- From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr>
- Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 18:01:22 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr, www-amaya@w3.org
On Thursday 24 November 2005 17:13, Ivan Herman wrote: > Well... > > I am not sure what is going on. > > - I found those two files. First of all, I am not sure the file is all > right by default (unless WIndows plays some internal trick). Indeed, on my > XP, the font files are in c:\windows\fonts and not in c:\winnt\fonts as in > those files. So I began by changing that, plus exchanged the unicode ones > to Arialuni.TTF (the Arial Unicode MS TTF file). I saw no difference on the > display of my files. (I made the change in both files). Amaya is looking for all these paths. But I made a confusion: your problem concerns the WX widget and not the displayed characters in documents (Esstix is used to display symbols in documents). I don't know at the moment how WX looks for its fonts. I'll investigate. > > - I then put the same Arialuin.TTF file for what you call Esstix. Nothing > changed... > > As for the list of symbols that are not visible: actually most of them. If > I take, for example the list for <= and others (the lower left hand corner > tab), the leq, geq, lt, gt, equals, thcap are *visible*, *all* others have > an empty square instead. This makes this special character stuff pretty > much unusable:-( > > Ivan > > P.S. Of course, the obvious comment: the average user should not be > required to massage those files, there should be some sort of a preference > setting... > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Irene Vatton <Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr> > To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> > CC: www-amaya@w3.org > Subject: Re:special characters and related font problems. > Date: 24/11/2005 16:43 > > > On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:50, Ivan Herman wrote: > >>Using Amaya 9.2.2. on Windows XP. > >> > >>It is great to have the spacial characters facility to type, eg, > >>mathematical symbols. However, the usability of the panel is greatly > >>reduced by the fact that, for most of the characters, the symbol itself > >> is not visible at all, only the symbolic name (which is way too cryptic > >> most of the time). > >> > >>I guess a preference should set the font to be used there. I do have > >> fonts on my machine (eg, Arial Unicode MS) that could display all those > >> characters, so... > >> > >>I also realized a similar problem when editing a file itself. I am not > >> sure which font the editor uses as a default, but most of the > >> mathematical symbols (added to the file in Unicode UTF-8) are not > >> displayed (although they appear perfectly on my, say, firefox screen > >> using the same file). > >> > >>A final issue related to fonts: if I want to set the font-family to a > >>specific font from the left panel, I cannot. The only choice Amaya gives > >> me is the generic fonts. Ie, I have to go to the source view... > >> > >>Ivan > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Ivan Herman > >>W3C Communications Team, Head of Offices > >>C/o W3C Benelux Office at CWI, Kruislaan 413 > >>1098SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands > >>tel: +31-20-5924163; mobile: +31-641044153; > >>URL: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > > > > Hi Ivan, > > > > The list of explored fonts is given by 2 configuration files (I guess you > > use the Windows version): Amaya\config\fonts.gl.win and > > Amaya\config\fonts.gl.win.nt > > where $OSDIR means the system directory and $THOTDIR means the Amaya > > directory. > > For symbols we use Esstix fonts as the majority of ttf files don't > > include these symbols. > > > > Do you remember what symbols are not displayed? > > > > Irène. > > ----- > > Irène Vatton INRIA Rhône-Alpes > > INRIA ZIRST > > e-mail: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr 655 avenue de l'Europe > > Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 61 Montbonnot > > Fax: +33 4 76 61 52 07 38334 Saint Ismier Cedex - France -- Irène. ----- Irène Vatton INRIA Rhône-Alpes INRIA ZIRST e-mail: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr 655 avenue de l'Europe Tel.: +33 4 76 61 53 61 Montbonnot Fax: +33 4 76 61 52 07 38334 Saint Ismier Cedex - France
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