- #Amharic fonts for windows 10 how to#
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These keys help to select the right word from displayed options.
"Enter" or "Space" key is used frequently when Amharic words are typed. To those who developed Amharic typing/keyboarding system. If you don't mind, I'll post tomorrow afternoon, after I've spoken to my favorite Amharic translator/pastor, and let you know whether or not I was able to find a clear answer for you.Suggestion on enhancement of typing Amharic words However, while I'm glad that you're appreciative, all of this holy book talk is making me feel uncharacteristically out of my depth here - if you were working on forms for the state, I'd be on solid ground.
#Amharic fonts for windows 10 how to#
(I suppose I mean "tanak" here, but I think I've forgotten how to spell it.) It certainly has all the punctuation you would need for an Amharic-language bible.
#Amharic fonts for windows 10 license#
Restrictions on embedding in the license granted by Linguist Software, you might want to go with AmharicU.
#Amharic fonts for windows 10 full#
I've also worked with Monotype's "Geez Book" before, which might suit your needs, but I don't know if it has a full selection of typesetting tools (a fullwidth space, enough variation in punctuation to typeset a bible, and so on). SIL's font is free and usually works in Adobe apps. These aren't good reasons for you to choose it, I think, but it's perfectly serviceable. I use GF Zemen Unicode almost exclusively, not because I think it's beautiful or well-made, but because a) it works with my main translator's typing software, and b) it works in Adobe products. Since you're doing a holy book, you probably want someone who's familiar with the tradition of religious books in Ethiopia, no? However, the truly reliable way to get really well-set Ethiopic type is to have someone who is competent in the language do the typesetting. If you can't find a really good one, I can't recommend one I think that Bitstream made one back in the day, and you might try looking at SIL.
#Amharic fonts for windows 10 professional#
Try to separate "the Amharic equivalent of Times or Courier" into two chunks: "The Ethiopic type style suitable to a holy book" and "the Ethiopic font that is of this style, and is a well-made font." I'm not telling you that you don't need a professional font as with Latin-script fonts, the kerning/letterspacing/glyphset/etc. So, in essence, the plain-vanilla newsreader font for Ethiopic languages - their Courier - is actually an appropriate face for setting a Bible. Related to illuminated manuscripts from nine hundred years ago. GF Zemen is obviously closely related to ancient Ge'ez manuscripts in a way that Courier is obviously Five hundred years separate the Gutenberg Bible and Courier far more time separates early Ge'ez manuscripts and fonts like GF Zemen, but there's much less variance in the style of the face. I'm genuinely not trying to be smarmy here I'm just pointing out that the assumptions you are making w/r/t typeface and Bible-appropriateness are not entirely accurate when considering Amharic text. (Most? you might have found an ugly ultra-modern one.) That calligraphic style used in the design of those fonts is directly descended from the actual handwritten Ge'ez manuscripts.
Remember those free Ge'ez fonts you downloaded? Note the calligraphic style that is common to all of them. Why is that? Well, over the last two thousand or so years, there have been around 70 different languages written in the Ge'ez script, which we script-jockeys tend to call "Ethiopic." The script is called Ge'ez because the language is also called Ge'ez it's the liturgical language of more than one Ethiopian church. You'll probably have an easier time if you search for Ge'ez fonts, and Ethiopic fonts, as well.
Well, you know what? Go and download a few free Amharic fonts. typeset the Bible in the Amharic equivalent of Times or Courier