MYSTlore:D'ni input
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MYSTlore has a custom MediaWiki extension to allow for directly inputting D'ni text through English / Latin alphabet transliteration, and numerals through Arabic numeral conversion. (After all, most of us presumably don't have D'ni keyboards, so transliteration is the best we've got.)
This extension uses a keyboard mapping closely related to the "old" transliteration standard (OTS), used by Cyan. The "new" standard (NTS), a fan-based alternative, was created for use with the Guild of Linguists's D'ni Script LM fan-created font and cannot be used with this extension. Cyan's D'ni font is required to view text written using this extension.
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[edit] Usage
[edit] Writing text
Our MediaWiki extension adds a new wiki markup tag, <d'ni> (or, alternatively, <D'ni>), which can be used like this:
<d'ni>.Sora b'SemtE</d'ni> , which will produce this:
.Sora b'SemtE[?]
[edit] Writing numerals
Because D'ni numerals have a higher base (25, i.e. pentovigesimal) than Arabic ones (10, i.e. decimal (Wikipedia)), you have to manually signify the start and end of a digit. MYSTlore adds the <d'ninum> tag, which uses the common rectangular bracket notation.
For example, to input the D'ni number 100[?] (625 in Arabic/decimal), as used, for instance, for a hahrtee fahrah (the rough D'ni equivalent of a century), you'd write:
<d'ninum>[1][0][0]</d'ninum>
[edit] Reading
In order to see the thusly-marked up text and numerals in actual D'ni script, rather than the transliteration itself, you must have Cyan's D'ni font. MYSTlore has not been tested with alternative D'ni fonts, and may display incorrectly in them.
As a convenience, MYSTlore/MYSTcommunity is mirroring Cyan's font, especially as it is not currently available from them for lack of resources. You can download the font here. Installation depends on your operating system:
- In Mac OS X, upon double-clicking the file, Font Book will preview and validate it for you, and offer an Install Font button. Note that Font Book's font validation may complain about "serious problems", and recommend not to use the font. Specifically, it bemoans issues with the Font Name Table. In our testing, the font works fine, but we are not responsible for any damage it may cause.
- In most versions of Windows, double-clicking the file lets you preview it in different sizes, but not install it. To install it, you will need to manually copy the font to %windir%\Fonts — that's typically C:\WINDOWS\Fonts on Windows 95, 98, ME, XP and Vista, or C:\WINNT\Fonts, but the drive letter and directory of Windows itself may vary depending on your configuration. (If you're unsure, simply click Start, Run… and put %windir%\Fonts into the box, then click OK. An Explorer window with your correct Fonts folder should open.) Drag the file from its location to the Fonts folder, then drop it, and a special installation progress bar should briefly appear.
- In Ubuntu 7 (and probably other versions of linux), download the file to a folder you can remember and navigate to. Open a terminal and switch users to root (command: su root). Go to /usr/share/fonts/truetype and create a directory (command: mkdir "directory name") called Dni or whatever you wish. Then navigate back to the file, and copy it to the directory you made (command in this case: cp Dn______.TTF /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Dni). Log out and log back in. The font should be installed.
You will most likely need to relaunch your browser (as well as other applications you intend to use the font with) for it to become available. After that, you should see the font example above as actual D'ni script, rendered using the D'ni font you just installed.
