 is more sloped There are two tippi characters in the Amrit Lipi as well as in the GurbaniLlpi fonts However the key map locations of these tippi characters is reversed as compared to Amrit Lipi See details under Important Information about Seemingly Duplicate Characters in the Gurmukhi Fonts on the Gurbani CD The key board mapping of fonts on the Gurbani CD is improved and allows one to create and use the spell checking dictionaries For the same reason an extra character that is required after Q is included in these fonts See more regarding this under Important Information About Seemingly Duplicate Characters in the Gurmukhi fonts on the Gurbani CD Key maps of these fonts are easier to remember and make it possible to access few2. AutoCorrect feature of your Word Processor be adjusted so that it may not correct two consecutive capitals in a word In case of Microsoft Word 6 0 this feature can be adjusted by selecting the command AutoCorrect from the tools menu and then deselecting Correct TWo INitial CApitals in the dialogue that follows Viewing Fonts in Detail It is important to emphasize the fact that even a good quality monitor like the Super VGA will not display a very small size of characters with clarity and for a very small size of text Windows often will change the type face to a proprietary one This exclusively is due to the limitations of display resolution Print quality depends to a great extent on the printer you use A good quality printer can print many times more dots per inch than what most of good monitors can display Commonly used laser printers print 300 dots per inch or 90 000 dots per square inch whereas most of the computer monitors show about 75 dots per inch or 5625 dots per square inch the difference is 16 fold However most of the computer monitors have one distinct edge over most of the printers Computer monitors can show many colors and each dot can display a color by picking among millions whereas dots in most of the printers are printed with one bit mode like black or white and gray tones or colors are simulated by combining such dots To have a real detailed look of any character shape it is important to vie
3. above will help the user become an expert on the use of Dr Thind s Fonts However if you need further information or help please feel free to contact him General Information about Dr Thind s Fonts The Gurmukhi Hindi amp GurbaniRomanizing TrueType or PostScript Type 1 Type faces that Dr Thind has developed as a service to the Panjabi Hindi writing reading community are available for the Macintosh and also for the IBM compatible computers that use MS Windows operating system The creation and distribution of Dr Thind s fonts is not being done as a business venture Although Dr Thind has invested a huge amount of time and have incurred significant costs in developing and distributing his type faces he has not as yet accepted any money from any recipient of his type faces some individuals did mail MOs or checks generally for ten dollars or so but all were returned Dr Thind has been distributing his Gurmukhi type faces free of charges for many years Note Some individuals may have made profit without his knowledge Please note that persons authorized by Dr Thind to distribute his typefaces are permitted to charge a reasonable fee for postage handling and disk etc Disclaimer All software data provided on the Gurbani CD including all type faces is distributed AS IS Author disclaims all warranties of the software whether expressed or implied including but not limited to any implied warranties of merchantability fitne
4. growing up in the western part of the world Thus it is also important that character mapping be such that intended Gurmukhi dictionary words are recognized by the computer software as the dictionary characters The key mapping for Amrit Lipi has been somewhat deficient in this regard This situation has been corrected in the Gurmukhi fonts on the Gurbani CD Similar value has to be given to various Search amp Replace functions Thus Dr Thind has attempted to use natural locations for those characters that also exist in the English fonts Character locations for non dictionary characters such as lt gt _ can not be used for dictionary characters if Spell Checking and flexible Search amp Replace functions All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 15 are to be done with a reasonable ease NOTE GurbaniHindi has too many characters making it difficult to achieve this goal 4 Issues of Quote Characters Most people love to use smart or curly quote characters instead of regular quote characters for English as well as for Gurmukhi Hindi writing Most popular word processors have the option of automatic insertion of curly quotes amp when using those keys for straight quotes This is a function that most people love to use as it simplifies the use of double or single curly smart quote characters By using this automation
