README 
Tagmukay
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Thank you for your interest in the Tagmukay font.
We hope you find it useful!

Tagmukay is a Unicode font that provides glyphs in Tifinagh and Latin 
for the Tawallammat dialect of Tamajaq. Please read the online 
documentation to see what ranges are supported. 

Tagmukay is released under the SIL Open Font License.
Tagmukay is a trademark of SIL International.
	
See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License.
See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases.


TIPS
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We cannot afford to offer no-cost technical support. The font has been tested 
and shown to work on Windows 10.

If you do find a problem, please do report it to http://software.sil.org/tagmukay/support/. 
We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in future 
versions.

Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding
of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints:

Encoding: 
The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support
Unicode text in order to access letters other than the standard alphabet.
Most Windows applications provide basic Unicode support. You will, however,
need some way of entering Unicode text into your document.

Keyboarding: 
Tagmukay does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. If you 
cannot use the built-in keyboards of the operating system, you should 
install the appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the 
language you wish to use. You will need to install the appropriate keyboard and 
input method for the characters of the language you wish to use. If you want to 
enter characters that are not supported by any system keyboard, the Keyman 
program (www.keyman.com) can be helpful on Windows systems. Also available 
for Windows is MSKLC (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx). For 
other platforms, KMFL (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/), 
XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) 
can be helpful.

If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any system keyboard, 
and to access the full Unicode range, we suggest you use gucharmap, kcharselect 
on Ubuntu or similar software. Another method of entering some symbols is 
provided by a few applications such as Adobe InDesign. They can display a glyph 
palette that shows all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter 
them by clicking on the glyph you want.

Rendering:
This font is designed to work with two advanced font technologies, 
Graphite and OpenType. To take advantage of the advanced typographic 
capabilities of this font, you must be using applications that provide an
adequate level of support for Graphite or OpenType.


INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
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If you are not sure how to install the fonts, please see:
http://scripts.sil.org/DecompressUtil for instructions on font installations on
various operating systems.


CONTACT
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For more information please visit the Tagmukay page on SIL International's 
software website: http://software.sil.org/tagmukay.
