In the beginning of the printing era it was usual to print characters that are no longer used. It's no easy to write these characters in a computer now.

This application converts text with usual chars into other text with ligatures and ancient symbols.

If you want to use these text in an word processor, you must have installed one or more of these fonts: Cardo, Junicode, Andron Scriptor Web, follow the link in order to download and install.

Options

  • Ligature ffl (ffl)
  • Ligature ffi (ffi)
  • Ligature ft (ft)
  • Ligature fl (fl)
  • Ligature ff (ff)
  • Ligature fi (fi)
  • Ligature ss (ss)
  • Ligature st (st)
  • Long s (s_)
  • Versicle (V/)
  • Response (R/)
  • Roman reverse one hundred (CCCCC)
  • Letter us (us)
  • Rum rotunda (rum)
  • Tironian et (et)
  • Insular d (d_)
  • P with flourish (abb. de pro) (pro)
  • P with stroke (abb. per) (per)
  • P with squirrel tail (abb. prae) (prae_)
  • Ligature AE (AE)
  • Ligature ae (ae)
  • Ligature OE (OE)
  • Ligature oe (oe)
  • macron (nn)
  • j to i (j)
  • u to u (u)
  • Paragraph sign (¶)
  • Eliminate returns (\n)

If you see error in the program or in the text (English is not my mother tongue) or you want the application has another glyph send me an email to bibliotranstornado (at) gmail (dot) com.

History

To-do
Output in Gothic font.
Show info about the glyphs.
2010-09-27 0.3.2ß
Select the transformations using era.
Convert \"j\" into \"i\".
Convert \"u\" into \"v\".
2010-09-27 0.3.1ß
Diacritical macron
2010-09-27 0.3ß
Translate into English
2010-09-27 0.2.1ß
Add a output text you can select and copy.
Added new medieval abbreviations.
2010-09-27 0.2ß
Using Cufon to view output. It's no necessary to have the font installed.
New glyphs.
2010-01-13 0.ß
Initial version

Write here the text you want to see in old style.

Examples: Quijote Lorem ipsum Lista de glifos Lazarillo Cicero