old irish gaelic truetype font synopsis of replies re irish gaelic truetype font wanted synopsis i wrote can anyone tell me where i can find an ms windows truetype font that will give me the characters used in writing irish gaelic in the old style for example in this font the letter t would look something like a c with a horizontal bar sitting on the top and the letter g would look something like an s with a horizontal bar sitting on the top many thanks to those who responded to my question unfortunately i have had no luck in actually getting such a font and a lot of people interested in geting one and so i have decided to create my own truetype font fitting that description this font is based on that used in the issue of dineen s dictionary and is typical of that found in irish books from the early part of the century this may take me some time to do in my limited spare time but i ll make it available to anyone who is interested when it is ready the responses i received are summerised below kevin donnelly caoimhin smo ac uk mentioned that michael everson everson irlearn ucd ie had developed some clo gaelach fonts for the macintosh and may be able to advise me i contacted michael and he told me that he has three fonts available for the macintosh and that he will eventually port them to the pc but that he will be charging ir about for each one pbryant ukelele gcr com mentioned that he uses two font that have a nice irish gaelic look to them these are durrow and american uncial normal i don t know where you can get these but i don t think that they have the effects i am looking for finally rhiannon netcom com rhia mentioned that the meath font included in the casady greene fluent laser fonts package is very much like what i was describing i faxed casady greene for info but got no reply so that s it i ll post these newsgroups when i make my font available colum twomey
