[Buddha-l] Chinese ttf fonts

Mitchell Ginsberg jinavamsa at yahoo.com
Tue May 26 22:03:24 MDT 2009


Hello all, 
I see that the form I tried to represent for the Chinese word xin1 (heart, mind)
did not appear at all the way I typed it out. All sorts of question marks were 
inserted in. I had written: 
I
have been trying to find a ttf file that works on a Mac (OS 10.5.7)
that has the old small-seal forms of Chinese characters. I am
especially searching for one in which the character for xin1 is
basically a S to the right, backed by a mirror-image of the S to the
left (a smooth 2), with the two parts joined in the middle, by a form
like a curved V, having a tail that curls off to the right. 
The form I tried to represent is this (let me try to define where the Xs sit by putting 
in periods as place keepers (ah shunyata in email!!!!!) ; so the character I am looking
for is what the Xs here sketch, in other words. (I type in periods to make that appear
as a background.) 

......xxxxx........xxxxx.....
.............x........x............ 

.............x........x............
.............x........x............
......xxxxx........xxxxx.....
......x......................x.....
......x.....x........x......x.....

......x.....x........x......x.....
......xxxxx........xxxxx.....
...............x....x..............
...............x....x..............
..................x.................
...................x................
.....................xxxx.........

<worth a second try, anyway> 
All help or references about the existence and location of a ttf file with this character greatly appreciated! 
Mitchell G. 
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