Version history:
1.0, 9 February 2018
1.0.1, 9 February 2018
1.1, 17 May 2019
1.2, 23 May 2019
The Mandaic script is a right-to-left alphabet. For a brief description of the script, see ScriptSource.org and especially Richard Ishida’s Mandaic script summary. Software support for Mandaic is very patchy, especially among page layout applications. It is to be noted that as of the time of this writing, May 23, 2019, the latest version of Adobe InDesign (CC 2019, v. 14.02) is still not capable of correctly rendering Mandaic text. This rules out most typesetters employed by Brill.
Typesetting Mandaic texts is currently only possible at TAT Zetwerk of Utrecht, the Netherlands, because they utilize a LuaTeX setup, in which they have access to very low-level program code and to the complete text stack.
The only non-bitmap typeface available for the Mandaic script per the time of this writing, May 23, 2019, is Google’s Noto Sans Mandaic.
Brill 11 pt: ~ Noto Sans Mandaic 11¼ pt
Brill 10 pt: ~ Noto Sans Mandaic 10¼ pt
Brill 9 pt: ~ Noto Sans Mandaic 9¼ pt
At this time, only Richard Ishida provides a text input method via his online Mandaic character picker.