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

2015-12-19 Thread David Haslam
From the OSIS Reference Manual... The foreign element is used to mark a portion of text that is not in the primary language of the text, such as ‘Talitha Cum’ in Mark 5:41. The specific language should be indicated via the xml:lang attribute. For example: He took her by the hand and said to her:

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

2015-12-19 Thread Peter von Kaehne
Iirc, OSIS offers an element . 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 wrote: > > On other systems, this is

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

2015-12-19 Thread Michael H
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.m

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

2015-12-19 Thread David Haslam
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 research