Re: Re: YELM RUNE

From: Roderick and Ellen Robertson <rjremr_at_...>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 23:17:37 -0700


> On 5/26/00 at 10:29 PM Alex Ferguson wrote:
> >It'll either be the same, or very similar. Glorious Reascent
> >of Yelm -- uh-oh, am I allowed to mention sources that Scary
> >on this list? <g> -- gives the Yelm rune as pretty much a Fire/
> >Sky plus some rays, so it may be that one. I don't have the
> >'Hero wars' font, so it might be 'd' in that, but it's not
> >'d' in the Core Runes -- if any of those, it would have to have
> >been 'j'. (Jelm being the Norse word for Yelm, obviously. <g>)
>
> I thought it might be the "d" in either of the Rune fonts, but that's the
> Darkness rune in the Core Fonts set and the Animism symbol (two
> intersecting pointy brackets with a stick down the middle) in the Hero War
> Runes font.

It's "d" in the "Glorantha Font" - which may be why it didn't print correctly. If the printer doesn't have the correct font, the layout/print program will use a default one like Ariel or Times Roman. So I assume that one rune was in the Glorantha Font instead of the Core Font and so was not included in the set of fonts sent to the printer. The Omega problem seems to be related to the fact that the layout and pre-print was done on a Mac, and the printer used a PC. Usually no problem, but...

Roderick

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