- From: Laurent Carcone <carcone@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:23:34 +0200
- To: Leif Halvard Silli <hyperlekken@lenk.no>
- CC: Irene.Vatton@inrialpes.fr, www-amaya@w3.org
Hello Leif, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: > > Irene Vatton 11.09.2007 10:31: >> On Monday 10 September 2007 22:59, Leif Halvard Silli wrote: >> > Hi - in trying to put Amaya to work, we feel hampered by the somewhat >> > primitive font support. >> > >> > It seems as if Amaya doesn't support the installed fonts on my Mac. >> > >> > Is there any page somewhere that describes how one can make Amay use >> > other fonts than the built-in fonts it comes with? >> > >> > (I would actually have been satisfied, as author, with Amaya if it >> > weren't because we need to work with combining diacritica. And each >> time >> > I insert a combining diacritica, then Amaya - or the fonts it >> supports - >> > starts to render the text in very impractical ways: The insertino >> point >> > moves away from the "typing point" -- the insertion point looks as >> if it >> > is placed 1-2 characters to the right of the real insertion point. And >> > hence it all becomes very difficult to write. >> > >> > On Mac OS X the 'Lucidad Grande' font is the default font - and >> support >> > for that font, would have been very good. >> >> The FAQ should explain that " How to change fonts?" >> For more information about these configutation files, see >> http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/FontConfig.html >> > (The H1 header of that page is unreadble because of same > background-color and color.) > > There are some things I don't understand with the fonts.gl file: > > 1. Is «0 for unicode ( for japanese)» used _only_ for Japanese? > 2. What, if I e.g. set 'Times New Roman' for «1;#Latin1 (West > European)», and in addition set 'New York' for «10;#Latin6 > (Nordic)» - what will I get for the letter «æ», which exist in > both «Scripts»/charsets? Will I get New York if I use the > ISO-8859-10 encoding in the web page, or what? > > Some perhaps less important things: > > 1. About this syntax, for writing several faces on the same line, > > <font-family>;<font-face>=<font descriptor>;<font > descriptor>;.... > > (where <font-face> is a number and <font descriptor> is a file > path - unless I am mistaken) did you forget to include > <font-face>-number before the second <font descriptor>;? Or should > I be able to write this - without any number befor the bold and > italic fonts? > > > 1;1=SeriFont-norm;SeriFont-bold;SeriFont-italic;SeriFont-bold-italic; > > >> If you have a better "fonts.gl.mac" available, don't hesitate to send >> us. It will be integrated to our future distributions. >> > > I will look into that. > > The fonts.gl.mac file contains reference to Cyberbit - which is > supposed to be inside the $THOT/fonts directory, but I am unable to > find that font there. The Cyberbit font file is not freely deliverable with Amaya, but you can install it by yourself in the $THOT/fonts directory (basically /Applications/Amaya.app/Contents/MacOS/Amaya9.55/config for the last release) The file can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/extras/fonts/windows/Cyberbit.ZIP > > About the diacritical characters that we need to use, there really > seems to be a bug in Amaya for Mac OS X when it comes to those > characters - I tried to also test Amaya on Windows, but as I only > have emulation, I was not able to test properly. On my Windows, Amaya > crashed when I pasted in combining acute accent (́). OTOH, it did > seem as if it did not have any effeect on the typing. > > The problem on Mac is that, regardless which font I use, when I use > that combining acute accent, then Amaya moves the cursor away from the > letter, placing it above the next letter. > > This happens per line. So if you have many combining accute letter per > line, then the cursor/typing marker will move perhaps more than one > character width away from the actual typing point. It also becomes > difficult to select precisely. > > So, I really hope you can look into this issue. For myself, it is the > most important bug with Amaya, right now ... I'm not able to reproduce this problem, I'd like some precisions: . what keyboard are you using ? . what characters are you trying to enter, using what key sequence ? I tried to enter accented characters with a us keyboard in the way described in Help > Characters and I had no such problem (I tested on version 9.55) Thanks, Laurent Carcone
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