This is http://www.yoga4d.com/hints5.txt also 
http://www.yoga6d.com/HINTS5.TXT
Written by Aristo Tacoma alias
Stein Reusch atiroal@yoga6d.com March 10, 2009.
License for further distribution of this text
as a whole is granted at: 
http://www.yoga4d.com/cfdl.txt on the premise
that http://www.yoga4d.com/cfdl.txt is displayed
first
 
WELCOME EVEN MORE AMHARIC TO THE COMPUTER WORLD!!!
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This a preliminary text, HINTS5.TXT, to the
the series of three -- AMH1, AMH2, AMH3 -- viewable 
with the :AM IN command inside minigj2 when you have
set java.policy right and also got the programs into
the standard folder [[see beginning lines of
http://www.yoga6d.com/AM.TXT for which files these are,
and see the frontcover of http://www.yoga6d.com for
where your java.policy file is, and see
http://www.yoga6d.com/minigj2.htm for a link to
the java-dot-policy.txt file where I have prepared
the extra lines you must put into the java.policy file
on your computer to enable full use of the
http://www.yoga6d.com/minigj2.htm with your local harddisk.]]
Translation approach between 7-bit latin ascii and amharic made
by Aristo Tacoma. Font freshly drawn by this author.  
 
  IMPORTANT COMMENT ON TIMING -- READ FIRST:
    THIS TEXT CONCERNS THE PROGRAMMING NOW
    TAKING PLACE IN MARCH 2009 AND WILL BE
    DOCUMENTATION FOR ITS COMPLETION WHICH
    WILL HAPPEN ANYTIME BETWEEN APRIL 2009
    AND JULY 2009. ANY OF THE FILES REFERRED
    TO IN THE FOLLOWING WILL BE AVAILABLE
    SOON, BUT NOT BEFORE SOME WEEKS OR
    MONTHS AFTER THE RELEASE OF THIS TEXT.
    THE BRIGDE2 IS MADE SO THAT IT CAN RUN
    THE ENTIRE SERIES GJ2NEW1..GJ2NEW8
    AND THESE PROGRAMS (THIS CONCERNS GJ2NEW7)
    ARE NOT ENTIRELY READY AT THE MOMENT
    OF WRITING BUT WILL BE SO MID-2009
    AND THEN AVAILABLE ALWAYS, FOR ALL,
    FOR FREE, GIVEN ADHERENCE TO THE
    RESPECTFUL LIBERTY-ORIENTED LICENSE
    http://www.yoga4d.com/cfdl.txt
        *   *   *   *   *  *
 
 
Scroll down (PgDn or use arrows or lineshifts) to
see real Amharic graphics when you view this with
my Amharic editor/browser which comes up with the
command :AM IN when you use the bridge2 (also
called the minigj2), as at 
http://www.yoga6d.com/minigj2.htm, and open this
text by pressing function key F1 and then type HINTS5
-- supposing you have in fact got the whole lot
of the files as indicated in the first lines of
the AM.TXT, and put them properly to the standard
folder. Use function key F9 to get Amharic (Amarigna,
the Ge'ez or GEEZ font viewing mode, where you
can read the deliciously freshly orginally drawn
font -- with a unique emphasis on optimism and
similarities to dance.
 
[[Technical notes -- I use double hard brackets
occasionally inside some texts to indicate that
you can safely ignore the comments on first-time
reading. If you open it locally in the offline Firth 
Lisa GJ2 environment, you use the
command :AM IN instead. That, is, provided that
you have got hold of, and downloaded, and put to
the standard folder, the following open source
files I have made:
  http://www.yoga6d.com/AM.TXT
         www.yoga6d.com/AMFNTMAK.TXT
(the above is my fontmaker program)
         www.yoga6d.com/AMFONT1.TXT
         www.yoga6d.com/AMFONT2.TXT
(the second is a backup of the first in case
you modify it)
         www.yoga6d.com/AMH1.TXT
         www.yoga6d.com/AMH2.TXT
         www.yoga6d.com/AMH3.TXT
and this text,
         www.yoga6d.com/HINTS5.TXT
which exists in both upper and lowercase
on the site, and you must always use
uppercase when you use the minigj2 editors
on your local files.
  The http:// signifies what type of computer
network it is about -- this is the signature
of the classic World Wide Web Internet and,
for machines dedicated to it, normally can
be omitted. The www. however should be
included for reasons of preciseness when
one modifies the java.policy to allow
the minigj2 emulation of the Lisa language
to access files both ways on the designated
folder on your local harddisk -- this I
describes, amidst philosophical, religious,
psychological, sexual and economical
propositions, on the long long front page
of www.yoga6d.com and www.yoga4d.com (these
cover pages are identical, the content of
the sites are overlapping but has different
essences.]]
 
