[jsword-devel] parallel display with WLC

[DM Smith]

On Linux, it is especially important to find, install and use a good  
default font for English. The one supplied with Java is not all that  
good. It is possible to find and install MS fonts. Arial is especially  
good.



On May 2, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:

> Thanks for the long-term perspective. I think getting the recent  
> translations and other things are more important than fixing this  
> particular issue, but I appreciate your giving attention to it. I  
> think your release plan sounds good. When I first discovered this  
> project I made a genuine effort to start learning Java so I could  
> help, but I realized there were a few other (human) languages I  
> really needed to work on first. Thanks for your diligent work on BD.
>
> What you say about the parallel display makes sense to me.
>
> I am currently using Mandriva One 2008 Spring (KDE) and the Sun JRE  
> version 1.6.
>
> Daniel
>
> DM Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>> On May 2, 2008, at 2:44 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:
>>
>>> I've been working with Hebrew a lot lately, and I noticed in the  
>>> latest nightly build I have (jsword-1.0.8-20080426), while the WLC  
>>> loads beautifully on its own, font smoothing takes a hit when it  
>>> is loaded with other Bibles.
>>> If I load WLC first, the font I set for it (Ezra SIL) shows up  
>>> fine. However, when I add another Bible (say, ESV), the ESV font  
>>> looks rough.
>>> If I load the ESV first and then add the WLC, the font smoothing  
>>> for the ESV disappears, and the WLC font is probably the default  
>>> font for Bibles.
>>> If I change the default font to Ezra SIL, the last case is fine  
>>> for the WLC but teh ESV font smoothing still takes a hit.
>>> Whenever the Ezra SIL font is used, the vowel placement still  
>>> looks good.
>>> This font smoothing issue does not affect the pane on the right  
>>> side of the interface.
>>> I hope that's helpful. It is admittedly a cosmetic issue, but it  
>>> is annoying.
>>
>> There are a few things going on here:
>>
>> First:
>> It really boils down to that Java's HtmlEditorKit is terrible and  
>> needs to be replaced with a real, native browser. I've recently re- 
>> evaluated various options to embed Safari/Webkit, FireFox, and IE  
>> into BD and it will be a significant effort.
>>
>> The "any-day-now" release will have mostly be translations and a  
>> few performance improvements.
>> ELEPHANT will be the next release with persistence features. This  
>> will probably be 1.1.
>> The release after that will be 2.0 and will be a UI re-write that  
>> will fix this problem. As we work toward 2.0, we may release  
>> improvements and bug fixes to the 1.0 series.
>>
>> Second:
>> Parallel view is biased toward the first Bible. It uses the  
>> settings for that Bible to display the rest. Presuming that you  
>> have set per language or per book fonts, (say Arial for ESV and  
>> Ezra for Hebrew), if ESV is first then WLC will use Arial, but if  
>> WLC is first then ESV will use Ezra.
>>
>> I may be able to get this fixed with this release. I have entered a  
>> "bug" for this:
>> http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BD-127
>>
>>
>> Regarding the display, which OS and Java version are you using? In  
>> options, do you have Font Smoothing on or off and does changing  
>> that make any difference.
>>
>> In Him,
>>     DM
>>
>>
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