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22 February 2022
Version history:
1.0, 17 February 2022
1.01, 21 February 2022
1.02, 22 February 2022
About the script
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Many typesetters use Adobe InDesign to perform page layout for PDF production. It has been observed that Adobe InDesign CC 2022 (v. 17.1) fails to render a few Linear B characters: they are 𐀀 (U+10000), 𐀈 (U+10008), 𐀉 (U+10009), 𐀊 (U+1000A), and 𐀍 (U+1000D). The problem seems to be connected with Adobe’s ‘World‘World-Ready Paragraph Composers’, which are used by default by typesetters producing PDF of Brill publications. In addition, import problems from .txt (UTF-8) format have been observed in Adobe InDesign CC 2022 (v. 17.1) involving 𐀸 (U+10038): this character was replaced on import with two __ underscore characters (U+005F)The older two Adobe Paragraph Composers: Adobe Paragraph Composer and the Adobe Single-line Paragraph Composer, render all Linear B characters correctly.
Furthermore, when importing text from either .docx or .txt (UTF-8) formats, 𐄐 (U+10110) and 𐄒 (U+10112) needed a manual application of the Noto Sans Linear B font (the underlying character codes were correct).
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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.
Typesetters must also check that 𐀸 (U+10038) is encoded and rendered correctly (check that there are no two consecutive __ underscore (U+005F) characters), and that 𐄐 (U+10110) and 𐄒 (U+10112) are rendered correctly as well – if these occur, of course.
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.
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- containing Linear B characters also contains complex-script text (this includes any bidirectional script such as Phoenician, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, etc., but also many others!), only switching to an older Adobe Paragraph Composer
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- is problematic. Typesetters should use a version of InDesign older than CC 2022, then try HarfBuzz as the
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- OpenType shaper. Note: according to John Hudson in this TypeDrawers discussion, as from InDesign CC 2022 Adobe no longer provides users with a choice to enable HarfBuzz application-wide instead of all Adobe OpenType shapers, as before, but seems to tie HarfBuzz to scripts Adobe’s own code does not support.
In such an event, Brill personnel must always contact scripts@brill.com. If Harfbuzz should also fail to solve the problem, a typesetting program other than Adobe InDesign (think LuaTeX as used by TAT Zetwerk) will probably not exhibit this bug. - Typesetters must also check that 𐄐 (U+10110, AEGEAN NUMBER TEN) and 𐄒 (U+10112, AEGEAN NUMBER THIRTY) are rendered correctly with the Noto Sans Linear B font as well – if these characters occur, of course.
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.
Bibliography
Alberto Bernabé and Eugenio R. Luján, Introducción al griego micénico. Gramática, selección de textos y glosario. 2.ª edición, corregida y aumentada (=Monografías de filología griega, 30), Zaragoza (Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza) 2020.