I am much obliged to the excellence of 
the free material [[which can be viewed 
in the Mozilla-1.3 with the much 
enhanced PDF viewer option that I
specify in the menues in bridge2 (not the
simplest PDF viewer, but the enhanced one)]]
which can be acquired from:
 www.fsi-language-courses.com
My sketching of the Amharic font is very
inspired by their works.
 
The AM.TXT, the editor I have written in
my own programming language Lisa Gj2 as
an extension of my editor B9,
is the same as the following:
  http://www.yoga6d.com/GJ2NEW7.TXT
 
AM1, AMH2 and AMH3 contains real example 
texts in Amharic. It can be easily viewed 
with actual Amaharic characters 
(Amharic being the main language of 
Ethiopia, and the hundreds of Amharic characters 
being used for several African languages), 
if you [[given that you have changed java.policy
as specified in the text java-dot-policy.txt on
http://www.yoga6d.com/minigj2.htm and also have
got the whole set of files to local harddisk]]
go into the minigj2 and type
  :AM IN
[[The program AM (really, AM.TXT) is the same as 
GJ2NEW7.TXT, and I have made it open source 
at http://www.yoga6d.com/GJ2NEW7.TXT (must be
uppercase when you get it from the net).]]
  Inside the Amharic editor, which is a variation
of my B9 editor so as to view a much enlarged
amount of fonts [[which I have drawn in my
own program MOREFONT, by the way, in an extended
version store at www.yoga6d.com/AMFNTMAK.TXT --
and with which you can draw other African and
nonafrican characters as you please, especially
if you suitably modify the editor I have written
in Lisa GJ2 (cfr the yoga4d.com/cfdl.txt license
which says that such modifications are okay of
my programs if you bring alongside my original
program and the acknowledgements)]] -- inside this
editor you press F1 to open this text. You must
select YES that it is from the net, rather
than from your local harddrive, and then
type in the name AMH1. Since you don't put in any
dots or www. thingies, it will assume it is at
www.yoga6d.com/AMH1.TXT. Or type AMH2, or
AMH3, or, to see this text, HINTS5. Again,
pls remember to avoid typing .TXT when you
are inside the editor, for this is the only
storage format of the texts themselves and
so consistently used. Always have backups
as the editor obliges your command of saving
without checking for existence of earlier
files of same name first. This, I have found,
increases the sense of empowerment of the
writer at the computer to do good and
righteous things -- that the computer isn't
babysitting the individual interactor, but
obeying you on such fairly easy things to
get right if you have a well-trained, healthy
mind, untouched by severe drugs.
  [[If you have fixed on java.policy you can
specify any website address whatsoever insofar
as it completes with a .txt file of this sort,
which follows the approach I have laid out
in this file. You will then type something
like www.whatever.com/foldername/amharic1
and when you do type this in, the editor
will add http:// up front itself, and you
must write the upper and lowercase correctly
as the website-maker wants it. You can also
use this, of course, to view other .txt files
than Amharic ones, but they must be .txt.
That is to say, when you type in
www.whatever.com/foldername/amharic1
it will try to open 
http://www.whatever.com/foldername/amharic1.txt
and nothing else. It MUST have the .txt on it.
This is due to the fact that I don't want
too much functionality associated with
my online programs, but keep everything
restrained to that which is purely functional
and not welcoming of those who make malware
or the bad form of hacking. The sites
www.yoga4d.com and www.yoga6d.com discuss
safety issues explicitly and honestly and,
I think, without over-statements in any
direction, and carefully, pls, read it all
if you like to make full use of the content
on my sites, which is made in a benevolent
spirit to encourage all to do enlightened
things, and go beyond fundamentalist-limiting
laws and encourage prosperity and the right
type of meaningful liberty also on girl-gay
issues, on issues of faith and worldview
thinking and personal meditation, for all.]]
  You will then see my normal playful-funny
("arrhythmic" as I call it) B9 font showing this
text in English 7-bit characters, but scrolling
down you will find real Amharic, if the
computer is correctly configured in all ways. 
[[This can happen also offline in the Firth Lisa
OS which I have coherently woven together
to support my entirely new programming language,
utilizing, for background disk access and
screen access, honest open source GNU GPL work
-- both Allegro and www.freedos.org work and
hundreds of other elements, all tested
on numerous standard PCs.]]
 
