[tex-live] I must be missing something with TeX...

[Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd)]

Dear Tim --

Let me start by saying that I have no idea whatsoever
how to achieve anything under Ubuntu, Red Hat, Yellow
Penguin, Debian, Snow Leopard, or any other flavour
of Unix or Linux : I work solely under Windows/XP.

That said, I have looked at your message and at
your files.

I have rejected using

	1ᎯᎠᎪᏪᎵᎧᏃᎮᎭ

because it seems unnecessarily opaque, and have instead elected
to process

	http://www.cherokeenewtestament.org/01.txt

Then, I have investigated "Cherokee.ttf"; from what I can
see, the author does not recommend it for serious work,
and suggests intending Cherokee typesetters use the
authoritative Cherokee font instead.  To that end, I have
downloaded and installed Digohweli.ttf from

	http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/Font/Instructions.htm

Finally I have written a six-line TeX file using the TeXworks editor :

	\font \Cherokee = "Digohweli"
	\Cherokee
	\parindent = 0 em
	\obeylines
	\input 01.txt
	\end

I set the default processing engine to XeTeX and press the "Compile"
button, and the attached PDF results.

Philip Taylor
-- 
Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackberry, Blueberry, or any
such similar poseurs' toy, none of which would I be seen dead
with even if they came free with every packet of cornflakes.
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