Re: Some comments on Amaya 1.3a.

David J Woolley wrote:
> 
> > Using NS 4.5 with no extra plugins or fonts that I know of, the referred
> 
> Unfortunately NS is currently about one major version behind IE and
> implements much less of the current HTML standard.
> 
> > to  page showed what looked a lot like Greek to me.
>                        ^^^^^^
> 
> That's the problem, you are making the characters look like greek by
> misrepresenting them by using a font which displays them wrongly.
> HTML is a logical markup language and can be processed by tools other
> than MS Windows GUI browsers (including indexing tools and screen
> readers for the blind).
> 
> Currently the cleanest solution to mixing greek in, if you have to
> support non-HTML 4 browser, is probably to GIF the individual
> characters and use the entity codes as the alt text.  There are
> probably cases where abusing fonts is the pragmatic solution, but it
> should only be considered a solution to the extent that you must
> support inadequate browsers, and it is more important to get the
> right graphic effect, and you know that the target audience will be
> using a GUI browser with a font with the Microsoft Symbol encoding
> vector, rather than to communicate information in a machine
> processable form.
> 
> If appearence isn't absolutely critical, all browsers that I have
> tried, that don't handle the entities properly, will display the
> uninterpreted entity code, so the reader can tell exactly what was
> intended.
David-- I compared the display and print of NS4.5 on 
http://www.neta.com/~cherry/greek.html
and the display and print of TrueTeX on
http://www.neta.com/~cherry/greek.tex
They did not look very different.
I can send you a gif of each if you want.
Regards, Jim
Jim FitzSimons
Mailto:cherry@neta.com

Received on Wednesday, 11 November 1998 10:22:35 UTC