5. more characters as upper and lower case Some of the software will display and print such characters regardless of whether there be a character on the left or not The labor of searching all the special characters in Shri Guru Granth Sahib was done by Dr Kulwant Singh Dr Thind is grateful to him The extra dot character is also included as per his suggestion All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA Many a fonts of the Gurbani CD have also been improved by modifying character shapes so as to make characters more clear on the computer monitor clarity problems are only an issue at smaller sizes of text and for low resolution printing It needs to be clarified that the minimum line spacing in the fonts on the Gurbani CD is more than in Amrit Lipi However it is possible to adjust line spacing below the minimum allowed in the font by using fixed spacing But not all word processors allow fixed spacing Care should be exercised when using fixed line spacing as characters between lines can overlap each other and in some cases may get cut depending upon your computer printer setup Important Information about Conversion of Amrit Lipi Documents to Documents Using fonts given on the Gurbani CD AnmolLipi AmrLipi GurbaniAkhar amp GurbaniLipi families of fonts have a similar key maps However these fonts have a somewhat different key map than the Amrit Lipi fonts Th
6. the computers with English keyboards There are more than 125 working characters in each of these type faces and 94 of those can be accessed as upper and lower case characters GurbaniHindi type face has many more characters to make it suitable for writing Hindi GurbaniRomanizing type face is optimized for romanizing GurbaniLipi text with ease Ease of remembering the location of characters was one factor that played a major role in deciding mapping With the help of proper software such type faces can also be rotated and outlines of their characters manipulated to produce many types of visual effects such as skewing stretching compressing twisting and distributing With these type faces you can routinely use effects such as bolding underlining outlining shadowing and italicizing All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA of characters However many other issues such as convertibility of files between the Macintosh and IBM compatible PCs were taken into consideration The most important characters are available as upper and lower case and are arranged ina way to make it easier to remember their arrangement Please see more regarding key mapping under Information about Key Mapping 2 Type face size is balanced for esthetic mixing with the popular English type faces without the need to change size Some useful Hints and Discussion on the Use of Fonts on the Gu
7. AnmolLipi AmrLipi amp Gurbani Fonts User s Manual AUTHOR Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 4338 USA CONTENTS a Assumptions Made for Preparing His Document 4 5 7 Important Information about Conversion of Amrit Lipi Documents to GurbaniLipi Documents 10 Important Information About Seemingly Duplicate Characters in the 11 fonts on the Gurbani CD Information about Key Mapping 12 Information about Transfer of Files between PC MS windows amp 15 Macintosh Computers General Information about Amrit Lipi Gurbani amp other Fonts E NOTE This manual does not refer to the fonts included inside the Ramingt_ folder on the Gurbani CD The terms fonts on the Gurbani CD or fonts included on the Gurbani CD are loosely used in this manual and do not relate to the fonts inside the Ramingt_ folder All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA INTRODUCTION Information in this document is designed to help you successfully use the fonts provided on the Gurbani CD This document is prepared with a number of fonts including many from the Gurbani CD Thus before attempting to read or print this document the user should install the fonts provided on the Gurbani CD by running InstalTT exe program on the Gurbani CD This document may be printed for easy reference This manual has information both for PC amp Macintos
8. e character map character layout on the key board and ANSI numbers in case of MS Windows operating system Memorizing the key map will help in gaining speed in typing these Gurmukhi or Hindi fonts With practice one can get used to the character map and to other peculiarities of typing and editing Gurmukhi amp Hindi fonts Users should refer to the character maps that are included on the Gurbani CD To achieve consistent results especially for creating amp using spell checking dictionaries and for Find amp Replace functions it is important to use a standard method of sequencing the characters Due to the existence of overlapping characters in the Gurmukhi fonts this issue becomes too important to ignore When two overlapping characters are used one after the other it is hard to tell their sequence just by looking at a word Whenever it is necessary to type two overlapping characters the overlapping character at the bottom of the main character on the left should be typed first Thus the word 6 should be typed as nUy the ANSI number for p is 181 All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA and on the Macintosh computer this word is typed Option M for u Only in rare instances two overlapping characters like in y fall beneath the character on the left In such situations proper sequence is usually obvious When writing Gurmukhi it is advisable that
