Editing Deseret alphabet (section)

=== Rediscovery in the computer era ===
[[File:Three phrases in Deseret.svg|thumb|Three questions ("Where is my room?", "Where is the beach?" and "Where is the bar?") in a Deseret digital computer typeface]]

Modern [[digital typography]] has reduced the costs of typesetting substantially, especially for small print runs.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_TKBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|title=Handbook of Typography for the Mathematical Sciences|last=Krantz|first=Steven G.|date=2000-08-31|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781420036015|pages=149|language=en|access-date=26 August 2017|archive-date=1 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801014916/https://books.google.com/books?id=o_TKBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Free content|Freely licensed]] Deseret alphabet fonts can be used at no additional cost.

[[Film director]] [[Trent Harris]] used the Deseret alphabet in his 1994 satire of Mormon theology, ''[[Plan 10 from Outer Space]]'', where it features as an alien language used on a mysterious "Plaque of [[Kolob]]".<ref name="Beesley2002" />{{rp|37}}

During the 1996 Utah Centennial celebration, an [[activity book]] for children was distributed, within which one of the activities was for a child to write their own name in the alphabet. The book says that a child who does this will be "the first kid in 100 years to write [their] name in the Deseret alphabet!"<ref name="Zion1996">{{Cite web|url=http://brionzion.com/a-b-book.htm |title=Brion Zion's DESERET ALPHABET BOOK |last=Zion |first=Brion |year=1996 |website=brionzion.com |publisher=Wanderer Press, L.C. |access-date=2017-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703094802/http://brionzion.com/a-b-book.htm |archive-date=2015-07-03 }}</ref>

Also in 1996, ''Buffalo River Press'' published a reprint of the ''Deseret First Book'', of which only 10,000 were originally printed.<ref name="Zion1996" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Deseret First Book (Deseret Alphabet) Historic Reprint |date=1996-01-01 |publisher=Buffalo River Press |isbn=9781887727020|edition=Later printing |location=Salt Lake City |language=en}}</ref> The entire ''Book of Mormon'' in the Deseret alphabet has been likewise reprinted,<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Book of Mormon (2015 Deseret Alphabet edition): Another Testament of Jesus Christ |first=Joseph | last= Smith | author-link=Joseph Smith |date=2015-01-31 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=9781507628232|language=en}}</ref> as only 500 copies from the original print run exist, and they can sell on eBay for ≈$7,500 (as of 2004).<ref name="Beesley2002" />{{rp|47}} In 1997, John Jenkins [[electronic publishing|uploaded]] a free three part [[Portable Document Format|PDF]] of the so-called "triple combination", that is, a combined ''Book of Mormon'', ''Doctrine and Covenants'' and ''[[Pearl of Great Price (Mormonism)|Pearl of Great Price]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.deseretalphabet.org/files/Triple.pdf |title=Triple Combination: Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price in the Deseret Alphabet |translator=John Jenkins |year=1997 |website=Deseret Alphabet Portal |location=Cupertino, California |access-date=14 September 2019 |archive-date=30 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830214827/http://deseretalphabet.org/files/Triple.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

John Jenkins has gone on to publish many classic pieces of [[English literature]] in the Deseret alphabet, such as ''[[Alice in Wonderland]],''<ref>{{Cite book |title=Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (<span lang="en-Dsrt>𐐈𐑊𐐮𐑅'𐑆 𐐈𐐼𐑂𐐯𐑌𐐽𐐲𐑉𐑆 𐐮𐑌 𐐎𐐲𐑌𐐼𐐲𐑉𐑊𐐰𐑌𐐼</span>): An edition printed in the Deseret Alphabet |last=Carroll |first=Lewis |others=Foreword by: John H. Jenkins |date=2014-09-21 |url=https://www.evertype.com/carrolliana.html |publisher=[[Evertype]] |isbn=9781782010647 |language=en |access-date=23 January 2017 |archive-date=10 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170210102915/http://www.evertype.com/carrolliana.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'',<ref name="Austen2013">{{Cite book|title=𐐑𐑉𐐴𐐼 𐐰𐑌𐐼 𐐑𐑉𐐯𐐾𐐲𐐼𐐮𐑅 |trans-title=Pride and Prejudice  | others= Adapter: John H. Jenkins |last=Austen |first=Jane |date=2013-04-01 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=9781482672015|edition=1|language=en}}</ref> and ''[[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz]].''<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |last=Baum |first=L. Frank |date=2016-12-30 |publisher=CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform |isbn=9781541134720|language=en}}</ref>

Owing to the character set's inclusion in Unicode, most of the original books and many of the original manuscripts have been transcribed into [[plain text]],<ref name="Beesley2002" />{{rp|32–34}} and, when this is not possible due to discrepancies between the Unicode reference glyphs and the documents, [[LaTeX]].<ref name="Beesley2004" />{{rp|42}}

