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 On Saturday, December 19, 2015, David Haslam <dfh...@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. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/A-question-about-fonts-to-get-front-end-developers-thinking-tp4655464.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org <javascript:;> > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
_______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
