LINGUIST List 8.712

Tue May 13 1997

FYI: Sealang-l, Nastaliq font for Macintosh

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  • Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong, Announcement: sealang-l revived
  • Evan L. Antworth, Nastaliq font for Macintosh

    Message 1: Announcement: sealang-l revived

    Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 22:09:07 +0700 (GMT+0700)
    From: Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong <yuinucleus.nectec.or.th>
    Subject: Announcement: sealang-l revived


    For those familiar with sealang-l which has disappeared since January due to technical problems, sealang-l is now revived and back at its old home. For those who subscribed recently to sealangsearc, your names& addresses are automatically moved to sealang-lnectec.

    I have included info about sealang-l and subscription with this announcement plus a list of current subscribers.

    ABOUT SEALANG-LJUBA

    SEALANG-L is a non-moderated mailing list originally founded by Gwyn Williams and Trin Tantsetthi in 1994, and devoted to scholarly discussion relevant to Southeast Asian languages. The core SEA languages belong to five major families: Austronesian (AN); Mon-Khmer (Austro-Asiatic; AA, including Munda); Tai-Kadai (TK); Tibeto-Burman (TB; a branch of Sino-Tibetan ST); and Hmong-Mien (HM; also known as Miao-Yao). SEALANG-L interests also extend to languages of the Sino-Tibetan family, as well as the Austronesian family, spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Indonesia, Java, and the Micronesian, Melanesian, Polynesian, and Madagascar regions.

    Languages of historical importance, particularly Pali and Sanskrit, and more recent European languages (eg. English) are included in the discussion to the extent to which they bear on SEA.

    TO SUBSCRIBE TO SEALANG-L Send a message to:

    majordomonectec.or.th

    In the body of your letter, include the line:

    subscribe sealang-l your_email_address

    TO POST MESSAGES ON SEALANG-L: Send your message to:

    sealang-lnectec.or.th

    *********************** CURRENT SUBSCRIBERS (as of May 12, 1997) ***********************

    Here are the list of current subscribers of sealang-l mailing list reestablished at NECTEC.

    >>>> who sealang-l Members of list 'sealang-l':

    Marut Buranarach <marutnectec.or.th> a.jonescet.usyd.edu.au A.Jukeslinguistics.unimelb.edu.au abramsonuconnvm.uconn.edu alankingbigfoot.com anthony.dilleranu.edu.au artfkhlchulkn.car.chula.ac.th artmmiau.ac.th bedellicu.ac.jp bgzimmermidway.uchicago.edu boylenetcom.com bremptrempt.xs4all.nl ctrandycityu.edu.hk daniel.duffyyale.edu DavidNAB_Thomassil.org delanceydarkwing.uoregon.edu dinplingpretty.anu.edu.au dkaufmanrahul.net Dorothea.Polonyilibrary.anu.edu.au dougnwg.nectec.or.th eewsywcpccux0.cityu.edu.hk egcathywpolyu.edu.hk EricSchillerlinguist.chessworks.com esareyWPOFFICE.WHITMAN.EDU fleeuwarbo-adam.nl FMGOTAMAccvax.fullerton.edu frmcrmahidol.ac.th gaijinapple.com gb661csc.albany.edu grahamtcsufresno.edu grimeshawaii.edu gwadehkucc.hku.hk jamesseasrc.th.net Jan-Olof.Svantessonling.lu.se janevishkusua.hku.hk jmwiedrullet.leidenuniv.nl jrcphling.dk kimpopehawaii.edu kitanointcul.tohoku.ac.jp kmsnyderling.upenn.edu lvhayesworldnet.att.net LVOnervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Lynn_Conversil.org mahdifhi-berlin.mpg.de mchaleAI.RL.AF.MIL Michael_Boutinsil.org nguyen2watserv1.uwaterloo.ca patchewuclink2.berkeley.edu pojanartbunyip.bhs.mq.edu.au PROTO-LANGUAGEworldnet.att.net pwdruf.rice.edu rgoetzumich.edu rscookworld.std.com sagartehess.fr schilkejohsu.EDU seapniu.edu seasrcseasrc.th.net stephen.oppenheimerpaediatrics.ox.ac.uk thepsursgusun.georgetown.edu therapanchulkn.car.chula.ac.th tsuchidatooyoo.l.u-tokyo.ac.jp w.behrem.uni-frankfurt.d400.de

    Message 2: Nastaliq font for Macintosh

    Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 11:17:56 -0500
    From: Evan L. Antworth <Evan.AntworthSIL.ORG>
    Subject: Nastaliq font for Macintosh


    Announcing Nastaliq Navees, a Nastaliq font for Macintosh QuickDraw GX.

    The Nastaliq Navees font package is now available as shareware (US $75). This package, in conjunction with Apple's QuickDraw GX graphics system and GX-based application software, allows Arabic, Urdu, and similar languages to be written using the elegant Nastaliq style of calligraphy.

    Nastaliq Navees was designed and implemented by Jonathan Kew for the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL).

    For more information about Nastaliq Navees, and to download it using your Web browser, go to this page:

    http://www.sil.org/computing/fonts/NastaliqNavees.html

    To download it using a command-line FTP client:

    FTP to ftp.sil.org and log in as anonymous. Do these commands: cd [.fonts.mac] get nastaliqnavees_sea.hqx

    To obtain it by e-mail, send a message to mailservsil.org containing the command:

    send [ftp.fonts.mac]nastaliqnavees_sea.hqx

    To order it on diskette, please contact nrsisil.org.

    - Evan Antworth <Evan.Antworthsil.org> SIL Home: <http://www.sil.org>;

    - Evan Antworth <Evan.Antworthsil.org>