Alethi Font and Transliterator Re-launch

[Kurkistan]

Since the original thread has gone a bit downward and the up-to-date components were a bit spread out, I've decided to re-post Turos's Alethi font and my own Alethi Transliterator. The font can be used to write in the Alethi alphabet on a computer, while my program transforms a plain-text file from written English to what is essentially phonetic English, but conforms to Turos's font conventions.

How to use the font:

Font download: AlethiTS Font.zip

If your are using a non-Windows operating system and .tff fonts don't work on your computer, let Turos know what file type you need and he'll make one for ya.

As a bonus, for people who want the entire sentence to fit on one center line, Turos has included a second font that adds the center line to the space character called AlethiTS_lined.ttf

Version 2: AlethiTS Fontv2.zip

The .zip file contains a ReadMe describing the font conventions and how to start using the font.

How to use the program:

Download: AlethiTransliterator_1_9_5_2.txt

You have to change the extension from .txt to .java, since the forum hates .java files for some reason. You can run it using any java compiling program. I found this site, Turos wrote up this set of instructions, or you can just email me at kurkis[email protected] with the plaintext and a request to do it for you.

Use: Place the text you want to transliterate into a .txt file. Run the program and then type in the file name (i.e. Example.txt) when prompted. A new file called Alethi_<YourFile>.txt will be created in the same directory as the original once the program terminates.

I've also included a functionality to keep certain portions of text untouched: a <safe>[...]</safe> tag that protects the text within the tag from being touched by the transliteration aspect of the program. This way, particularly tricky words or proper names can be cordoned off and search-replaced manually. It's currently set to leave the tags in the final text, where they can be easily found and removed after manual transliteration.

Ex.
-"<safe>Wow, Xanthophyll is not necessarily the most transmorgraphical name to pronounce, is it?</safe>" becomes:

-"<safe>Wow, Xanthophyll is not necessarily the most transmorgraphical name to pronounce, is it?</safe>" as opposed to:

-".uau zanTofyll is not nesesarilee Te most transmorgrafikal neym too pronouns is it"

Due to how this is implemented, '<' (outside of the <safe> and </safe> tags) and '*' are currently reserved characters. Use them and bad things will happen.

This is still a work in progress, so I encourage feedback, though the school year may slow down the speed of my responses.

Last Updated: September 2, 2012
-Fixed 'x' at the beginning of words. Should really have caught that one. . .

Edited April 16, 2013 by Kurkistan
Double Post

[Young Bard]

Just a quick question. I only just found this, and quickly downloaded it. But there seems to be an issue with the script. The top of the script keeps cutting off. I've tried changing spacing (between lines), and font size, but it made no difference. I am using a Windows 8, with a Microsoft Office 2013 program. Any ideas?

[IsaEirias]

Just found this and a bit late to the game but I'm a total noob with programming (I do great with fixing Hardware problems but I have buddies to help with anything beyond general software issues). I tried following Turos's Guide for setting up the Transliterator with a batch file and all I get is a prompt window that opens for a fraction of a second and then closes faster than I can read any of the words. Some help or pointers on what I botched would be helpful. All I did for renaming the actual .txt file was open it from my download folder with notepad++ and save it to my desktop as a .java file of the same name so I don't think that's the issue- here' the code I have for the batch file:
 

cd C:\Users\Isa\Desktop

set path=%path%;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_60\bin

java AlethiTransliterator_1_9_5_2


Edit: Yes I realize I'm dabbling in necromancy posting here, I haven't found a more recent version of the thread and really hope the project hasn't been abandoned.

Edited December 14, 2015 by IsaEirias