9. e key combinations to insert such characters with ease With this typing becomes as easy as on Macintosh Although the operating system of Windows itself does not provide the ease of accessing more than 94 characters like the Macintosh environment does something similar can however be achieved by many of the working software One of the ways the word processors and other software achieve this is by allowing one to create macros Short of other means the Character Map utility that comes with the Windows 3 1 or 95 is helpful in providing some ease Since Windows allows one to run Character Map utility simultaneously with one s working software it is easier to make use of this utility It may be convenient to keep Character Map utility running while typing Gurmukhi or Hindi fonts Editing Gurmukhi or Hindi Fonts To help edit characters that overlap over or under the character on the left such characters are assigned a small width While editing it is always tricky to get the cursor on the right side of such a character with essentially no width but it can be done if care is exercised just insert the cursor a little bit more to the right The use of cursor arrow keys is also very useful in this regard Although generally not a problem inserting the cursor on the left side of an overlap character may also require precision It may be convenient to use bigger type face size while typing the text Upon completion of the
10. equently written material Many more sequences are possible in the text from Sikh scriptures Interested individuals may contact Dr Thind for details Find Replace Find What Replace Find Replace Find Replace What With With What With What With Ap me f om Ee mu mM fs fal oR Ro AE es uu uu uU Uu 14 20 MH r EN Om U U Om eu po s yR Fy Cae wee fof u u Bre vk ry Important Information About Seemingly Duplicate Characters in the Fonts on the Gurbani CD Following table illustrates differences between double characters in the these fonts MS Windows environment le 2ShitME M lt a mo O eoo SSS EES T Se Se e All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 12 ee a 252 sda ANSI 168 Macintosh environment Character Key Shape Placement Example Pp owm YY a A SSS SSS See ee Eee ees om o a The double dundee characters with key map amp ANSI 210 Shift Option I are different only in the amount of white space on their sides The character with ANSI 210 Shift Option I has very little of white space on its sides Such a character should only be used with a space character on each side such a combination is often useful in achieving a different esthetic result A Gurbani word that requires a bar character ANSI 216 to be typed between bindee amp biharee A Gurbani wo
11. erating System and should be able to use at least some word processing programs that run under the system in question What is a True Type or PostScript Type 1 Type face True Type or PostScript Type 1 type faces are called outline type faces These consist of mathematical descriptions of the outlines of characters Such type faces can be scaled to any practical size for smooth display on the monitor or for printing on many different printers including postscript printers However these type faces can only be used with the help of a certain type of system software that is made to use these kind of type faces All of presently sold Macintosh computers can use TrueType as well as PostScript Type 1 fonts However Adobe Type Manager software is required to use PostScript Type 1 fonts On a PC computer the use of TrueType type faces requires MS Windows 3 1 or later versions of MS Windows These type faces do not work with the earlier versions of the Windows PostScript type faces however can be used with MS Windows 3 0 or later versions but require Adobe Type Manager software to display the characters on the monitor and to print on the non PostScript printers Presently a few of the DOS software do use TrueType fonts see more information regarding this under which software can use outline fonts Characteristics of Fonts on the Gurbani CD 1 These fonts have a well thought character layout These type faces are expected to be used on
12. ese fonts are not only good for writing Gurbani amp modern Gurmukhi but are also perfect for creating amp using Gurmukhi dictionaries and for flexible Find amp Replace functions Thus many of you may want to update your existing documents for use with these fonts This information is for those individuals who need to update their old documents containing Amrit Lipi fonts to those with GurbaniLipi or similar fonts However there is a point of caution The tables below ignore conversions for extra set of numbers the numbers in the natural number locations do not require any conversions Extra set of numbers are probably never used by most of individuals The documents prepared using Amrit Lipi fonts can be converted to GurbaniLipi documents or those with other similar fonts by using Find amp Replace functions of your word processor If you prepared your documents by using Microsoft Word you may use a ready made macro from Dr Thind to do the conversions with one command Otherwise use the Find amp Replace functions of your word processor and follow the sequence of replacements as outlined below To safeguard your document from possible blunders during the conversion process the following Find Replace functions should be performed on a copy of the original document Before conversion do not add your written material prepared with new fonts to your old documents before conversion As the first step change document f
