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Why I love PageStream!

While I realize that my usages don't exactly represent a
broad audience they 
do serve to demonstrate how incredibly flexible PageStream
is. I recently 
started studying Sumerian and of course one of the first
things I wanted to 
do was typeset it. Obtaining a font is working out to be an
issue unto 
itself, but even with a font how on earth would I enter the
signs?

Although using ctrl-d and typing in the unicode sequence
works that is not a 
very functional answer. Enter PageStream scripting with
Python. An elementary 
input box is trivial where signs are entered by name, hit
return and the 
signs are inserted at the current cursor position.

Very simple to write -- more time was spent taking the
unicode mapping 
information and massaging it into a Python dictionary than
in constructing 24 
lines of code. Granted there are some additional niceties I
want to add that 
will take more time to develop, but I can already typeset
Sumerian in 
cuneiform.

Tim Doty


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Tim Doty schreef:
> Why I love PageStream!
>
> While I realize that my usages don't exactly represent
a broad audience they 
> do serve to demonstrate how incredibly flexible
PageStream is. I recently 
> started studying Sumerian and of course one of the
first things I wanted to 
> do was typeset it. Obtaining a font is working out to
be an issue unto 
> itself, but even with a font how on earth would I enter
the signs?
>
> Although using ctrl-d and typing in the unicode
sequence works that is not a 
> very functional answer. Enter PageStream scripting with
Python. An elementary 
> input box is trivial where signs are entered by name,
hit return and the 
> signs are inserted at the current cursor position.
>
> Very simple to write -- more time was spent taking the
unicode mapping 
> information and massaging it into a Python dictionary
than in constructing 24 
> lines of code. Granted there are some additional
niceties I want to add that 
> will take more time to develop, but I can already
typeset Sumerian in 
> cuneiform.
>
> Tim Doty
>   

So Tim, you found your god of writing in PGS and Nabu
(Nabukadnezar).
(See Mesopotamia on Wikipedia (English version), I was
looking for 
Sumerian language)

A very interesting way of using PGS!!

Theo


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On Saturday 03 March 2007 10:36, Theo Zweers wrote:
> Tim Doty schreef:
[snip wrote simple script for inputing Sumerian cuneiform]

> So Tim, you found your god of writing in PGS and Nabu
(Nabukadnezar).
> (See Mesopotamia on Wikipedia (English version), I was
looking for
> Sumerian language)

An interesting way of putting it, and yes. The tweaking is
more work and I 
found a broken script command :(  [yes, bug report
submitted]

> A very interesting way of using PGS!!

As a long time lover of scripts and languages it warms the
cockles of my heart 
to be able to display and edit cuneiform. Now back to
hitting the books, 
which is what I should be doing rather than playing with PgS
scripting 

Tim Doty


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