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AbyssinicaSILFeatures

TheEthiopicscriptdoesnotrequiremuchrenderingexceptforsomecombiningmarksforgeminationandvowellength.

AbyssinicaSILprovidesbothOpenTypeandGraphiterenderingsolutionsforrenderingthecombiningmarksandfor

kerningaswellasforthespecialglyphvariationsthatcanoccurfortheEthiopicscript.Thetablesbelowgivelistsofthe

GraphitefeaturesavailableinAbyssinicaSIL.

AbyssinicaSILGraphiteFeatures

New(version1.500):ToconformtotheCSSfourcharactertagrequirements,GraphitefeatureIDsforallvariantsin

AbyssinicaSILhavebeenchangedsinceversion1.100.

WhenAbyssinicaSILisusedinapplicationsthatsupportGraphite,andthatprovideanappropriateuserinterface,various

usercontrollablefontfeaturesareavailablethatallowaccesstoalternativelydesignedglyphsthatmightbepreferable

foruseinsomecontexts.InLibreOffice3.4+1thefontfeaturescanbeturnedonbychoosingthefont(ieAbyssinicaSIL),

followedbyacolon,followedbythefeatureID,andthenfollowedbythefeaturesetting.So,forexample,ifthedda

alternatesaredesired,thefontselectionwouldbeAbyssinicaSIL:cv32=1.Ifyouwishtoapplytwo(ormore)features,

youcanseparatethemwithan&.Thus,AbyssinicaSIL:cv32=1&cv20=1wouldapplyddaalternatesplusthenya

alternatesfeature.

ForXeTeX2,FeatureIDsarenotused.UsetheFeatureNameandFeaturesetting,e.g.,ifCharacterVariant32was

desired,thefontselectionwouldbe: "AbyssinicaSIL/GR:ddaalternates=Alternate"at12pt

1Downloadhere:http://www.libreoffice.org/download .

2http://tug.org/xetex/

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Thetablebelowgivesavisualrepresentationofthefeaturedcharacterglyphsinthefont.Theshadedlinesshowthe

defaultcharacter(s). Theotherlinesshowthefirstalternateand,ifavailable,thesecondalternate.

ListofGraphitefeatures

GraphiteFeatureName Featuresetting FeatureIDsforLibreOffice Charactershapes

Punctuation Ethiopicstyle AbyssinicaSIL(default) ! $ % * + / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6

7 8 9 = ?

Latin

style Abyssinica

SIL:cv01=1 !$%*+/012345

6789=?

mwaalternates(U+121F) Standard Alternate1 AbyssinicaSIL:cv04=1 1

Alternate2 AbyssinicaSIL:cv04=2 2

rwaalternate(U+122F) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv05=1 2

xoaalternate(U+1287) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default)

Alternate Abyssinica

SIL:cv17=1 xwaalternates(U+1288..U+128D) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default)

Handwriting AbyssinicaSIL:cv18=1 nwaalternate(U+1297) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default)

Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv19=1 1

nyaalternates(U+1298..U+129E) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Disconnected AbyssinicaSIL:cv20=1 3

nywaalternates(U+129F) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Disconnected AbyssinicaSIL:cv21=1 3

Cohen AbyssinicaSIL:cv21=2 2

kxwaaalternate

(U+12C3) Standard Abyssinica

SIL

(default)


zhaalternates(U+12E0..U+12E6) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Cohen AbyssinicaSIL:cv31=1 4

Chaine AbyssinicaSIL:cv31=2 5

ddaalternates(U+12F8..U+12FE) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv32=1 6

gwaaalternates(U+1313) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) SebatBet AbyssinicaSIL:cv40=1 7

AloneStokes Abyssinica

SIL:cv40=2

8

ggaalternates(U+1318..U+131E) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Disconnected AbyssinicaSIL:cv41=1 9

ggwaaalternate(U+131F) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Disconnected AbyssinicaSIL:cv42=1 9

phealternate(U+1335) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv45=1 10


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GraphiteFeatureName Featuresetting FeatureIDsforLibreOffice Charactershapes

tswaalternate(U+133F) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv46=1

fwaalternates(U+134F) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Cohen1 AbyssinicaSIL:cv48=1 1

Cohen2 AbyssinicaSIL:cv48=2 1

ryaalternate(U+1358) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default)


myaalternate(U+1359) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv50=1 2

mwialternates(U+1381) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) SebatBet AbyssinicaSIL:cv60=1 7

Leslau AbyssinicaSIL:cv60=2 11

mwealternates(U+1383) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) SebatBet AbyssinicaSIL:cv61=1 7

Leslau AbyssinicaSIL:cv61=2 11

bwealternate(U+1387) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default)


fweealternate(U+138A) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv63=1 11

fwealternate(U+138B) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv64=1 11

pwealternate(U+138F) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv65=1 11

ggwaalternates(U+2D93..U+2D96) Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) Disconnected AbyssinicaSIL:cv70=1 9

3rdform

alternates Standard Abyssinica

SIL

(default)

(U+124AU+12B2U+12C2U+1312

U+1385U+138D)


6thformalternates Standard AbyssinicaSIL(default) (U+124DU+12B5U+12C5U+1315) Alternate AbyssinicaSIL:cv85=1 7

References

Alone,JohnPhilipHerbertMackenzie.1946(Fourthedition).TheAloneStokesShortManualoftheAmharicLanguage

(withvocabularies).MacmillanandCo.Limited:London.

Chane,Marius.1907.Grammairethiopienne.Imprimeriecatholique.Beyrouth.

Cohen,Marcel.1970Secondeedition.Traitdelangueamharique(Abyssinie).Institutd'ethnologie:Paris.

Leslau,Wolf.

1966.

Ethiopians

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Praetorius,Franz.1955.AethiopischeGrammatikmitParadigmen,Litteratur,ChrestomathieundGlossar.FrederickUngar

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1Chane(p3),Cohen(table2)

2Cohen(table2)

3Gumuzlanguagepreference

4AloneStokes,Chane(p3),Cohen(table1)

5Chane(p

3)

6ArchaicOromolanguagepreference

7SebatBetlanguagepreference

8AloneStokes(insidebackcover)

9Bilenlanguagepreference

10Praetorius(p6)

11Leslau

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