==== Fonts ====
[[File:Information wants to be free in five different modern computer fonts for the Deseret alphabet.svg|thumb |300x300px |The phrase "<span lang="en-Dsrt>𐐆𐑌𐑁𐐲𐑉𐑋𐐩𐑇𐐲𐑌 𐐶𐐪𐑌𐐻𐑅 𐐻𐐭 𐐺 𐑁𐑉𐐨</span>" ([[Information wants to be free]]) in five Deseret fonts. From top, Noto Sans Deseret, QueenBee Star, TuBeeRound, Times Bee and Analecta.]] The first digital font for the Deseret alphabet, called "Deseret", was designed by Greg Kearney as part of work he was doing for the [[Church History Library|LDS Church History Department]] in 1991; the font was used in an [[Exhibit design|exhibit]] that year.<ref name="Beesley2004" />{{rp|32}} In August 1995, a cleaned up, digitized version of the font in use in the ''Deseret Second Book'' was created by Salt Lake City graphic designer Edward Bateman, who made the font in [[Fontographer]] while working on ''[[Plan 10 from Outer Space]]''.<ref name="Beesley2004" />{{rp|32–33}}

Kenneth R. Beesley created a [[Metafont]] (and thus, LaTeX-compatible) font called {{Monospace|[https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/desalph desalph]}} in 2002.<ref name="Beesley2004" />{{rp|37–38}}<ref name="desalph_source">{{Cite web|url=https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/desalph/blob/3c2544fc4b69c3eae0e09369a5e86d7e43c843e0/mf/desalph.txt|title=<code>desalph.mf</code> source code|date=2002-02-23|last=Beesley|first=Kenneth R.|via=[[GitHub]]|access-date=12 May 2021|archive-date=25 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125014224/https://github.com/ctrlcctrlv/desalph/blob/3c2544fc4b69c3eae0e09369a5e86d7e43c843e0/mf/desalph.txt|url-status=live}}</ref>

All computers running [[Microsoft]]'s [[Windows 7]] operating system or newer can display the entire Deseret alphabet Unicode range as the glyphs are included in the [[Segoe#Variations|Segoe UI Symbol]] font.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/ee426904.aspx |title=What's New for International Customers in Windows 7 |website=Microsoft Developer Network |publisher=Microsoft |access-date=2017-01-19 |quote=In Windows 7, support for 10 new scripts is added: Braille, '''Deseret''', New Tai Lue, Ogham, Osmanya, Phags-pa, Runic, Symbols, Tai Le, and Tifinagh. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131184755/https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/ee426904.aspx |archive-date=2017-01-31 }}</ref>

Besides maintaining a Deseret [[input method]] for Windows, Joshua Erickson, a [[UCLA]] alumnus, also maintains a large collection of [[freeware]] Unicode fonts for the alphabet, which he collectively terms the "Bee Fonts."<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Sans_Serif.html |title=Deseret Bee Fonts |last=Erickson |first=Joshua |website=Joshua Erickson's Deseret Alphabet Pages |publisher=University of California Los Angeles Chemistry & Biochemistry Department |access-date=2017-01-06 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303202706/http://copper.chem.ucla.edu/~jericks/Sans_Serif.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

There also exist [[free software]] fonts for the Deseret alphabet. [[Google]], through its [[Noto Sans]] project, the aim of which is "to support all languages with a harmonious look and feel", has also released a Deseret font under the name "Noto Sans Deseret".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.google.com/get/noto/ |title=Google Noto Fonts |website=www.google.com |access-date=2017-01-06 |archive-date=8 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170108130144/https://www.google.com/get/noto/ |url-status=live }}</ref> George Douros maintains a [[public domain]] font called "Analecta" as part of his [[Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts]] project, which supports the [[Coptic language|Coptic]], [[Gothic language|Gothic]], and Deseret scripts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ |title=Unicode Fonts for Ancient Scripts |last=Douros |first=George |date=1 October 2015 |access-date=7 January 2017 |archive-date=21 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721083505/http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/Akkadian256.zip |url-status=live }}</ref> Deseret glyphs are also available in the popular pan-Unicode fonts [[Code2000|Code2001]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.alanwood.net/unicode/deseret.html |title=Deseret – Test for Unicode support in Web browsers |last=Wood |first=Alan |date=27 October 2001 |website=Alan Wood's Unicode Resources |access-date=2017-01-19 |archive-date=4 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170204215420/http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/deseret.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Everson Mono]] (as of version 5.1.5).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.evertype.com/emono/ |title=Everson Mono |last=Everson |first=Michael |date=2008-12-28 |website=Evertype |access-date=2017-01-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705024437/http://www.evertype.com/emono/ |archive-date=2017-07-05 }}</ref>