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- ----- Begin READ ME file ---------------------------------------------
-
- This package contains a PostScript Type 1 font -- Vietfont(tm) -- for
- Vietnamese, together with other software that allows the use of
- Vietnamese text with any application on a Macintosh.
-
- This is freeware, and the first such free Vietnamese font for the
- Macintosh and/or PostScript. Free redistribution is encouraged. Comments
- are welcome.
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- The following instructions pertain to a Macintosh running System 7;
- installation for pre-System 7 Mac's is more intricate.
-
- Besides this READ ME file, this package contains these files, to be used
- as follows:
-
- 1/ Vietfont.bmap -- the VietFont bitmap file: open this file and copy
- the content into the System *file*. This is required by the Macintosh
- font manager as well as the Adobe Type Manager (ATM), if you also use
- the latter.
-
- 2/ Vietf -- the downloadable Vietfont font file: copy this file into the
- System *folder*. During printing, this file is downloaded into a
- PostScript printer; if you do not have a PostScript printer, you will
- need ATM, which will use this file to prepare an output file for the
- printer.
-
- 3/ uVNs(tm) -- the Vietnamese-specific keyboard resource (KCHR): copy
- this file directly into the System *file*. This KCHR is a convenient
- interface for Vietnamese text entry. The name "uVNs" combines "US" and
- "VN" because the key sequences to enter Vietnamese is grafted on top of
- the "US" keyboard, which the default KCHR in the United States. To use
- this KCHR, you'll need Keyboard Switcher (version 1.9.3) -- a control
- panel device (cdev) that permits keyboard switching; you should get a
- copy by sending the one-line message:
-
- $MACARCH GET CP/KEYBOARD-SWITCHER-193.HQX
-
- to LISTSERV@ricevm1.rice.edu.
-
- Typing Vietnamese with the "uVNs" keyboard
- ------------------------------------------
-
- The "uVNs" KCHR modifies all the <option> key combinations on the
- Apple (US) Keyboard for the entry of Vietnamese-specific characters;
- some of these become "dead keys" in order to input tone marks, much like
- the familiar Olympia typewriter keyboard.
-
- NOTE: You *must* select Vietfont (or any other font using the same
- encoding) as your font for the text to appear correctly.
-
- The Vietnamese-specific characters are listed below, with the
- corresponding <option> key combinations:
-
- Vietnamese character Key combination
- ----------------------- ------------------
- a breve <option><A>
- A breve <option><shift><A>
- a circumflex <option><S>
- A circumflex <option><shift><S>
- d bar <option><D>
- D bar <option><shift><D>
- e circumflex <option><E>
- E circumflex <option><shift><E>
- o circumflex <option><I>
- O circumflex <option><shift><I>
- o horn <option><O>
- O horn <option><shift><O>
- u horn <option><u>
- U horn <option><shift><U>
- ----------------------- ------------------
-
- where <option><shift><A> means to hold down the <option> and
- <shift> keys and typing the <A> key.
-
- To type Vietnamese characters with tone marks: type the "dead key"
- first, then the base character. Below are the tone marks and the
- corresponding "dead keys":
-
- Vietnamese tone mark Key combination
- ----------------------- ------------------
- grave <option><-> , or
- <option><shift><->
- acute <option><=> , or
- <option><shift><=>
- dotless question <option><[> , or
- <option><shift><[>
- tilde <option><]> , or
- <option><shift><]>
- dot below <option><'> , or
- <option><shift><'>
- ----------------------- ------------------
-
- For example, to enter an A circumflex tilde , type the following:
-
- <option><]> <option><shift><S>
-
- using corresponding character and key combinations shown in the two
- above tables.
-
- Technical notes
- ---------------
-
- 1) Vietfont is derived from Fontographer's DemoFont.
-
- 2) The character encoding is adapted from the Do et al's proposal
- presented at the Unicode Workshop and amended as version 1.1.
-
- Disclaimer, copyright notices
- -----------------------------
-
- Since this is free software, there is no express or implied warranty of
- any kind.
-
- Vietfont(tm) and uVNs(tm) are trademarks of TransPacific Solutions, Inc.
- Other products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of
- their respective owners.
-
- Write us
- --------
-
- Your comments on any aspect of this freeware are greatly welcomed so
- that it can be further refined. Please write to: tpacs@mcimail.com .
- Thank you, and enjoy.
-
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