13. for English as well as for Gurmukhi writing Thus they are not expected to put Panjabi Hindi labels on the keys This requires that the Key Mapping for the Gurmukhi Hindi be such that it is easier to remember the key map Every day frequent users can memorize any key map But what about those who are not frequent users Computers do not behave as typewriters A typewriter is a dumb mechanical machine that types shapes on the paper in the sequence that we type in For computers each character has a meaning far beyond a simple shape For example all the number characters have numerical values attached to those Similarly during the Spell Check and Search amp Replace procedures some characters are not considered as part of the words such as 3 lt gt _ Computers actually do not associate such values to the characters shapes but to the character s number value in the scheme as adopted by a given computer Thus for example if a character looks like a number but is not located on the appropriate number key it will not have the expected numerical value A computer font can have up to 224 working characters plus 32 control characters but only 94 of these can be allotted upper amp lower case positions on the key board A Macintosh computer using System 7 5 can have many thousands of characters in a font and so does the Windows 95 operating system Standard English alphabet characters are only 26 plus 26 capi
14. h computers Please use the information that is appropriate for your computer List of Type Faces provided on the Gurbani CD inside the FONTS folder 1 AnmolLipi type faces AnmolLipi AnmolLipiLight AnmolLipiSlim AnmolLipi Bold Anmol Lipi Thick AnmolRaised AnmolUbhri AnmolKalmi are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in display that are suitable for writing modern Punjabi where international numbers are used as a routine Classic Gurmukhi number characters are also included in these fonts as symbols 2 AmrLipi type faces AmrLipi AmrLipiLight AmrLipiSlim are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in display that are suitable for writing Punjabi where classic Gurmukhi numbers are used as a routine 3 GurbaniAkhar type faces GurbaniAkhar GurbaniAkharLight GurbaniAkharSlim amp GurbaniLipiHeavy are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in thickness that are optimized for writing text of Shree Guru Granth Sahib in the customary format i e these fonts fulfill the requirement of writing 19 lines of Gurbani text per page in the landscape page orientation and with a decent font size Most characters in these fonts have lesser width than the AnmolLipi or AmrLipi family of type faces due mainly to less of white space around the characters Additionally in the GurbaniAkhar family of type faces more of space is given to the characters that fall below the base line These fonts have been fu
15. hich are mapped according to the Ramington type writer key map that is in common use in India 1 Ease of Remembering the Gurmukhi Key Map on the Standard English Keyboard both for Macintosh and IBM compatible PCs This is not simple to achieve Making it easier on one computer often makes it difficult on the other for those characters in access of upper amp lower case For the upper amp lower case characters Dr Thind adopted a technique that he calls Phonetic Combining Pairing amp Associating The characters are mapped in a way that it makes it easier to remember their locations on the key map Dr Thind concludes from the feed back he gets that this technique is well accepted This scheme is not necessarily the most efficient for speed typing However most individuals are less concerned about designing key map to improve typing speed because most of them can type at very good speeds given any mapping Experienced typists have no problem using the shift key to type any character and do so with efficiency 2 Easy Transferability of Files between Macintosh and IBM compatible PCs This requirement limited Dr Thind to use only certain character locations for characters in access of upper amp lower case 3 Spell Checking amp Flexible Search amp Replace Functions As of now there are no Gurmukhi spell checking dictionaries available for the common user something worth achieving particularly for our future generations
