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Only very few fonts support the rendering of Linear B. We have chosen Noto Sans Linear B because it has been professionally designed. Even so, there are a few software issues in typeset text; fortunately these can be remedied by the typesetter, provided that precise instructions are given. Anyone can download and use Noto Sans Linear B at no cost.
Noto Sans Linear B font sizes:
Brill 11 pt ~ Noto Sans Linear B 9¼ pt
Brill 10 pt ~ Noto Sans Linear B 8½ pt
Brill 9 pt ~ Noto Sans Linear B 8 pt
Chapter titles: Brill 16 pt (Bold) ~ Noto Sans Linear B 13½ pt
Software issue: Adobe InDesign ‘hides’ some Linear B characters
Many typesetters use Adobe InDesign to perform page layout for PDF production. It has been observed that Adobe InDesign CC 2022 fails to render a few Linear B characters: they are 𐀀 (U+10000) and 𐀍 (U+1000D), but until the whole character set has been investigated we will not know how many more, if any. The problem seems to be connected with Adobe’s ‘World-Ready Paragraph Composers’, which are the default in Brill publications.
Instruction to typesetters dealing with Linear B text
Adobe InDesign users must switch the paragraph composer applied to all paragraphs containing text in the Linear B script, even if there is just one Linear B character, to either of the older Adobe Paragraph Composers: Adobe Paragraph Composer or the Adobe Single-line Paragraph Composer.
(If such a paragraph also contains complex-script text (this includes any bidirectional script such as Phoenician, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, etc., but also many others!), this would be problematic. In such an event, contact scripts@brill.com. A typesetting program other than Adobe InDesign (think LuaTeX as used by TAT Zetwerk) will probably not exhibit this bug.)
All Brill personnel sending textual material containing Linear B text to typesetting service providers who use Adobe InDesign must send along the above instruction with each batch containing Linear B material.
