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Typesetting the Deseret Alphabet with LaTeX and metafont

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TeX, XML, and Digital Typography (TUG 2004)

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The Deseret Alphabet was an orthographical reform for English, promoted by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) between about 1854 and 1875. An offshoot of the Pitman phonotypy reforms, the Deseret Alphabet is remembered mainly for its use of non-Roman glyphs. Though ultimately rejected, the Deseret Alphabet was used in four printed books, numerous newspaper articles, several unprinted book manuscripts, journals, meeting minutes, letters and even a gold coin, a tombstone and an early English-to-Hopi vocabulary. This paper reviews the history of the Deseret Alphabet, its Unicode implementation, fonts both metal and digital, and projects involving the typesetting of Deseret Alphabet texts.

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  1. Greek TeX Friends Group, 366, 28th October Str., GR-671 00, Xanthi, Greece

    Apostolos Syropoulos

  2. TeX Users Group, P.O. Box 2311, 97208-2311, Portland, OR, USA

    Karl Berry

  3. Département Informatique, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, CS 83818, 29238, Brest Cédex, France

    Yannis Haralambous

  4. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Parkville, Australia

    Baden Hughes

  5. Beech Stave Press and TeX Users Group, 310 Hana Road, 08817, Edison, NJ, USA

    Steven Peter

  6. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, unsw, 2052, sydney, nsw, Australia

    John Plaice

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Beesley, K.R. (2004). Typesetting the Deseret Alphabet with LaTeX and metafont . In: Syropoulos, A., Berry, K., Haralambous, Y., Hughes, B., Peter, S., Plaice, J. (eds) TeX, XML, and Digital Typography. TUG 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27773-6_7

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