I was struggling with Greek text until the latest snapshot. Greek is more western than not, though.
Stelios At 03:11 09/03/2009, you wrote: >On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Martin Budaj <m.budaj at gmail.com> wrote: > > It should work with the new font setup (you need latest snapshot). You > > just need to set pdf-fonts in therion.ini file (search thbook for > > pdf-fonts keyword) to reference Chinese fonts (you can enter the same > > font name for all styles). > >It works !! I was expecting this to be difficult, but it just works >(on Win32, I'll try on my Linux system later). > >However, while all Chinese fonts contain western characters, it' not >unusual for the typography to suck when using western characters from >a Chinese font. Thus, if I specify that Therion should use a Chinese >font for all typefaces (<rm>, <it>, <bf>, <ss> and <si>), it means >that I will likely get ugly text for things that are in western >script. Of course, I can mark all Chinese text as, say <rm>, and >specify a Chinese font only for that style, but that means the <rm> >style is no longer available for use for western text. > >Ideally I'd like to do something like: > ><rm>This is western text in a Roman font <ss>This is western text in a >Sans-Serif font <rm lang=zh>[This is Chinese text in a Song font] <ss >lang=zh>[This is Chinese text in a Hei font] > >... and specify fonts per language. Then it could be possible to have >multilingual Therion source files, and to choose the output language >in the thconfig file. > >In fact, for a Chinese user (I don't think there are any yet), <rm>, ><it>, <bf>, <ss> and <si> mightn't make a whole lots of sense anyway; >while Hei script is kind of like sans-serif and Song is similarly a >bit like using a serif font, italics and boldface aren't really used >in Chinese. Probably there are similar issues in other languages. >Maybe it would make more sense (and be more generally applicable) to >specify fonts according to use, ie, label, comment, title, with >variants for emphasis, etc, and allow the user to specify an >appropriate font for each? > >Does anyone else use Therion in either a multilingual environment or >with a non-western language? > >Duncan. >_______________________________________________ >Therion mailing list >Therion at speleo.sk >http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion
