https://aflat.org/taxonomy/term/83/0 en https://aflat.org/node/264 <!--paging_filter--><div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-label">URL:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://blog.tiaan.com/webapp/spellchecker" target="_blank">https://blog.tiaan.com/webapp/spellchecker</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-description"> <div class="field-label">Description:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <!--paging_filter--><p>Free online Swahili spellchecker </p> </div> </div> </div> https://aflat.org/node/264#comments Eastern Africa Tool / Application Kiswahili spellchecker spelling Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:05:24 +0000 Guy 264 at https://aflat.org https://aflat.org/node/78 <!--paging_filter--><div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-label">URL:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://www.ideography.co.uk/library/afrolingua.html" target="_blank">https://www.ideography.co.uk/library/afrolingua.html</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-description"> <div class="field-label">Description:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <!--paging_filter--><p>This Web page provides a description of the 54-page document &quot;Typesetting African languages&quot;</p> <p></p> <p><em>Most African languages with a writing system use a modification of the Roman alphabet; the systems were often the invention of Christian missionaries, though some have been devised by government commissions since decolonisation.</p> <p>The &quot;authors&quot; of these new writing systems usually aimed to make spellings logical and consistent by providing a written sign for each consonant or vowel sound in the language, and this often led to the adoption of newly- created letterforms that are easy to write by hand, but are not available in standard fonts for typesetting. </em></p> <p><em>In writing up this report, I have aimed it at readers who do not know much about how typesetting is handled today in PC-based &quot;desktop publishing&quot; and word processing systems. I have aimed to explain the issues, and some solutions, in simple language and with a wealth of illustration. </em></p> </div> </div> </div> https://aflat.org/node/78#comments encoding spelling Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:18:29 +0000 Guy 78 at https://aflat.org