I previously saw a link to ‘adhesiontext’ on Typographica, but I still would like to state that I think that this sure is one fabulous dummy text resource.. Thank you.. ( Maybe you should add this to the brandnew ‘Typowiki’, as well.? )

You’re welcome! Thanks for the tip on the Typowiki. I’ve added adhesiontext and a couple of other Text Tools. (just hope I made it the right way…)

Just wanted to say congratulations… It’s wonderful! I’m glad you’re making the most out of the Reading experience. I heard about it from Dan and I had instant flashbacks to the first sketches :)

Thanks Nadine, nice to hear from you. In relation to my (project of a) typeface, gladly it has changed a lot since that time ;)

Bro, this is excellent, what a great idea!

It will come in handy…

kris.

Miguel,

that’s some really nice work! The greek especially ; )

It’s May so you guys have some tough months ahead of you,
good luck to you all with your projects!

Natasha

Thank you guys!

Kris: Great ideas are generally sparked by simple needs…

Natasha: We’re rapidly getting aware of that…

Actually I was refering to my own sketches :)

Is it possible for your program to support Arabic?

Wouldn’t it be great if fontlab had a window where you can input large amounts of text and maybe use a program like yours to create dummy text based on existing glyphs?

hmm…

I’m glad you touch that subject. It crossed my mind while I was implementing the Greek.
Actually it would be very interesting and challenging to add a right-to-left script to adhesiontext.

I believe that the way adhesiontext is setup allows me to add any Latin language, like German or Italian for example (and maybe even a central-European, like Czech), within a couple of hours.
A non-Latin LTR script would need a bit more time, but surely not more than a day’s work.
A RTL script is a bit more tricky, but still doable. I can’t predict how long that would take.

Nevertheless, if you can provide me two Arabic word-lists (one in Unicode and the other in Arabic-Windows-1256) and a string of the characters (in Unicode) to be included in the “Insert characters” palette, I can try to prepare an Arabic version of adhesiontext for you to test.

As for the Fontlab window, I think that Brook was trying to do something like that with Python.

Yes - I was working on a script that takes your current character set and creates a custom dictionary from a dict file you select. It doesn’t spit out a nice psuedo paragraph like adhesiontext does though, but the aim was to do something similar eventually.

mike, great work, one thing though: on firefox (1.03, windows 2000), the layout is kinda messed up. I get a “insert characters” box directly over the “get text” “basic punctuation” and “capitalize words” fields, which makes it pretty much unusable.
On IE, those boxes render at the very bottom of the page. I kind of suspect they should be to the right but without overlapping anything. I’d be happy to póst screenshots if needed.

Thanks for letting me know. Yes I would appreciate if you could e-mail me some screenshots
—> miguelsousa (at) go (dot) online (dot) pt

I made a few tests on different systems (including IE 6.0 on WinXP) before making the site public, but browsers have so many bugs that it’s difficult to please every single one of them.