cherokee
A font for the Cherokee script
- Version:
- Copyright:
- Alan Stanier
- License:
- other-free
- Packaged on:
- 07/15/2016 17:44:07
- Number of files:
- 4
- Size on disk:
- 25.58 kB
The Cherokee script was designed in 1821 by Segwoya. The alphabet is essentially syllabic, only 6 characters (a e i o s u) correspond to Roman letters: the font encodes these to the corresponding roman letter. The remaining 79 characters have been arbitrarily encoded in the range 38–122; the cherokee package provides commands that map each such syllable to the appropriate character; for example, Segwoya himself would be represented \Cse\Cgwo\Cya. The font is distributed as Metafont source; it works very poorly in modern environments, and could do with expert attention (if you are interested, please contact the CTAN team for details).