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UBC INDIC
2.4 The UBC Indic disk contains provision for transliteration of Urdu words and also for the printing of nuktā that characterises many Urdu/Perso-Arabic words appearing in languages such as Hindi, although it has not at present been adapted to the printing of the Urdu script which
differs from all other current Indian scripts in being written from the right
to the left.
2.5 of the Roman fonts available for Imagewriter printing with the Macintosh, Geneva and New York are the most elegant. Hence they have been modified in sizes 12 and 24 on the UBC Indic disk to suit the needs of an Indologist. Besides, another variety of Geneva, called Geneva NCāgari), that is identical with Geneva 12 and 24 in the shapes of individual fonts but has more space at the top and the bottom to match the height of Nāgari letters has been created. This enables one to mix Roman and Nāgarī without making the letters of one script appear out of line with those of the other. (The ideal solution would be to design a new Roman font matching the height and width of Nāgari letters, but at present I cannot invest the time this requires.) The presence of three types of Roman fonts (Geneva, New York, and Geneva N) in two sizes each, in addition to Chicago 12 and Monaco 9 that are required for system use and hence cannot be removed, reduces the free
memory space on the disk. In practice, this has not presented any serious
disadvantage. In any case, those who prefer greater free space on the start-up disk can remove the New York font and gain an additional 36K. Moreover, the problem of too little free space would not exist even potentially as Macintosh users switch increasingly to upgraded Macintoshes and to the use of double-sided start-up disks.
| SR No. | 269719 |
| Book Title | UBC indic |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Ashok Aklujkar |
| Publisher | Ashok Aklujkar |
| Publication Year | |
| Total Pages | 26 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Article |
| File Size | 2 MB |