16. m kR k Od k Or There is only one Adhak character in the Amrit Lipi amp Gurbani Lipi fonts For proper spell checking it is important to use the additional Adhak as provided in the GurbaniLipi when required after any Oorha character Such corrections will have to be done manually It is possible to easily search words with characters that follow another character after the Oorha In Microsoft Word 6 0 a find inquiry a will locate such words All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 11 Replace Sequences to correct the improper character sequences in the MS Windows environment Note The numbers in the Find What or Replace With columns denote the ANSI number of the respective character The replace sequences listed in the table below are for frequently written material Many more sequences are possible in the text from Sikh scriptures Interested individuals may contact Dr Thind for details Find Replace Find Replace Find Replace Find Replac What With What With What With What e With Replace Sequences to correct the improper character sequences in the Macintosh environment Note The key combinations for the specific characters are given in the parenthesis in the respective cells the letter S is for the Shift key and O is for the Option key The replace sequences listed in the table below are for fr
17. onts from Amrit Lipi font to GurbaniLipi with the Find amp Replace command Next step involves replacing each of the appropriate letters in a defined sequence as shown in the tables Make sure that you check Match Case but not Whole Words Only The font selection must be GurbaniLipi font for Find What as well as for Replace With unless after font conversion the only font in your whole document is GurbaniLipi All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 10 Replace Sequences for Amrit Lipi2 or Amrit Lipi Light to GurbaniLipi in MS Windows environment Note The numbers in the Find What or Replace With columns denote the ANSI number of the respective character Find Replace Find Replace Find Replace Find Replace What With What With What With What With 1 pe eee DENSA Ged ed BENEN Replace Sequences for Amrit Lipi M or Amrit Lipi Light M to GurbaniLipi in Macintosh environment Note The key combinations for the specific characters are given in the parenthesis in the respective cells the letter S is for the Shift key and O is for the Option key Find Replace Find Replace Find Replace Find Replace What With What With What With What With 1 7 13 19 nu n Om 2 z 1 20 IM Iu Ol O 3 Od l1 Om 3 cs 15 21 S0 ee 22 nUu coh ee SO En n U Om 17 Oy 04 O
18. process one is able to use four of these curly quote characters with just one key with the help of the shift key Thus it will be a problem using this key location for any thing else Moreover this key being a non dictionary key location can not be used for the dictionary characters 5 Issues of Numbers Only the number characters at their normal locations carry numerical values The classic Gurmukhi numbers when used at locations other that numbered keys behave only as symbols 6 Bindiwala Characters characters having dots beneath them Following Gurmukhi characters are dictionary characters H SI a 3 and can be written by combining two characters appropriate character a dot character However the BINDI will take up space under the character below the baseline making it difficult to use _ _ the bindiwala characters as designed by Dr Thind have their dots located above the base line Here is what will happen if the dots are below the baseline 5 H Y Y lt FS FE lower than the Bindies However such a combination will not be esthetically correct and will require use of two extra keys 7 lt gt Keys can only be used for non dictionary characters thus it is decided to use these keys for 98 amp in most of the fonts on the Gurbani CD Information about Transfer of Files between PC MS windows amp Macintosh Computers Dr Thind has used different names for different versions of his previous Gurmukhi
19. r clarity on the monitor is concerned and also to a good extent in printing All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA Due to internal limitations the True Type fonts often do not print or display complex characters well Accessing Characters True Type type face technology was originally designed by Apple for use on the Macintosh Microsoft also licensed amp developed TrueType for the Windows So far as the use of the type faces is concerned presently there is not much difference between these environments However it is much easier to access type face characters on the Macintosh that exceed the upper amp lower case limit 94 It is due to the availability on the Macintosh of Control Option amp Shift Option keys By pressing one or a combination of these keys a full array of 47 more characters becomes easily accessible just as with the Shift key In the Windows environment a common way to access the extra characters is to hold the Alt key in the pressed position and then type on the numeric key pad a zero 0 followed by the ANSI number of the character Some of the software for the Windows environment also provide other means of accessing characters in excess of upper amp lower case for example MS Word for Windows has a command named Insert Symbol which is very helpful in this regard Version 6 0 or 7 0 of MS Word allows one to allocat
