[mobile-devel] Hebrew font?

[Daniel Owens]

My understanding is that the Tahoma font that ships with WM is missing a lot of glyphs, which is why copying the Tahoma font from Windows improves things. If SwordReader had a font configuration option so you could choose something other than the system font, that would permit display of basically all ltr languages, including polytonic Greek. If I knew how to write the code, I would. Rtl languages are another matter, but a simple font chooser would be fantastic.

Daniel 

-----Original Message-----
From: "David Trotz" <dtrotzjr at crosswire.org>
To: "All things related to SWORD mobile development." <mobile-devel at crosswire.org>
Sent: 2/8/09 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [mobile-devel] Hebrew font?

Ken,
That is very encouraging. I will look into getting the characters to 
read in the correct direction. It may not be in the next release, but 
who knows.
--
In Christ,
David Trotz

Ken Penner wrote:
> Yes, I'm running Swordreader v1.9 beta 1.
> I solved one of the problems: By copying the Tahoma fonts from my desktop to my HTC Diamond \Windows\Fonts folder, what were boxes are now Hebrew characters. Unfortunately, they are not displayed in proper Hebrew order, right-to-left. Still, this is an improvement.
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Drake [mailto:bdrake at crosswire.org] 
> Sent: February 6, 2009 11:39 AM
> To: All things related to SWORD mobile development.
> Subject: Re: [mobile-devel] Hebrew font?
>
> Hi Ken ........
>
> Ken Penner wrote:
>   
>> I just installed the beta today, and get boxes instead of Hebrew glyphs 
>> when using the WLC Hebrew Bible. 
>>     
>
> First, welcome to this list.  If you are using SwordReader with Windows 
> Mobile on a Pocket PC then, yes you have come to the right place. 
> Sadly, this edition which is the latest, does not yet support Hebrew (at 
> all) or even Greek with accents.  Both are on the todo list, but please 
> be very patient as there is only one developer, David Trotz, who is 
> actively working on this project, snd he is to say the least, stretched.
>
> I hope this excellent app. is useful to you in the meantime.  Keep your 
> eyes open for updates.  This list should keep you informed.  Don't 
> forget to say which app you are using when asking questions - there is a 
> SwordReader list which is even more specific (assuming you are using 
> SwordReader).
>
> God bless,
> Barry
>
> -- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United 
> Reformed church, Nottingham see http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk for 
> our church homepages).
>
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