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Bert,
Do you use Firefox? If so, and if the problem just appears on webpages, you can make the font bigger by holding down the ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel. I use this all the time because I often encounter pages where the type is very small.
Ed
Do you use Firefox? If so, and if the problem just appears on webpages, you can make the font bigger by holding down the ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel. I use this all the time because I often encounter pages where the type is very small.
Ed
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G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library
G'Oogle and the Internet Pharrchive - 1100 or so free Latin and Greek books.
DownLOEBables - Free books from the Loeb Classical Library
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I would like to know why Textkit picks up Gentium automatically, too. The tip Ed gave is a good workaround, but I would like to fix it once and for all.Bert wrote:I don't know why it takes Gentium automatically.
I just set a preference in my browser to never go below font size 12. That helps a bit.
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When I helped Jeff with enabling Unicode, I provided for post contents this CSS font-family tag -perispomenon wrote:I would like to know why Textkit picks up Gentium automatically, too. The tip Ed gave is a good workaround, but I would like to fix it once and for all.Bert wrote:I don't know why it takes Gentium automatically.
font-family: arial unicode ms, gentium, palatino linotype, georgia greek, cardo, galilee unicode gk, vusillus old face italic, Doulos SIL, Arial, Helvetica, serif;
Thus, if your browser is configured NOT to ignore web page fonts, i.e., it will honor the CSS values, then it will render our posts using the first font (reading from left to right) that it finds on your system.
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Thanks for the info. Now I have to try and find a way to tell my browser (Safari) that. If any Mac user already knows? The Safari Help and Google didn't turn up anything (yet).Paul wrote:Thus, if your browser is configured NOT to ignore web page fonts, i.e., it will honor the CSS values, then it will render our posts using the first font (reading from left to right) that it finds on your system.
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Try this in Firefox (I am using 2.0.0.2):
a. Tools -> Options
b. in the resulting dialog, click the 'advanced' button in the middle fieldset entitled 'fonts and colors'
c. ensure that the checkbox labelled 'allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above' is checked
d. OK-button your way out of the dialogs
This approach should allow the aforementioned CSS settings (with Arial Unicode MS first) to govern.
Let me know if this doesn't help.
Cordially,
Paul
P.S. - when you say "it doesn't seem to be working for me," what are the phenomena; what do you see?
a. Tools -> Options
b. in the resulting dialog, click the 'advanced' button in the middle fieldset entitled 'fonts and colors'
c. ensure that the checkbox labelled 'allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above' is checked
d. OK-button your way out of the dialogs
This approach should allow the aforementioned CSS settings (with Arial Unicode MS first) to govern.
Let me know if this doesn't help.
Cordially,
Paul
P.S. - when you say "it doesn't seem to be working for me," what are the phenomena; what do you see?
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that box is already checked...Paul wrote:Try this in Firefox (I am using 2.0.0.2):
a. Tools -> Options
b. in the resulting dialog, click the 'advanced' button in the middle fieldset entitled 'fonts and colors'
c. ensure that the checkbox labelled 'allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above' is checked
d. OK-button your way out of the dialogs
This approach should allow the aforementioned CSS settings (with Arial Unicode MS first) to govern.
Let me know if this doesn't help.
Cordially,
Paul
P.S. - when you say "it doesn't seem to be working for me," what are the phenomena; what do you see?
i see tiny, courier font. really hard to read.
First say to yourself what you would be; then do what you need to do. ~Epictetus
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As a Mac user, I find that if I don't use Lucida Grande, Polytonic Greek will not display properly. I've tried all the (dozens of) other fonts that came with OS X, and using any other one, I always get the dreaded boxes. Which is too bad, because Lucida Grande is a sans-serif font I'm not crazy about in Roman.Chris Weimer wrote:Do you not have Arial Unicode MS installed? It's a nifty little font and I recommend it.
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Klewlis,
Can we try another approach? Let's prevent web pages from specifying their own fonts and, instead, try to force a font of our choice. Thus, in 2.0.0.3:
1. Tools -> Options -> Content
2. Click Advanced under Fonts & Colors
3. UNcheck the box labelled "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above."
4. In the topmost fieldset labelled "Fonts for" against the select list labelled "Proportional" choose "Sans Serif"
5. In the same fieldset against the select list labelled "Sans-serif" choose, say, Arial Unicode MS, or another Greek-capable font.
6. If need be, adjust "Minimum font size" as well
7. OK your way out of the dialogs.
Let me know if this helps.
Cordially,
Paul
Can we try another approach? Let's prevent web pages from specifying their own fonts and, instead, try to force a font of our choice. Thus, in 2.0.0.3:
1. Tools -> Options -> Content
2. Click Advanced under Fonts & Colors
3. UNcheck the box labelled "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above."
4. In the topmost fieldset labelled "Fonts for" against the select list labelled "Proportional" choose "Sans Serif"
5. In the same fieldset against the select list labelled "Sans-serif" choose, say, Arial Unicode MS, or another Greek-capable font.
6. If need be, adjust "Minimum font size" as well
7. OK your way out of the dialogs.
Let me know if this helps.
Cordially,
Paul
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