![]() ![]() CodeWarrior – development environment, framework.Clozure CL – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Common Lisp applications.Aptana – an open source integrated development environment (IDE) for building Ajax web applications.AppCode – an Objective-C IDE by JetBrains for macOS and iOS development.iMessage – instant messaging between Mac, and iDevices.FaceTime – videoconferencing between Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.Fire – open source, multiprotocol IM client.Colloquy – freeware advanced IRC and SILC client.RiffWorks – guitar recording and online song collaboration softwareĬhat (text, voice, image, video) Active Adium on Mac OS X.WaveBurner – CD mastering and production software.Soundtrack Pro – post production audio editor.QuickTime Pro – pro version of QuickTime.Mainstage – program to play software synthesizers live.Apple Loops Utility – production and organisation of Apple Loops.Logic Studio – music writing studio package by Apple.Logic Express – prosumer music production by Apple.Adobe Soundbooth – music and soundtrack editing. ![]() ![]() ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303.Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video with MSP, Jitter.ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools.fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper.Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats.This is done in TextEdit with Character Viewer. The picture attached shows Lucida Grande with combining diacritics, and the second S is from a font that doesn’t have any combining diacritics and I forced an assorted diacritics from ‘American Typewriter’ and ‘Arial’ to sit on top of it. But the capability is there and it can be very misleading for many Mac users about the capabilities of the font they are using. Yet it is possible to use a font without combining diacritics and force CoreText to place combining diacritics of another font on top of its base characters! it doesn’t have a consistent result and the system normally doesn’t do it. The second case generally doesn’t happen and the missing combining diacritics are provided by the system font (Lucida Grande) along with the base character. The OS X system text engine (CoreText) is capable of positioning diacritics properly even if they don’t have the proper OpenType instructions within the font, or if they don’t even exist in the font and are borrowed from a backup system font. Get the Brill fonts, too: John has made an excellent design, and the fonts have all the Latin diacritics you might need, plus IPA, plus Greek, plus (Slavic) Cyrillic, plus symbols, real small caps, lots of punctuation marks and great OpenType features (get the documentation as well!). I hope it will prove useful for scholars, linguists, and for all those who have an occasional or a frequent need of combining diacritics. U.S._Combining_v2.1_beta.pdf (keyboard diagrams, indispensable for most users). Combining.bundle (the keyboard file including an icon) U_S_Combining_v2_1_beta_README.txt (self-explanatory) Also, I want to write a Windows keyboard as well. 7.x and now on 9.x) but I would like to write good documentation for it before releasing it to the wider public. You are free to use it, test it, decompile it, but please do not (re)distribute it. For the latter four fonts, designed by the renowned typeface developer John Hudson ( ), I developed a ‘U.S Combining’ keyboard with Ukelele. Free fonts include the CharisSIL font family ( ) and the Brill font family whose development yours truly initiated ( ) (Brill fonts: non-commercial use free). You also need a font or fonts with the right OpenType ‘intelligence’. Nisus Writer Pro 2.0.7 handles them perfectly, too. MS Word 14.4.2 (Word for Mac 2011) handles them badly. Sorin is right in saying that both the font(s) and the software used need to know how to deal with combining diacritical marks. Avestan has two sibilants which cannot otherwise be rendered (or encoded) correctly in the Latin script: Despite the reservations uttered on this list about using combining diacritical marks, there are circumstances when you have no other option but to use them: specifically, when a particular base character + diacritic(s) combination has not been defined in the Unicode Standard as a precomposed character.Īn example of a language for which you need combining diacritics is Avestan, at least in Latin transliteration, such as it appears in scholarly literature. ![]()
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