RE: help with Yiddish typing/typesetting

[Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl...>]

Have Ari, who is a professional typographer, do it for you.   He did it for 
Josh's new CD and it looks great (about to come out finally).  He has the 
fonts and the programs.


Reyzl
Who is just recovering from orthroscopy


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From:  Lori Cahan-Simon [SMTP:l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org]
Sent:  Sunday, April 15, 2001 9:44 PM
To:  World music from a Jewish slant
Subject:  help with Yiddish typing/typesetting

Khaverim,

I need some help.  I want to include the Yiddish text of the song lyrics
in the booklet of my forthcoming CD, but am having a great deal of
troublefinding someone to type them for me in a format that I can send
to my graphic artist in NYC to be "flowed" onto the page.  Neither she
nor I have a word processing program for Yiddish.  If I had one, I
suppose I could do it, even though it would probably take a while.

What solutions have those of you who have included Yiddish found?  What
programs have you used successfully?  Producing the pasekh tsvey yudn
seems to be the biggest problem.

One possibility is to use a program that is not necessarily common or
"flowable" and insert the text as art, which would not necessarily match
the size of the font nor match up line by line.  Another is to put all
the Yiddish together as a separate section, but I don't think that's
conducive to learning.

Any help would be appreciated.

A dank in foroys,
Lorele


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