Hi David, Thanks a lot for your explanations. I personally don't use any Windows and thus that was most valuable.
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 00:10:30 -0400 David Perry <hospes.pri...@verizon.net> wrote: > > There's a page on Microsoft's web site where one can get a graphic > showing the layout for each keyboard shipped with Windows; the > graphics can be copied and pasted into a document and printed for > reference. (I don't have the URL at hand but a google search will I found this one: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964651.aspx Is it the URL you meant? > > > different languages aka. fonts > Languages and fonts are different (although interconnected) issues. > A single font may support several scripts. Linux Libertine, e.g., > has Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew; Times New Roman has these and > more, including (I think) Arabic. Other fonts support only one or > two scripts. Windows comes with quite a wide selection, with more Sure, you are right. > recent versions (Vista and 7) having the best support. Note that on > Win7, fonts that are designed to support a single script are grayed > out if that script is not enabled in the Control Panel. > I would assume that in order to get for instance devanagari correctly into an editor, say texworks in Windows 7 the font which texworks uses must have devanagari support. -- Manfred -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