You can then, using the function key F9 view
the 7-bit normal ascii characters you have
just typed as Amharic -- 7-bit ascii
characters are the international standard [[used
inside all good programming languages and all
good scripting languages incl HTML]].
  Amharic conveys the image of unruly
rastafari hair and fun dance with
long slender limbs like the Miss Ethiopia
girls and healthy longlegged skinniness of
the original Punt, which has an entirely more
substantial religiousness than either Egyptian
or Arabic or Persian or Italian/Roman-Christian
(St Paul) approaches, summed up in Marley's One 
Love and his pro-judaist Lion of Judah understanding
of the coptic trinity. This is a philosophy of
flow and love which doesn't have greedy
self-centered anger against judism as its
center, as islam and petty antisexual forms
of christianity does. Anyway, that's how I see it.
 
Back to technicalities here. By pressing CTR-P you can
save the graphic output to a sequence of images.
If you haven't fixed on java.policy, then these
images will have to be stored e.g. by the use
of a screen-capture program like Gimp, and
saved as 256-colored .gif, which comes up
in a blink at Internet, and, in contrast to
.jpg, are perfectly sharp and eminently suitable
for textual graphics without blurred transitions.
 
[[Inside the full Firth Lisa platform of mine,
which is not connected to internet but is for
standard PCs (possibly in their own GJ2 net,
when we're talking the new hardware I'm making
for local communities in 3rd world with robotics
to do harvesting of bioethanol-suitable crops
to drive the energy-gobbling transistor-only
computer with my own type of CPU) -- you will get
the images as .BMP, easy to modify and convert
e.g. to .GIF or perhaps to the more slurred .JPG.
In the minigj2, you will see that GIF files are
produced, when you have fixed on java.policy
first -- and not merely .java.policy.]] 
 
These you can, page by page, print out
or use at your websites. In contrast to the 
hopeless Unicode Amharic HTML which never shows 
right for anyone who has any unusual/classic 
platform  configuration (I apologize for saying 
so, but it is true), we have something here
that really works, cross-platform, instantly.
These .GIFs are quickly viewable for ALL browsers 
without any exception whatsoever. [[Again, to 
use the CTRL-key with P  in order to save files 
locally to your harddisk, in the case of 
minigj2, you must of course have that 
java-dot-policy thingy fixed on properly.]]
 
 
EXPLANATION OF THE SUPERSIMPLE WAY TO
PRODUCE GRAPHICAL AMHARIC USING THE :AM IN
COMMAND IN MY BRIDGE2
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Rule 1:
You simply preceed each Amharic line with a # line.
 
When the first character on the line is a #, then
the rest of that line is translated graphically.
To see the Amharic beautiful longlegged graphics,
scroll a little up e.g. with PgUp to get it on top
of the page, then press that F9 and type in amount
of pages, e.g. 1 or 5. You press a key to go from
one page to the next. You can then
learn Amharic quickly, or you can use it for
professional production of Amharic texts.
  Since each Amharic letter is created by means
of usually more than one letter in terms of English
letters, the lines would get very short if we
interpreted the completion of a line of Amharic
characters in terms of a lineshift. Instead, we
interpret a full blank line as a lineshift.
To sum up,
 
Rule 2:
Click lineshift twice, rather than once, when
you want the Amharic words to go to the next line.
 
[[If you don't click lineshift twice before
you have filled up the line, the whole
line won't show but gets too far out
to the right on the screen.]]
 
Rule 3 -- a consequence of Rule 2:
When you in fact want ONE full blank line 
between paragraphs in your Amharic texts, 
put in TWO full blank lines between
the lines that begin with a #.
 
You'll learn it fast. This will then show 
beautifully in the graphical mode of the AM editor.
  So, since Amharic typically uses something which
looks much like the beloved colon between the words:
 
Rule 4:
Type a blank and a colon and a blank between each
Amharic word.
 
