[sword-devel] A question about fonts - to get front-end developers thinking

[Peter von Kaehne]

Iirc, OSIS offers an element <foreign>. I suppose if addded a type attribute x-greek or some such we could at least on html based frontends assign a separate code via css. 

Peter

Sent from my phone. Apologies for brevity and typos.On 19 Dec 2015 6:09 pm, Michael H <cmahte at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On other systems, this is addressed with font per Unicode range tables. That is, each character or paragraph style has the option to have supplementary fonts assigned to a range of Unicode.  This might not be feasible with low power processors you see in today's mobile devices.
>
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@font-face/unicode-range
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> On Saturday, December 19, 2015, David Haslam <dfhmch at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Suppose a Bible translation for language with a non-Roman script has
>> footnotes that contain some Hebrew or Greek text.
>>
>> What then?
>>
>> The likelihood that a single Unicode font has coverage for the Biblical
>> languages as well as the target language non-Roman script is pretty small.
>>
>> Is anyone researching this?
>>
>> Code2000 might be first choice, but this lacks sufficient coverage for
>> codepoints added in Unicode 5.0 and later.
>>
>> David
>>
>> PS. I first raised this question in the Facebook group called Digital Bible
>> and Translation Issues.
>> Our STEP Bible friends at Tyndale House, Cambridge have already encountered
>> this problem.
>>
>>
>>
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