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From: gmaschke@ucla.edu (George Maschke)
Subject: Persian Webfont -> Nisus Macro
Persian Webfont to Nisus Writer Macro
For Nisus Writer 5.0
Version 1.0
4 November 1996
Introduction
The Iranian daily newspaper Hamshahri is made available on the World Wide
Web by Neda Rayaneh at:
http://www.neda.net/hamshahri.
The newspaper is set in a freeware custom TrueType font called "Persian".
This Nisus Writer macro converts Persian text laid out in this font to the
standard format used by Nisus Writer and other Persian-capable Macintosh
applications.
This macro will also convert Persian web files in the shareware "NetNative"
webfont, which has the same character mapping as the "Persian" font
distributed by Hamshahri. For more information about this font, go to:
http://www.payvand.com/persian/
Known Problems
Roman text mixed with the Persian text will appear to be reversed. You can
resolve this by selecting the Roman text and applying the Reverse format to
it.
Converted text will have a hard return at the end of each line. If you want
to remove these line breaks, select a block text from which you wish to
remove them and run the Form Paragraph macro that comes with Nisus Writer.
The "narrow space" is not used. Regular spaces are used throughout.
Additional Notes
For links to my other Nisus Writer macros, visit my World Wide Web home page:
http://users.aol.com/wtlefercus
This macro is free, and may be freely distributed, but not sold for profit.
Persian Webfont -> Nisus Macro and documentation (C) 1996, 1997 by George
Maschke. All rights reserved. Your comments are welcome! Send e-mail to