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"Gabrial Ator"
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Windows TrueType Font for Modern Assyrian Script
Version 1.0
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By Timothy R. Erickson
Copyright © 1997 Summer Institute of Linguistics
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Gabrial Ator is a TrueType font for use in Microsoft Windows
programs.  This document is a description of the font's
design and character layout.

Though this font may be used as-is for entering text in a
Windows word processor, it is probably best used with a
rendering system such as SIL's "SDF-based Rendering Engine",
which is, at the time of this writing, still under
development and will be supported by future releases of
SIL's Shoebox database and linguistic processing program and
by SIL's LinguaLinks system.  (For more information about
SIL and SIL software, see <http://www.sil.org>.)

Though Gabrial Ator is copyrighted, you may freely use and
distribute it, as long as you 1) do not alter the font in
any way, and 2) do not charge others for the font in any way
other than perhaps a modest fee for diskette and mailing.

The author makes no guarantee as to the useability of this
font for any particular purpose.  If you find it helpful to
you, fine.  If the font does not meet your needs, then look
for another font to use, and accept this author's apologies.

The author of Gabrial Ator is an non-Assyrian who has never
designed a font before, and who has had only a few weeks'
exposure to the Assyrian script.  Please keep this in mind
when critiquing the font.

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Layout of the font:

Basically, the positions 'A'-'Z' and 'a'-'r' are occupied by
the basic consonants of the Alap-Bet.  Then positions
's'-'x' are the basic diacritics of the script.  'y' is an
extender for the baseline, and 'z' is the final flair needed
on many consonants when they are word-final.

Then the characters from 192 - 255 are "ligatures", i.e.
combinations of consonants and diacritics (or diacritics
with each other) which do not come out well using just the
normal characters above.

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Zqapa:  's'
        With plural marker: 250

Ptakha: 't'
        With softener: 201

Zlama qeshya: 'u'
        With softener: 213

Zlama pshiqa: 'v'
        With softener: 228

Silencer: '/'

Plural marker: 'x'
         Higher version: 251
         For taw-alaph: 252

Softener: 'w'

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Alap:   Form for use after lamadh: 'A'
        Final form: 'B'
        Non-final form: 'C'
        With zqapa: 192
        With ptakha: 202
        (See also below under Taw)

Beth:   'D'

Gamal:  Initial form: 'E'
        Non-initial form: 'F'
        Non-initial with softener: 237
        Non-initial with softener and ptakha: 203
        Non-initial with zlama qeshya: 214
        Non-initial with softener and zlama qeshya: 215
        Non-initial with zlama pshiqa: 229
        Initial with silencer: 243
        Non-initial with silencer: 244

Jamal:  Initial form: 'G'
        Non-initial form: 'H'
        Initial with ptakha: 204
        Non-initial with ptakha: 205
        Initial with zlama qeshya: 217
        Non-initial with zlama qeshya: 218
        Initial with zlama pshiqa: 230
        Non-initial with zlama pshiqa: 231

Dalath: 'I'
        With ptakha: 255 + 201
        With zlama qeshya: 219
        With zlama pshiqa: 232
        With softener: 238

He:     'K'
        Final form (optional): 'J'
        With ptakha: 206
        With zlama qeshya: 220
        With zlama pshiqa: 233
        With dot above: 253

Waw:    'L'
        With rwakha: 'M'
        With rwatsa: 'N'

Zayn:   'O'
        With ptakha: 207
        With zlama qeshya: 221
        With zlama pshiqa: 234

Kheth:  'P'

Teth:   'Q'

Yudh:   'R'
        With 'i' mark: 'S'

Kap:    Isolate form: 'T'
        Final form: 'U'
        Normal form: 'V'

Chap:   Isolate form: 'W'
        Final form: 'X'
        Normal form: 'Y'
        With ptakha: 208
        With zlama qeshya: 222
        With zlama pshiqa: 235
        Final form with softener: 239

Lamadh: 'Z'
        With zqapa: 193
        With ptakha: 209
        With silencer: 245

Mim:    Final form: 'a'
        Normal form: 'b'
        With dot above: 254

Nun:    Isolate form: 'c'
        Final form: 'd'
        Normal form: 'e'

Semkath: 'f'

E:      Initial form: 'g'
        Non-initial form: 'h'

Pe:     'i'
        With zqapa: 194

We:     'j'

Sadhe:  'k'
        With ptakha: 210
        With zlama qeshya: 223
        With zlama pshiqa: 236

Qop:    'l' (lower-case L)

Rish:   'm'
        With zqapa: 195
        With ptakha: 211
        With plural marker: 255 + 'x'
        With plural marker and zqapa: 255 + 250

Shin:   'n'

Zhin:   'o'
        With zqapa: 196

Taw:    'p'
        With silencer: 246
        Isolate with alap: 'q'
        Final with alap: 'r'
        Isolate with zqapa and alap: 197
        Final with zqapa and alap: 198
        Isolate with softener and alap: 240
        Final with softener and alap: 241
        Isolate with softener, zqapa and alap: 199
        Final with softener, zqapa and alap: 200
        Isolate with ptakha and alap: 212
        Isolate with zlama qeshya and alap: 224
        Final with zlama qeshya and alap: 225
        Isolate with softener, zlama qeshya and alap: 226
        Final with softener, zlama qeshya and alap: 227

Baseline extender:
        Medium: 'y'
        Short: 156

Word-final flourish:
        Normal: 'z'
        Alternate: 159

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Browse through the font to see the punctuation, symbols and
numerals I have included.

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I hope you enjoy this my small donation to the Assyrian
community worldwide.  God bless you all and be near to you!

--Timothy [Timm] Erickson

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