[KS] Middle Korean fonts

[Robert Winstanley-Chesters]

Hello Professor Lewis,
You might remember from your days as Editor in Chief of the European Journal of Korean Studies that we solved the Middle Korean issue by using HWP files to produce the characters and diacritics, then sending images of them to the printer and proofer who could adjust them into Noto (and for EJKS at this time Noto Serif), or a home made version of Batang, using In Design the proofing/printing software. As far as I am aware Unicode doesn't support Middle Korean characters (or at least it didn't). You could suggest this to your publisher, but it depends whether their production/proofing team use In Design or some other publishing platform. I can find the thread where I discussed this with the printer/proofer if you like. At the time it was BBR Design who had worked on EJKS for years and were quite knowledgeable with Korean text.

Yours
Robert

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Dear All,

At the risk of irritating people with a recurring question, I venture to send this today.

I'm using MS Microsoft. I am trying to set Middle Korean with a publisher, which is a very rare thing for me to do. They use Batang for all Korean, but Batang doesn't seem to produce Middle Korean. I can use the world's tiniest soft keyboard with IME input for Middle Korean, and it produces what I want, but in Malgun Gothic.

Is this as good as it gets?

Yours,

Jay Lewis


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