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  1. William Overington
    I have now started the new thread. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/232309-a-thread-for-people-to-have-a-go-at-implementing-indian-languages-in-affinity-products/
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    A thread for people to have a go at implementing Indian languages in Affinity products
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    I do not know much about Indian languages, I am not a member of the Affinity team, my programming is not up to date, and I am old, but I like to think of myself as a superb diplomat and I like to think that maybe my comments and actions can be a catalyst to getting things done. So I shall try to start a new thread and hope that it will lead to progress. Whether the new thread will lead to progress will depend on how people other than me respond to this initiative. Seize the opportunity or grumble it away, time will tell.
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    The full quote is as follows. > Perhaps we need a new thread to discuss all of this from a purely languages and programming perspective and achieving progress with the thread having a culture of no .. er .. um .. well .. That is, not criticising the management. Just getting the support for (some) Indian languages implemented.
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    My suggestion is about Affinity products, about getting support for Indian languages into Affinity products. What I am suggesting is not, in my opinion, much different from the Affinity management inviting customers and potential customers to participate in the beta testing of Affinity programs. This forum has the title Feedback for the Affinity V2 Suite of Products > Discussions about features that you think will make Affinity even better. ALL suggestions about the software go in this forum
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    I decided to have a look on https://www.duolingo.com/ to find out if they have a course on Tamil. Alas, no, but they do have a course on Hindi so I have just tried it and completed the first lesson. According to https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-12/#G5526 Devanagari script is used for writing Hindi. Perhaps we need a new thread to discuss all of this from a purely languages and programming perspective and achieving progress with the thread having a culture of no .. er .. um .. well .. Maybe then there can be some progress on this and maybe some Serif staff, given that thread culture, might participate. I note, quoting from The Unicode Standard, > Additionally, a few Devanagari characters cause a change in the order of the displayed characters. So maybe what is needed is an extra array to contain characters when an Indian script is being used. So whereas English and some other languages could be regarded as using the same set of memory cells for Logical Order and Displaying Order, Indian languages could have two sets of memory cells, one each for Logical Order and for Displaying Order, and detection of an Indian script character could then use the two sets of cells. Clear parlance can make applying this easier to understand and apply. So the usual set of memory cells could be known as Logical Order Memory and normally this would also be used for Displaying. The second set of memory cells, used for displaying the whole text if and only if an Indian Script character is detected (because the text might also contain characters not specific to Indian scripts, such as the space character and some Latin script characters), could be called Special Order Memory. Maybe this would not work as such, but in my experience with projects one starts with something then somewhere along the way one finds a problem with it then one adapts and refines and one reaches a result that works well.
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    Ah, I am unfamiliar with a dotted circle being displayed. I only know it from the code charts where it is used for showing where an accent is to be placed in combinimg siuations. For example, in this code chart. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf Code charts page. https://www.unicode.org/charts/
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    Tofu glyphs being in the display, in situations that I have encountered unrelated to Indian languages, is a result of the desired glyphs not being available in the font that is being used. Oh, if I were younger and worked there I would be keen to have a go and ask if I could try to use the project to get a higher degree.
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    Nothing to do with the company's policies, what are the issues with Affinity software supporting Indian languages please? Is it to do with inputting the characters of the required text? Is it font support? Or what please?
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    Ah, I had not noticed that functionality.
