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Font button to allow changing default font from Times New Roman to other fonts #104

Open DavidIB opened 2 years ago

DavidIB commented 2 years ago

Someone commented ( at https://stepweb.atlassian.net/browse/FST-2034?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMzlkNmZiMDdiMWVjNDE4ZmFlMWVlYjExZGEyNTA0OWIiLCJwIjoiaiJ9) that a San Serif font such as Segoe UI is much clearer to read on a screen for English & Greek So it would be nice to offer to let people have a San serif font, or to let them pick any font they want.

Note: We do NOT want to offer to change the Hebrew font because very few get the Furtive Patach conrrect

patricksptang commented 2 years ago

Darcy and I tried other Greek font but it did not work for some systems. I think the ascent did not work well on some systems.

The font we use have to be downloaded from www.STEPBible.org to the user’s browser. We need to find a Greek font which will work for all systems.

Does anyone know which Greek font will work on all systems (computers, Android and IPhone)?

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 2:23 AM David Instone-Brewer < @.***> wrote:

Someone commented ( at https://stepweb.atlassian.net/browse/FST-2034?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMzlkNmZiMDdiMWVjNDE4ZmFlMWVlYjExZGEyNTA0OWIiLCJwIjoiaiJ9 ) that a San Serif font such as Segoe UI is much clearer to read on a screen for English & Greek So it would be nice to offer to let people have a San serif font, or to let them pick any font they want.

Note: We do NOT want to offer to change the Hebrew font because very few get the Furtive Patach conrrect

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DavidIB commented 2 years ago

Patrick, can you remember what aspect of Greek caused problems? - eg iota subscript? Or combinations of accents s diaresis?

On Fri, 20 May 2022, 7:52 pm Patrick Tang, @.***> wrote:

Darcy and I tried other Greek font but it did not work for some systems. I think the ascent did not work well on some systems.

The font we use have to be downloaded from www.STEPBible.org to the user’s browser. We need to find a Greek font which will work for all systems.

Does anyone know which Greek font will work on all systems (computers, Android and IPhone)?

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 2:23 AM David Instone-Brewer < @.***> wrote:

Someone commented ( at

https://stepweb.atlassian.net/browse/FST-2034?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiMzlkNmZiMDdiMWVjNDE4ZmFlMWVlYjExZGEyNTA0OWIiLCJwIjoiaiJ9 ) that a San Serif font such as Segoe UI is much clearer to read on a screen for English & Greek So it would be nice to offer to let people have a San serif font, or to let them pick any font they want.

Note: We do NOT want to offer to change the Hebrew font because very few get the Furtive Patach conrrect

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RyanQuey commented 1 year ago

I'd be interested in this as well, it could help for foreign languages where Times New Roman doesn't look very good (e.g., for Khmer the Times New Roman defaults to an unattractive font).