WFL8

The team and generally needs data entry options and a font that can display all what is entered. Gǝʿǝz (Ge'ez), Arabisch, Griechisch, Hebräisch, Syrisch, Altsüdarabisch, Sabaic, Georgian, Armenian, Avestan, Russian and LATIN TRANSCRIPTION.

Data imput options

Windows

Method	Characteristics	Text/Transcription	Mac/Win
keyman (prof. Bausi)	supports both ethiopic and diacritics well documented full character combination for Ethiopic needs TITUS for some symbols in diacritics Keyman does not work in Oxygen and has problems with Word. Texts needs to be entered in plain text editor	both	both
Amharic keyboard layouts	works well in all programs to enter ethiopic.	only text, transcription is done by users adding symbols in word or copypasting	both
Oxygen Code Templates	Code templates are activated and offer a list of symbols for transcription		both
Keyman Amaharic			mac
SIL Ethiopic keyboard layouts			mac
Qalam Arabia and DeuTrans_mac from corpus coranicum	can be installed as a keyboard layout, uses alt and shift to change layouts on four levels and has some precombined and combining characters, documented with layouts [here] (http://corpuscoranicum.de/pdf/QalamArabiya-3.5-Vorlagen.pdf)	both	tested on mac

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Fonts for display

The following informations have been provided by colleagues.

Font	Characteristics
Ludulfus	used for Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and other publications, should be the font to begin from for shapes and design of ethiopic
Ethiopic Unicode	widely used but commercially distributed
Titus	has support almost for all languages, not sabaic, used by TRACES.
Noto	has support for really many languages and unicode, but is a font family so each font is shipped separately
Coranica	has support for Griechischen, Hebräischen, Syrischen, Altsüdarabischen und Altäthiopischen (Ge'ez) and for some transcription

Fonts in the private use area should be omitted and are not relevant

For print we need Ludulfus and we need a serif font. the proportions of Ethiopic must be reduced in the Ludulfus Font

hp.1 modify Ludolfus as above, add other languages and normalize dimensions.