Fonts

Lingua accesses most of its characters for the Roman, Hebrew, Greek, Cyrillic, and (optional) Arabic alphabets from standard Windows TrueType fonts. This means that you should be able to display and print languages that use these alphabets in the standard Windows typefaces. These include (in most installations): Times New Roman (a serif font), Arial and Tahoma (both sans serif fonts), and Courier New (a monospaced font). The exception is that Windows 95 does not support Hebrew (or Arabic). If using Hebrew on 95, Nota Bene automatically switches to its own Hebrew fonts, NB Ramah (classical serif style) or NB Moriah (a more modern style).

In addition, you should be able to use other Windows fonts, as long as they contain the necessary characters. Unfortunately, although there are numerous other fonts that do support non-Roman alphabets, most Windows fonts distributed with the operating system do not. If you are using a font that does not support the alphabet you are using, Windows will automatically choose the closest font that does include that alphabet (for example, if you are using a serif font that does not include Greek, and you start typing in Greek, Windows will automatically switch to another serif font to display and output those Greek characters, returning to your active Windows font when leaving Greek).

While most characters used in Lingua are accessed from the standard Windows fonts, some of Lingua's special characters (for example, Greek breathing marks and accents, Hebrew cantillations, phonetic alphabet characters, and numerous other special symbols) are not usually available in the standard Windows fonts. For these, Nota Bene uses its own fonts. In most cases these are available in both serif and sans-serif (and some even in monospaced) forms, although some characters (for example, some IPA characters, and some special symbols) are only provided in serif forms.

Additional alphabets that are part of Nota Bene's Extended Alphabets packages use special fonts supplied by Nota Bene (not Windows fonts).

The Set Font dialog in Nota Bene (accessible by clicking Format, Font or by pressing Ctrl+T) includes Lingua options:

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When you select a font, a command is inserted in the document and all text after the command will be displayed in the font you selected. By default, all text in all alphabets be in the new font. If you prefer to make the change just for the alphabet you are working in, click the By Alphabet radio button.

•	In Greek and Hebrew, certain diacritical marks can be printed in different forms, and these setting can be changed to suit your preferences. Press the Options button to open the Font-Rendering Options dialog. For more information, see Font-rendering options.

Lingua Fonts