It still doesn’t feel like school is really out. I meant to spend a lot of time reading and studying German, but oddly enough I’ve been in a computer mood all week. Oh well.

Yesterday I put together a CD of my music, called “Into the Sunset.” I tried convolving the files with some various impulse response sounds first, but they always ended up sounding too muddied (although quite realistic). I need to find IR sounds from a concert hall or something like that. At any rate, I ended up just using Timidity’s reverb. I wanted to start recording my music on our digital piano and then playing it through a cable into the microphone jack on here (there’s no line-in jack), but it was scratchy and so I had to scrap the idea. MIDIs are okay, but they sound so mechanical and computery. (That’s why I wanted to add the reverb, to try to give some kind of human element to it.)

I tried entering in the Discourse on Abbaton, the last text we studied in my Coptic class, but to no avail. Unicode doesn’t have very good Coptic support (you have to use Greek characters for all but the Demotic characters, which aren’t quite how Coptic looks), nor is using <font> tags working right now (but that’s not the way I want to do it either). Hmm.

I played around with it some more but with no luck. Entering Unicode characters by hand is very tedious. If I do end up going with Unicode, I’ll probably try out Yudit. I may try to get the <font> tags to work with Coptonew; that may be the easiest route (and perhaps even the only possible one).

Well, I finally got AbiWord to recognize my Coptonew font (although it still won’t print with it), so at least I can start entering it in. I ended up making a font chart to show which keys correspond to which Coptic characters. I made it by hand in the Gimp and like the design a lot.

It started raining yesterday afternoon and is still overcast and wet outside. I love it. Knowing Utah weather, though, all the clouds will disappear in ten minutes and it’ll be 90 degrees. Either that or it’ll snow.