20. rbani CD Which software can use these Fonts Once the fonts are installed into your computer s system those then become available to any of the software that runs under that system Almost all of the software designed for the Macintosh computers is capable of using different fonts The situation is very much similar with most of the software made for MS Windows A software that runs under DOS but not under Windows can not make use of these type faces for example Microsoft Word for Windows can make use of these type faces but Microsoft Word for DOS can not The reason for this is that DOS itself does not have the necessary engine to make use of TrueType type faces However version 6 0 of WordPerfect that works under DOS is capable of using TrueType fonts Also with the help of a software called True Type for DOS made by MicroLogic Software it is possible to use TrueType fonts with some word processors that work under DOS Word Perfect Microsoft Word Microsoft Works Letter Perfect and Plan Perfect Retail price for this software is around 49 US Typing Fonts Included on the Gurbani CD Assuming that the fonts are installed into your system and you are running an appropriate software To create a document using the Gurmukhi or Hindi fonts you will need to select the appropriate font from the fonts menu and its intended size from the font size menu To type the appropriate characters one needs to refer to th
21. rd that requires a bar character ANSI 216 to be typed between bindee amp biharee All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 13 Information about Key Mapping If you are interested in knowing why the key maps of the fonts on the Gurbani CD other than those inside the Ramingt_ folder are the way those are please read on Otherwise you may skip this section These fonts are expected to be used on the computers as available on the market for the English writing community Almost all such computers are sold with standard keyboards and are expected to use programs designed for English language The standard key board called QWERTY is derived from the typewriter The later was designed to slow people down from typing too fast so that the keys of the mechanical typewriter would not stick Thus this is one of the most inefficient keyboards However since most of the people are used to this key board this has become a standard for the computers as well Function Keys amp the Numeric Key Pad have been added to the typewriter key board to make it suitable for the computers Attempts by many in the industry to introduce the most efficient key board called DWARK have not been successful We are therefore left with an inefficient English key board as the standard It is assumed that most users wishing to write Panjabi amp Hindi will use the same key board
22. rther improved over GurbaniLipi fonts 4 GurbaniLipi amp GurbaniLipiLight along with their bold versions are a family of Gurmukhi fonts with variations in thickness that are optimized for writing text of Shree Guru Granth Sahib in the customary format 5 GurbaniHindi a Hindi font that is optimized for writing Gurbani in Hindi 6 GurbaniRomanizing a font optimized for romanizing Gurbani amp Gurmukhi Many bitmap fonts are also included for the Macintosh computer All of the above fonts share similar although not identical key maps GurbaniHindi has many more characters than are available in Gurmukhi fonts All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA Licensing Policy Dr Thind s Type faces are free but are licensed for use only Users are not permitted to illegally sell his type faces or to modify the outlines for making profit or for other purposes They are also not to distribute copies of his type faces to others free or otherwise The distribution should be left to Dr Thind and to individuals authorized by him as there are many advantages in doing so If you do want to give Dr Thind s fonts to others you must first obtain permission from him Assumptions Made in Preparing this Document It is assumed that the users of the fonts included on the Gurbani CD fonts have sufficient familiarity with MS Windows Operating System or Macintosh Op
23. ss for a particular purpose functionality or data integrity or protection In no event shall the author authors be liable for any damages arising out of the use or inability to use any of the software provided on the Gurbani CD A Final Note Last but not the least any good suggestions for the improvement of Dr Thind s fonts are more than welcome Please do communicate preferably in writing if you have any good suggestions This manual was re written on 1 2 98 All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA
24. tol characters However many more characters amp symbols are used in actual writing of English That is why many of the standard English fonts like Times amp Helvetica have maximum characters each However the characters as shapes available in excess of upper amp lower case in the MS Windows amp Macintosh environments are not the same in similar fonts This poses very serious problems so far as file conversions from one computer to the other are concerned Making it more difficult is the fact that MS Windows amp Macintosh environments have adopted different All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 14 character numbering schemes yes computers remember every thing by numbers However the characters available as upper amp lower case on the key board are the same in both the environments Those characters that are in excess of upper amp lower case on the key board are typed in different ways on Macintosh verses IBM compatible computers Consequently there are many important issues that need to be considered simultaneously in deciding key mapping One requirement often poses conflict with the other Thus perfection is difficult to achieve It is the balancing act that one has to consider The following criteria have been given the utmost importance for key mapping NOTE The information that follows does not refer to the fonts inside the Ramingt_ folder w
25. type faces such as Gurmukhi GurmukhiMac GurmukhiPC GurmukhiTrue GurmukhiTwo amp Guru Script etc Name Amrit Lipi was adopted in March 93 Gurbani Lipi was added to the Amrit Lipi type faces in October 93 Amrboli and Amritboli have been given to other users in September 96 First GurbaniLipi fonts were released in December 1994 Note GurbaniLipi is not same as Gurbani Lipi with dash This document is being enclosed with revised versions of GurbaniLipi Other fonts included on the Gurbani CD were developed subsequently Descriptive terms such as Light Slim amp Heavy are used to denote variations In the past the letter M was added to the names of all Amrit Lipi amp Gurbani Lipi fonts for the Macintosh as in Amrit Lipi M However any fonts released after November 1994 have identical names for the PC amp Macintosh versions of fonts Key board layout has All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA 16 evolved to the present level of perfection over time In deciding the key board layout different issues regarding the use of these on the Macintosh and the IBM compatible computers windows environment were taken into account simultaneously Files that use fonts from the Gurbani CD can be easily converted from Macintosh environment to the PC MS Windows environment and vice versa It is hoped that the information given
26. w the character at a large point size Most of present day word processors allow you to type large size of text Text at point size of 100 or above may be used for a detailed look As seen on the monitor character shapes at small sizes are somewhat of a compromise although those will be printed perfect with a good quality printer Slim versions of fonts give a clearer view of the smaller point sizes of text on the monitor than medium or thick versions of fonts Depending on your printer thinner versions of fonts will generally print smaller sizes of text sharper than thicker fonts At certain point sizes bolding of GurbaniLipi amp GurbaniLipiLight if you have installed bolder versions of these fonts may not be obvious on the monitor It is because pixels dots on the screen can not be divided into fractions Under circumstances requiring pixel fractions for bolding of the text the computer may not add a visible thickness to make bolding obvious However the text when printed with a good quality printer will be perfectly bold if there is a bold version of the font installed in the system Note if there is no installed bold version of a type face then bolding is done by the software itself and is almost always obvious on the monitor However the printed bold text in such cases is not perfect like when a bold version of the font is available Experience indicates that the PostScript Type 1 fonts seem to give better results as far as characte
27. work after all the text has been entered the text size can then be reduced to the desired level Use of Special Space Character non breaking space This paragraph describes the special space character ANSI 160 for MS Windows and Option Space for the Macintosh in the supplied and other fonts This is different All rights are reserved by the author Kulbir S Thind MD 3724 Hacienda Street San Mateo CA 94403 USA from the regular space character which is typed with the space bar A regular space character separates the words but this solid space character behaves like other characters and has width but no shape When this non breaking space character is typed it adds white space to words This kind of space always behaves as a part of the word and moves with it unlike the space character typed with the space bar This character is useful in many situations Here is a good example of its use The overlapping GurbaniLipi character will be displayed when there is a character on the left side In this case a solid space character has been used twice In this example therefore behaves as one word How are Fonts on the Gurbani CD Different from Amrit Lipi Dr Thind s Amrit Lipi fonts had a wide distribution before GurbaniLipi was made available GurbaniLipi is a special Gurmukhi font optimized for writing Guru Granth Sahib Since then other fonts included on the Gurbani CD have been developed
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