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    The following linked document provides a lot of information about the way that Unicode encodes a number of Indian languages. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/chapter-12/ Other chapters are available from the following web page. https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode16.0.0/core-spec/
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    Thank you. William
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    The 'no requirement' could be regarded as at two levels. Firstly, nobody is required to produce or post anything at all. Secondly, it is the case that although I started this thread, it is not my thread, so if people choose to post pictures at whatever size then I suppose that the rules of the forum are that such is allowed as I am not allowed to require a size. The fact of the matter though is that I am trying to achieve a result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps. No requirement to be a professional artist, no requirement to be in some age group, no requirement to be able to travel, just art by people who use Affinity apps, at whatever level of ability. There is a non-zero probability of the art show happening. Perhaps not very much above a zero probability, but not actually zero probability. So I have tried to make the process of achieving the result of an art show of work produced by people using Affinity apps as straightforward as I can - it will still be a big task to achieve the result, but I am trying to remove as many obstacles as I can. I have found that giclée prints are available in many sizes yet that framed giclée prints, where the framing is provided at the printers and a framed print can be sent direct to somewhere, are available in a much smaller number of sizes. So, I specified artwork for this hoped-for art show to be at a size for which the framed print facility is available. I am thinking of natural wood frames. A collection of pictures at various levels of artistic ability each produced using one or more Affinity apps and each in a natural wood frame. Hopefully there would be still photographs and a video of the exhibition. I am not intending this to be an art show where someone sits deciding what will be accepted, in fact quite the opposite. I accept that maybe nobody will be interested, in which case, c'est la vie and this thread will just drift into the archives. Yet if you are interested, please do not let any lack of experience of art cause you to feel that you cannot participate, because you can. If you are stuck, just ask. Though I am not a professional artist, yet maybe somebody will advise. This thread just needs to get going, and if it does, then maybe the art show will happen. William
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    Please produce pictures as 400 millimetres by 300 millimetres with a 3 millimetre bleed at each edge at 300 dots per inch. Landscape orientation or Portrait orientation as you choose. Please post a png of 590 pixels by 443 pixels in the Pictures of An Art Show that may never happen thread. Any topic of your choice, provided that the picture is not unsuitable for viewing by a family audience. I will seek sponsorship for the Art Show and a gallery for it to be exhibted. I am thinking that artwork files would be sent directly to the art printer and framed giclée prints would be sent directly to the gallery by the art printer. Yes, the Art show that may never happen may never happen, but that is not a certainty at this time. William
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    This is interesting. Oxford spelling - Wikipedia William
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    Someone might have miskeyed and got "one could introducer ectangles into the design" in the document. Interestingly, in keying the above line into this forum post both miskeyed and ectangles become underlined in some red waves but introducer does not. William
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    In what spell checkers often term as "British English" it is 'organisation'. However, the -ize ending that American English uses is a retention of the earlier English form that people took with them when moved from England centuries ago, before in England it was influenced by French. The Oxford English Dictionary tends to use the -ize ending for many (ise/ize) words, but it is not a simple matter. It tends to be influenced by how the word came to be in the English language. There is something about whether it came from classical Greek. However, the Oxford English Dictionary reports usage by people, not prescribing nor proscribing usage. William
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    I think that I might have some time ago done this, but I cannot remember how. I have tried looking in the help facility but I do not know how to phrase the question. Basically I want to draw a shape using the Rectangle Tool or the Circle Tool or some other tool, convert to curves then change the stroke from a line to being as if it had been painted with a Watercolour brush of my choice. Can this be done and if so how please? I am using Version 1 of Affinity Designer. William
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    For some unknown reason, a copy and paste works sometimes but not others. The glyphs can be obtained from the Glyph Browser in Affinity Designer in the Private Use Area but that is easier said than done as the glyphs are displayed tiny. William
  21. William Overington
    I do not know if these will be of any interest to you, but there are some stand-alone flourishes available in my Sonnet Calligraphic 047 font. https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=17690#p17690 To try to make using them as straightforward as possible I have made a PDF document as a typecase. If you want to use them please install the font and set up a document to be using the Sonnet Calligraphic 047 font where you want the flourish, then copy from the PDF document and paste into your document. William typecase_Sonnet_Calligraphic_047_flourishes.pdf
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    I was just trying to suggest a layout, that was my objective. But you are right, I got it muddled. > we teach 3D printing and the Cricut machine I took that as one topic not two. Oh dear! William
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    I too am a hobbyist. To start, I think it would be a good idea to state the size of the poster. Then consider at what distance you want people to notice it, read at least one or two or a few words so that they are likely to move closer to the poster to read what is in smaller type. Please remember that eyesight varies among people and that some people are wearing glasses and if your lettering is too small then people may have a problem reading it standing by it rather than sat down reading a leaflet. If the poster is to be indoors at the library, perhaps on a noticeboard, maybe you might consider having a pile of leaflets available at the enquiry desk, then the poster could have something like There is a free leaflet available at teh reception desk with further details. What the "one or two or a few words" are in something to consider. Maybe FREE COURSE will get people to read the poster. Or maybe 3D PRINTING text text text etc etc FREE COURSE might be more effective. What information do you want the poster to convey. When I first saw your post I had never heard of a Cricut machine. Maybe a lot of people who see your poster will not have heard of it either. So maybe somewhere you need to include A Cricut machine is (then concisely say what it is, in general terms) What software are you using? William
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