[sword-devel] Bishop 1.4.0 and SWORD Utility Modules

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Thank you to each one who responded with a font suggestion.  I have
bundled 3 suggestions.

There are two new options under Settings which should allow you to
selects a font for both the reading text and also the application text.

I first list all the bundled fonts, then 3 generic font families, and
finally I list all the fonts the OS tells me are available.  I haven't
much luck setting any of these last group on my phone, but they are
supposed to be available, so I left them in the list hoping it's just a
quirk with my phone.

Thank you again for the suggestions.

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On 3/19/20 9:59 PM, Michael H wrote:
> I like PT Serif and PT Sans because they have a wide coverage in
> Latin, and Cyrillic, including many minority languages. These fonts
> also have complimentary narrow and caption faces that are handy for
> proper typesetting, and a pretty well done kerning table, which really
> helps for extended reading and pushing the font as small as possible. 
>
> The Font with the best unicode coverage in Latin that I like the best
> is EBGaramond. (mated with Ysabeau for Sans.) But this is a tall font,
> and for screens that's not the most accepted way to view. (Phone
> screens today can (almost always) handle it, but the low res has
> created an expectation of short and fat letters, not tall letters.) 
>
> Another very good unicode coverage font for latin text is Garava
> (http://www.softerviews.org/Fonts.html ) It's shaped better for
> screens. I've wanted to use the included illuminated capitals, but I
> don't get as much time for development as I'd like. It's a good choice
> to include as an alternative, but I wouldn't recommend it for an ONLY
> choice. 
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 10:13 PM Michael Johnson <Michael at ebible.org
> <mailto:Michael at ebible.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 3/19/20 4:41 PM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>     > Does anyone have a special place in their heart for a favorite
>     font they
>     > would recommend?  It should be freely usable, have a good
>     coverage of
>     > Unicode and preferably already converted to a web font.
>
>     I have been using DejaVu Serif a lot. It is plain, very readable,
>     and has good Unicode coverage for several writing systems. It is
>     also free.
>
>     https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.ttf
>
>     https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff
>
>     https://eBible.org/fonts/dejavuserif.woff2
>
>
>
>
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