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Yes, I agree. I keep a folder of truetype fonts that I install first
thing, including Arial. I have some especially good Vietnamese fonts
that I use, one of which I have as the default font for BD. It's called
UVN Saigon, is like Bookman, and works very well for Vietnamese and
English. For Greek and Hebrew there are a number of great fonts
available for free. Ironically Linux Libertine has great polytonic
Greek (and decent Hebrew), but my favorite for Hebrew is Ezra SIL. SBL
Hebrew is a close second. <br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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DM Smith wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:3D3FDB84-0ED2-4A63-A3B2-5AB87BCA9F63@yahoo.com"
type="cite">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.
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On May 2, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:
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<br>
<blockquote type="cite">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.
<br>
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What you say about the parallel display makes sense to me.
<br>
<br>
I am currently using Mandriva One 2008 Spring (KDE) and the Sun JRE
version 1.6.
<br>
<br>
Daniel
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DM Smith wrote:
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On May 2, 2008, at 2:44 AM, Daniel Owens wrote:
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<br>
<blockquote type="cite">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.
<br>
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.
<br>
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.
<br>
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.
<br>
Whenever the Ezra SIL font is used, the vowel placement still looks
good.
<br>
This font smoothing issue does not affect the pane on the right side of
the interface.
<br>
I hope that's helpful. It is admittedly a cosmetic issue, but it is
annoying.
<br>
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<br>
There are a few things going on here:
<br>
<br>
First:
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
The "any-day-now" release will have mostly be translations and a few
performance improvements.
<br>
ELEPHANT will be the next release with persistence features. This will
probably be 1.1.
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
Second:
<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
I may be able to get this fixed with this release. I have entered a
"bug" for this:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BD-127">http://www.crosswire.org/bugs/browse/BD-127</a>
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<br>
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.
<br>
<br>
In Him,
<br>
DM
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