This will be converted correctly to the 
very beautiful Amharic standard of having
something colon-like between each word in
a sentence.
 
Rule 5:
To get the other types of signs in Amharic, such
as for the various types of Amharic-style colons
and semicolon and such, and the signs for the
various numbers above 0..9, please consult the
example texts AMH2.TXT and AMH3.TXT and/or
experiment with typing in various alternatives.
It should all be there, as far as the standard
depicted in fsi-language-courses.com goes.
 
Note that the way the AM Amharic .TXT editor
works, it is enormously easy to produce 
entirely standard texts which can be
used as all standard texts can -- without
the massive amount of megabytes for the
PDf files, without the complicated and
rarely quite working nicely HTML Unicode
approaches -- since very many people have
very many different platforms this approach
I have invented for you is, without the
slightest doubt, by far the best: and yet
I must acknowledge all the great work already
done, the various Amharic editors, the several
.ttf fonts and so on, as inspirational and
obviously important in a kind of foundational
way to get things started. But the continuation
of things must see a simpler, more inexpensive,
more international flow without download
requirements, and the way to produce .GIF files
as here depicted, with the .TXT files available
alongside them to show both pronounciation and
how they are made by the yoga6d.com/minigj2.htm
is obviously entirely superior in all ways --
this is immodest, but it is true, and it has
to be said.
 
HOW HAS THE LATIN TRANSCRIPTION BEEN MADE?
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Traditionally, when Amharic was transcribed
by means of paper-based typing machines, a
lot of lines and dots found their ways glued
to the latin characters. These have, of course,
no place whatsoever in the international 7-bit
ascii letters which entirely dominate all
computer industry (despite nonsensical approaches
by Microsoft to include 8-bit and 16-bit and
even 32-bit and 64-bit inside .HTML on occasion,
-- they are not in favour of open standards,
and rather like to mess up anything they can,
both their own products and others, when they
get too transparent for their bad tastebuds).
All good governments must avoid Microsoft
entirely. But then they must not merely
run stupidly over to the newest version of
Linux, which might in part be an imitation
of Microsoft -- ubuntu, used by that monopoly
Google, and so on. One must do these things
intelligently and restrain over-complexity.
  Anyway I have gone as near as I can to these
but added two criterions: (1) that we are going to
have something visually easily discernable rather
than a lot of tiny signs with minute differences,
and (2) we are going to only stick to the entirely
standard 7-bit international ascii character set
and not invoke any invention whatsoever over this.
  Also, a criterion which ALMOST goes without saying 
is that it is going to be easy to type in given a
perfectly ordinary English-layout computer. Who
cares for a keyboard with three hundred keys?
Who cares for a typing-in process in which one
must strain one's eyes to locate a particular
function-key combination merely to produce one
damn native letter? We want to be able to type 
at full speed and get Amaharic flowingly produced
without any problem whatsoever, and retain that
lovely 26-letter simplicity of the English
proper keyboard and its dozen or so natural
extra signs: and we want a beautiful expansion
into the beautiful Amharic script from this,
without loosing anything when we do this
expansion, but actually gain. And this, lo and
behold!, we get with my AM.TXT editor.
  So here are the samples (and other ones
in AMH1.TXT, AMH2.TXT and AMH3.TXT which are 
my typed-in excerpts of a few paragraphs in 
the many-hundred pages long free excellent 
www.fsi-language-courses.com material 
I referred to above). 
  The minigj2.htm has the international 7-bit
ascii keyboard available also to those who have
a keyboard which in some way, due to local
modifications, have been modified to produce
less than the whole range of standard characters.
This includes, for instance, ^ and { and such,
which come easily up by applying ALT with the
appropriate A..Z letter, or 0..9 digit.
  Feel free to use the AM editor! Here, then,
is Amharic nonsense sequences just to show
some graphical signs -- I made these without
ANY NOTION OF MEANINGFULNESS as to the content --
the meaningful, correct Amharic you find in
AMH1.TXT, AMH2.TXT and AMH3.TXT, whereas this 
is an educational text to get you going,
and to make us entirely inspired about this
all-important project. For I predict that
when the international resources gets sparse,
and nationalism grows, the bitternesses
which are around doesn't touch Africa as
much as other continents, for Africa has
spent more time in things which do not
create bitterness with other power- and
weapon-hungry nations and can reap for
their dancing peacefulness in the coming
century. Do remember pls the F9.
 
# ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa= 
# ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa= :  ha^ q v& qa= 
 
#     ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa= 
 
 
#  ha^ q v& qa= : 10 80 :: ; 
#     ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa= , 
 
# ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa=  ha^ q v& qa= .
# y= h> ga/ ma@ ta* -- 
 
Having seen the nonsensical sequence of
some graphical characters -- not all, just
some, pls then proceed to the tiny AMH1.TXT, 
AMH2.TXT and AMH3.TXT where some meaningful 
sequences are provided, and also a 
translation into English, with acknowledgements,
as said, to the massive material in the 
above-mentioned 
http://www.fsi-language-courses.com, 
-- and view it all, including, if you like,
this text, with the   :AM IN option in
the minigj2 when you have done the
proper java.policy settings and also
got the files to the standard folder.
[The minigj2 will have this from sometime
summer 2009, and from thereon steadily,
always. This text is both documentation
for the use of the program and for myself
as programmer of the program, an instruction
in how to make it.
 
 
Very cheerfully, I congratulate all those
who get the Firth Lisa GJ2 on a standalone PC
and work on it in the own creative space in
freedom from networking -- or, as an alternative,
hook up with me when I make the GJ2 Light Tube
(LT) computers, with Green Led-displays 1024*768 
and thousands of transistors, capacitors and what 
not, ultimately made by the robots driven by these 
GJ2 LT computers in relatively econological sound 
approach not dependent on anything such as ever-lasting 
global trade with all the ultra-specialized micro-factories
and the hugely sensitive technologies that goes
together in what is conventionally called "a laptop" --
a thing, which, if you have noticed, never lasts for
more than a certain number of hundred hours before
it is junk. One doesn't fix a laptop as much as
replace it -- even though its components are 
microcircuits of thousands of transistors. The
lack of maintenance possibilities of late 20th
century and very early 21st century developments
fitted nicely with the second-hand thinking in
economy, the Ponzi-schemes leading to lack of
substance in the economies, the druglords and
all that reckless attitude to matter, biology,
reality, and which also allowed idiotic sharia-
fundamentalism (which is, of course, atheism since
it denies the truth of the benevolent all-
compassionate origin of all with its own judgements),
to grow up in the poverty and decay on the side of
the sick cold second-hand capitalism. All this, we
of course brush aside and go for small-sized healthy
first-hand capital-thinking, free enterprises, free
liberty thinking as for bisexuality, strong 
regulation of what banks are allowed to do -- they
are to be servants, nothing more, of individuals
and small groups of individuals doing ecologically
meaningful things, but at the same time realistic
that Earth is a birth-place of humankind and that
there are factors involved which doesn't necessarily
say that Earth is going to be a nice place for living
beings for very very much longer, we'll see.
  In any case, those who go to Internet must face
the possibility of deceit and theft and hacking of
the wilfully wrong kind. It is for this reason that
I put strong limits on just what I produce to 
facilitate further Internet usage. It is also for
that reason that the minigj2 is NOT AT ALL
open source nor available for others to put on
their own sites -- because I want this type of
power not to spread but to be safely, conservatively
we might say, contained so that -- for instance --
something which pretends to be a site allowing
automatic generation of Amharic fonts into your
site is not merely a cover-up for something else.
So my two websites, the only ones ever, from now
on, http://www.yoga4d.com and http://www.yoga6d.com
give what they garantee, and this involves a
facilitation of stand-alone PCs in their own
internet-independent creative working space:
and also a way to do such nice things as generate
Amharic .gifs which you then can put to your own
website. The programming language at minigj2 you
get at by being in interaction with the actual
two sites of mine, http://www.yoga4d.com and 
http://www.yoga6d.com and, being constituted by
means of my own java 1.1.8 applet programming
from scratch to emulate a number of features, but
not all, of the full Lisa Gj2, also has a couple
of additions suitable for Internet -- but these are
not something anyone at all has any license to
go putting on his or her own site. Rather, the
stand-alone Firth OS each can put on her own
site, given that all licenses involved are
clearly and strongly respected forever.
 
In sum, then, good luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amharic and English: you combine the two: It's about being best in all,
my speciality. -- Aristo Tacoma.
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