Unicopt
Some time ago I wanted to put a text of Discourse on the Abbaton online, as I'd studied it in my Coptic class but couldn't find it online (other than Budge's English translation). I started out with the Coptonew font, since that's the one I prefer, with various English letters mapping to Coptic ones. That seemed to be the wrong approach, however. Later on I found Unicode and knew immediately that it was what I needed. There weren't any Unicode fonts for Coptic, however. So, I took Coptonew and made it Unicode-compatible, ending up with Unicopt.
Notes
I decided to keep the original Coptonew characters where they were (i.e. in the ASCII spots), so that Unicopt can be a replacement for Coptonew and not just an auxiliary font. I also did this because some of the capitals in Coptonew have glyphs that have no Unicode representation (e.g. the "IC" with a stroke across the top, for "Jesus").
I think the TrueType hinting may have gotten lost in the conversion (PfaEdit doesn't have TTF hinting support), so I'll need to work on that later. I'll soon have Type 1 versions of the font here as well.
I wasn't exactly sure where the supralinear stroke ought to be placed, so I put it in as a combining macron (code 0304).
Download
Unicopt -- version 1.0, TrueTypeUnicopt -- PfaEdit source, .sfd
Coptonew -- original font, TrueType
Coptonew Chart -- keyboard code chart for Coptonew
History
7-15-2002: Version 1.0 uploaded
7-17-2002: Version 1.1 uploaded (fixed combining macron)
