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Quoth · 05-10-2021, 09:23 AM

Why do I want a font with no dot on the i for ebooks?
Because traditionally Irish used no dot on the i, because some are í. Additionally some letters had a dot to indicated hard/soft/accent which are now shown by suffix of an h: bh, dh, gh, mh, etc.
Georgia and some other fonts do have a dotless i: ı, but that's only good for paper as not in the i position. I want one that has ı for the i position to allow fall back to i rather than [] in the text!
Paper is no problem, because you include the fonts in the PDF and that's exactly what is used.
I suspect old Scottish is the same as it has ì and í in the Gaelic. Irish only has the áéíóú as vowel accents, so those are not a problem.
Some old Irish words lost the dots before dots were changed to an added h, so the name Badb is really Badhbh, though that might not help people much. It might be close to Baeyf or Baeyv for an English speaker.

It's also good if the a, g, n and & etc are in the older Gaelic styles. Both modern Gaelic (and old stuff) and Hebrew use a symbol like a cross between a 1 and 7 for the & symbol which in English is Et and used to be listed after z. The Irish is closer to a 7 than a 1 and the Hebrew & is actually their letter Vav.

05-10-2021, 09:23 AM	#1
Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,446 Karma: 107078855 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	free font with no dot on i Why do I want a font with no dot on the i for ebooks? Because traditionally Irish used no dot on the i, because some are í. Additionally some letters had a dot to indicated hard/soft/accent which are now shown by suffix of an h: bh, dh, gh, mh, etc. Georgia and some other fonts do have a dotless i: ı, but that's only good for paper as not in the i position. I want one that has ı for the i position to allow fall back to i rather than [] in the text! Paper is no problem, because you include the fonts in the PDF and that's exactly what is used. I suspect old Scottish is the same as it has ì and í in the Gaelic. Irish only has the áéíóú as vowel accents, so those are not a problem. Some old Irish words lost the dots before dots were changed to an added h, so the name Badb is really Badhbh, though that might not help people much. It might be close to Baeyf or Baeyv for an English speaker. It's also good if the a, g, n and & etc are in the older Gaelic styles. Both modern Gaelic (and old stuff) and Hebrew use a symbol like a cross between a 1 and 7 for the & symbol which in English is Et and used to be listed after z. The Irish is closer to a 7 than a 1 and the Hebrew & is actually their letter Vav.