Sunday, 16 December 2012

Greek Text

At last I have got a decent display of Greek text in NetSurf,
I did it by TTF2Fing the DejaVuSans/ttf font that I found in
!Boot.Resources.!UnixFont.truetype.ttf-dejavu on my Iyonix
and putting it in !Boot.Resources.!Fonts. To get a decent display
on the Raspberry Pi I had also to remove from !Fonts the fonts
Cabin, Exo, Fanwood, FanwoodText, Roboto and RobotoCond.
I know that Exo has a slightly broken Greek font and it may be that
the others are OK, but for the moment I shall take a rest from
testing.

It would be nice to have a tool to split up big unicode fonts into
smaller fonts, so that a mistake in one glyph or glyph-encoding
does not mean having to jettison all the rest. I must confess that I
find the whole font business very Heath-Robinson. No doubt there are
good historical reasons for that.

--
Gavin Wraith (gavin@wra1th.plus.com)
Home page: http://www.wra1th.plus.com/

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