"The Mac (OS X 10.2) User Note" [From TITUS with some minor editing by OTAP]
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The 10 Unicode commands for "TITUS Cyberbit Basic" users on Mac OS X
version 10.2:
- Do upgrade to version 10.2, but do "Custom Install" for additional
language support, when installing/upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2 - there
is more language support beyond the usual default installation!
- Activate your keyboard(s) in
"System Preferences/International/Input Menu" - and
activate "Character Palette", "U.S. Extended" and "Unicode Hex
Input"!
- Advanced Users: other/customized keyboards are available/customizable in XML
format - so do it on your own referring to:
http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2056.html
or look for
open source ones to come!
- Advanced Users: you can actually "compose" diacritical marked characters now
using the "U.S. Extended" keyboard: these on-the-fly "composed" characters
get "normalized" by Unicode Standard - TITUS "pre-composed"
diacritical marked characters in "Private Use Area" do not - so start to think
about doing this!
- You can install (the ".ZIP" version only please) "TITUS
Cyberbit Basic" in one of three "Fonts" folders on Mac OS X 10.2 - but
"Users/~/Library/Fonts" is best for handling later!
- Advanced Users: complex glyph rendering is implemented "in" AAT fonts, that's why
you need these new intelligent Apple Advanced Typography fonts -
WINdows fonts will display, as does "TITUS Cyberbit Basic", but more
advanced OpenType features are not yet supported (on Mac OS X 10.2 -
besides some Adobe OT features "inside" InDesign only) because OT
support needs to be implemented on system level instead to work!
- It's critical to use Unicode savvy text applications. While
in text mode with the cursor set, have a look at the "Input Menu". "U.S.
Extended" and "Unicode Hex Input" should be available; otherwise
forget about your application, it will not work! Cocoa applications will
do, but no MS Office or other MS application for Mac OS X work with Unicode! And
Adobe is restricted to some OT features "inside" Indesign only.
- A Unicode compatible web browser for MAC OS X is "OmniWeb 4.1" (by
OmniGroup) downloadable from: http://www.omnigroup.com
- More known usable text editors are Apple "TextEdit", "Mail" and
"Create" (Graphic/Layout/Web application from "Stone Studio").
- Other Unicode savvy applications are available from "Apple",
"Softmagic", "Caffeine", "Omni Group", "Stone Design" etc.
- While editing text then, beware of "tricky" font hierarchy handling-
best is to first set the default font as "TITUS Cyberbit Basic" font if
possible! Or de-install conflicting font(s) - have a look at the "utf8site"
for it! If a character doesn't show correctly, there might be a font
conflict: verify in the "utf8site" and clean up then!
- Get organized by cultivating your favorite special characters in
Apple's "Character Palette" from "Input Menu" - or if you are accustomed to the
legendary PopChar, then download/install Version "X 1.3" which will work for the
"TITUS Cyberbit Basic" font:
http://www.macility.com/downloads
- Become accustomed to studying Unicode Standard with "utf8site" at:
and/or "Unicode Checker" and/or "Unicode Font Info" available for free
from "VersionTracker"
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml.
Herbert Elbrecht | SIRoman
mailto:herbert@elbrecht.de
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