Hi Brian,
Thank you- it worked.
I am very aware that Legacy does not work with Eastern European special
characteristics or diacritics. It is my only gripe with Legacy which appears
to be the best genealogy program in every other way.
For now at least, I can use Sylfaen font with English words. When I am about
publish my book, I will have to save it as Word document, then painstakingly
search and replace all “English spellings” of the Eastern European names of
people and places, with the correct spellings. At least a suitable font will
be ready to go. Sylfaen does diacritics beautifully.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian L. Lightfoot
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2016 3:28 AM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] add font to Legacy?
I hit the send button too quick and meant to include a precautionary
statement at the end. When Brian with Customer Support says Legacy does not
support the Eastern European character sets, he means just that. Thus, if
you force Legacy to use one such font, then there is no guarantee exactly
what may happen on display, printed output, formatting, etc. Let the user
beware. I was merely pointing out a way to allow the user to look at such
fonts and test them out on their own.
Brian in CA
-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Brian L. Lightfoot
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:24 AM
To: 'Legacy User Group'
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] add font to Legacy?
Upon further review, the ruling on the field is reversed. The Sylfaen font
can indeed be used with Legacy. It all depends upon the language setting
within Windows (not everybody in the world uses English as their primary
language).
There are one or two minor things that the user needs to have set in their
Windows Control Panel. Within Windows 7 (not sure if Win10 is the same
procedure but probably similar), go to Control Panel, Appearance and
Personalization (if viewing the Category method), Fonts, and then Font
Settings. In that window, click on the box to remove the checkmark from
"Hide fonts based on language settings". Restart Legacy and the Sylfaen font
appears in the drop down lists within Legacy's customization choices.
As Brian with Customer Support mentioned, this font is based on a different
language other than English. If the user changed their language setting of
Windows from the Control Panel to something other than English, then the
Sylfaen font would automatically appear depending upon which language was
chosen that supported that font.
BTW, I tried just the method of un-hiding all fonts, then selected Sylfaen
without changing my English language settings, and then within Legacy
selected Sylfaen and it all seems to look just fine. To me, it's merely
another serif based font similar to Times New Roman.
Hope that helps.
Brian in CA
-----Original Message-----
From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On
Behalf Of Brian/Support
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:27 AM
To: Legacy User Group
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] add font to Legacy?
After my last message I went looking in my Windows and discovered that
Sylfaen font is a standard Windows font. The Sylfaen font is used for
Cyrillic, Greek and Eastern European languages, Legacy does not support the
Eastern European character sets though so I will have to change my answer to
No, you cannot add the Sylfaen font to Legacy.
Brian
Customer Support
Millennia Corporation
br...@legacyfamilytree.com
http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com
On 17-May-16 11:09 PM, johnbernac...@iprimus.com.au wrote:
Is there a way to add the "Sylfaen" font to the Legacy fonts?
John
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