From: Edward H. Trager (ehtrager@umich.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 17:02:26 CST
On Sunday 2004.11.21 14:38:09 +0000, Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 21/11/2004 00:05, Edward H. Trager wrote:
>
> >...
> >
> > A better CSS class would additionally specify the font-family,
> > for example, something like the SIL Ezra font
> > (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=EzraSIL_Home
> >
> >(4) Since your readers may not have certain fonts, In the case of legally
> > downloadable fonts like SIL Ezra, I would definitely put a link to the
> > download site so readers can download the (Hebrew) fonts if they need
> > it to view
> > your page.
> >
> >
>
> Please don't use SIL Ezra for such purposes, which is a legacy encoded
> and visually ordered Hebrew font, and is not rendered correctly in IE6.
> Instead, please use Ezra SIL, which is basically the same outlines but
> properly Unicode encoded. The URL given is for Ezra SIL, and it is a
> free download.
Are you saying the difference in names is "SIL Ezra" vs. "Ezra SIL" ?
That's too confusing!
When I gave the URL, I checked that it was referring
to an "OpenType" font --and since it was OpenType, I assumed that it was the
newer version with a Unicode CMAP. If SIL still has links to legacy non-Unicode
versions of fonts which now also have Unicode versions, then they should make
this really clear to people. My apologies if I provided the wrong URL.
>
> By the way, this font mostly works fine with any Windows (95+) system.
> Office 2003 is required only for ideal placement of certain accents etc.
>
>
> --
> Peter Kirk
> peter@qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk@qaya.org (work)
> http://www.qaya.org/
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