Post by Kirk Lowery » Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:04 am
Sorry about the delay in responding. I got caught up in the US Thanksgiving holiday and travel. But I'm back in the saddle again!
In a subsequent post, I will be getting technical and maybe only Jason will care, but I need community feedback as we proceed. So bear with me and skip over the parts you don't understand or don't care about.
Considerations:
- The KISS principle: "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"
- In an ideal world, the forum member should not have to install a particular font. The text should be readable from default fonts available on the three major OS platforms: Windows, OSX (Apple) and Linux.
- The text should render all standard consonants, vowels and diacritics. It should also be large enough that those with eyesight issues can read the Syriac without effort. A larger font size will disturb the line spacing when embedded into English (Latin) text, but that's okay. It's what happens now with the [heb] tag.
- Embedding a Syriac font server side, so that all devices will have access to it, is theoretically possible. That is, I have administrator access to the server as well as to the software that runs our forum. (Which reminds me, I've got a new release of phpBB to install.
). But it will take a bit of research and maybe some expert help to accomplish this. - We need to survey what Syriac fonts are available out there, especially free fonts. Google Noto fonts claim to cover all the Unicode defined Syriac scripts.
Comments or concerns about the above? What have I missed?
My next post will start actual experimentation. This is where I'll want feedback from all of you about its legibility.
Sorry about the delay in responding. I got caught up in the US Thanksgiving holiday and travel. But I'm back in the saddle again! ;)
In a subsequent post, I will be getting technical and maybe only Jason will care, but I need community feedback as we proceed. So bear with me and skip over the parts you don't understand or don't care about.
Considerations:
[list]
[*] The KISS principle: "Keep It Simple, Stupid!"
[*] In an ideal world, the forum member should not have to install a particular font. The text should be readable from default fonts available on the three major OS platforms: Windows, OSX (Apple) and Linux.
[*] The text should render all standard consonants, vowels and diacritics. It should also be large enough that those with eyesight issues can read the Syriac without effort. A larger font size will disturb the line spacing when embedded into English (Latin) text, but that's okay. It's what happens now with the [heb] tag.
[*] Embedding a Syriac font server side, so that all devices will have access to it, is theoretically possible. That is, I have administrator access to the server as well as to the software that runs our forum. (Which reminds me, I've got a new release of phpBB to install. :oops: ). But it will take a bit of research and maybe some expert help to accomplish this.
[*] We need to survey what Syriac fonts are available out there, especially free fonts. [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts#List_of_Noto_fonts]Google Noto fonts[/url] claim to cover all the Unicode defined Syriac scripts.[/list]
Comments or concerns about the above? What have I missed?
My next post will start actual experimentation. This is where I'll want feedback from all of you about its legibility.