Catharsis Bedouin<br />
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A TrueType font created by Christian Thalmann (cinga at gmx dot<br />
net).  Distribute and use freely, but not without this readme file.<br />
If you should use it for a poster campaign, flyer, invitation or<br />
something, I'd appreciate it if you'd send me an e-mail about it.<br />
I like to see my work put to use.  =)<br />
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This particular font is more complex to use than my usual ones.  <br />
Every letter has an initial, medial and final form so as to allow<br />
fluent words with nice beginnings and ends.  Some letters have even<br />
more forms for special situations.  Finally, there are a bunch of <br />
accents and word primers/terminators for decoration.<br />
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The keyboard setup is extremely simple to learn on a Mac.  Just<br />
switch to the American keyboard setting, and all medial letter <br />
forms will lie on lowercase letter keys, all initial ones on <br />
uppercase keys, and all final ones on ALT+letter keys.  The German<br />
umlauted letters are found in their standard positions on the<br />
German or Swiss German keyboard setting, i.e. on the ' ; [ keys of<br />
the American keyboard.  A more complete inventory follows below.<br />
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On a PC, you might need to use an ASCII table or Unicode commands<br />
to type.  Or then somebody could write up a nice Java program to<br />
convert text into the fitting code?  Not my job, anyway.  :o)<br />
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IF YOU WANT TO KEEP IT SIMPLE, you can restrict yourself to <br />
initial (uppercase) and medial (lowercase) letters, using the<br />
handy terminators (on the grave accent key, ie the grave accent<br />
and ASCII tilde characters) to cap off any trailing connecting<br />
base line.  This should be easy enough to do even on a PC.<br />
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-- Christian Thalmann<br />
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Special characters inventory<br />
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(i)=initial, (m)=medial, (f)=final; S=shift, A=alt<br />
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Bedouin Character        Mac Keyboard     Correspondent Character<br />
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Bound exclamation mark   S 1              !<br />
Free exclamation mark    A 1              inverse !<br />
Bound question mark      S /              ?<br />
Free question mark       A /              divide<br />
Bound comma (f)          ,                ,<br />
Bound period (f)         .                .<br />
Bound comma (i)          S ,              <<br />
Bound period (i)         S .              ><br />
Bound inv. period (i)    A ,              less or equal<br />
Bound inv. period (f)    A .              greater or equal<br />
Free comma               S A ,            macron<br />
Free period              S A .            breve<br />
Free colon               S A ;            U acute<br />
Bound apostrophe         /                /<br />
Bound space              A <space>        non-breaking space<br />
                         S A /            inverse ?<br />
Free hyphen              -                -<br />
Bound hyphen             A -              endash<br />
Bound underscore         S -              underscore<br />
Bound ornament           S A -            emdash<br />
Slash                    S A 1            fraction<br />
Asterisk                 S 8              *<br />
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Terminator (i)           `                `<br />
Terminator (f)           S `              ascii tilde<br />
Crescent (i)             S 9              (<br />
Crescent (f)             S 0              )<br />
Scimitar (i)             A 9              ord. feminine<br />
Scimitar (f)             A 0              ord. masculine<br />
Inv. scimitar (i)        S A 9            period centered<br />
Inv. scimitar (f)        S A 0            single quote base<br />
Apostrophe (i)           A 7              paragraph<br />
                         S A q            OE ligature<br />
Apostrophe (f)           S A 7            double dagger<br />
                         S A a            A ring<br />
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Dot accent, e-sized      \                \<br />
Dot accent, a-sized      S \              bar<br />
Dot accent, u-sized      A \              guillemet left<br />
Dot accent, sub          S A \            guillemet right<br />
Triple accent, e-sized   ]                ]<br />
Triple accent, a-sized   S ]              brace right<br />
Triple accent, u-sized   A ]              quote left<br />
Triple accent, sub       S A ]            quote right<br />
Breve accent, e-sized    =                =<br />
Breve accent, a-sized    S =              +<br />
Breve accent, u-sized    A =              not equal<br />
Breve accent, sub        S A =            plus/minus<br />
Crown accent, e-sized    S A 6            fl ligature<br />
Crown accent, a-sized    S 6              ASCII circumflex<br />
Crown accent, u-sized    A 6              section<br />
Candle accent, u-sized   S A 5            fl ligature<br />
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Long s (m)               S A s            I acute<br />
Ss ligature (m)          S 5              %<br />
Ss ligature (f)          A 5              infinity<br />
Tt ligature (m)          S A t            caron<br />
F ligature (m)           S A f            I dieresis<br />
L ligature (m)           S A l            O grave<br />
C cedille (m)            A 4              cent<br />
C cedille (i)            S A 4            single guillemet right<br />
Solitary a               S A '            AE ligature<br />
Solitary i               S A [            double quote right<br />
Solitary o               A 8              bullet<br />
Solitary u               S A 8            degree<br />
Dotless i (i)            S 2              @<br />
Dotless i (m)            S A 2            currency<br />
Dotless i (f)            A 2              trademark<br />
Dotless j (i)            S 3              #<br />
Dotless j (m)            S A 3            single guillemet left<br />
Dotless j (f)            A 3              sterling<br />
Triple dot M (m)         S A m            A circumflex<br />
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