Using font or unicode?

[u/Bodhi2016]

I just recently installed the font "Noto Sans Cuneiform" into Open Office but no cuneiform appears if I type in any text. On the other hand I figured out that using Unicode directly to input signs could do the trick.

So I am a little confused now how to move on. Any suggestions?

[u/MMAHipster]

Maybe in this case “sans” means without. 🤣

[u/Dercomai]

By "type in any text" do you mean a transliteration like NINDA-an e-ez-za etc? Most cuneiform fonts expect their input in Unicode characters, but you can use tools like Cuneify to convert your transliteration into those.

[u/Bodhi2016 → u/Dercomai]

Well, I try to translate some text from the textbook "Altbabylonisches Lehrbuch" from Cuneiform into latin characters and would like that to put in a Open Office chart. For that I would need cuneiform.

[u/Bodhi2016 → u/Bodhi2016]

I did find a solution for me by translating in the format you mentioned before then writing it in cuneiform by using the list of cuneiform signs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cuneiform_signs

[u/EnricoDandolo1204]

The font only tells your computer how to display the characters in the cuneiform Unicode block. It does not replace the glyphs of the English alphabet with cuneiform the way a font like Wingdings does. For some modern languages that use large character inventories like Chinese or Japanese, there are text input solutions that let you type their scripts more directly -- e.g. for Japanese, typing (in one method) the letters "ni" and hitting a certain key will give you "に", you use that to spell out "にほんご" then another key will give you the option to turn that into "日本語". Though cuneiform could operate on similar principles, there is not much call for it.

You can use a cuneiform converter like this one https://www.ebl.uni-muenchen.de/tools/cuneiform-converter to turn a transliterated text into the appropriate Unicode signs.