ah, now I get your point. I've read your github issue, could you clarify that a little bit so that it's clear what you mean?
BTC Am Sonntag, 11. Februar 2018 19:17:10 UTC+1 schrieb @TiddlyTweeter: > > BTC > > TW does not come with inbuilt fonts (rightly IMO). It just uses the normal > CSS method of a cascade of font-families to ensure there is at least one > basic font on the computer that works. > > Slightly unusual is that the cascade includes the DejaVu font for both > proportional and monospaced fonts. Its good in a way as DejaVu has a very > large character set that covers most languages in Unicode well. But few > people will have that on their computer so can't benefit without > downloading it. > > For some situations additional WebFonts can help. > > For most European situations the TW cascade will activate available fonts > on computer that should suffice. Get beyond Europe and it is another story. > > Josiah > > On Sunday, 11 February 2018 19:03:34 UTC+1, BurningTreeC wrote: >> >> @TiddlyTweeter, >> >> >>> IF possible *emulation of extant keyboard designs would be good*. AltGr >>> & AltGr+Shift would allow that. >>> >>> Of course there is also great option to add a line for items normally >>> under AltGr that could have normal Shift, rather than anything special. >>> >>> *In design terms* on-screen keyboards have a flex physical ones don't. >>> And being able to customise for ones actual usage is brilliant. But >>> matching a physical keyboard a user already understands, however >>> cumbersome, has merit. >>> >>> I agree with you! >> >> About the *fonts*: >> >> As I understand it, the standard fonts list in TiddlyWiki covers some of >> the most commonly used fonts. So every user should already have at least >> one of them installed on its system (knowing or not) so that characters get >> rendered without having to include a font into a TiddlyWiki html file. >> >> The font-stylesheets inside tiddlywiki are for fonts one wants to provide >> to users that possibly don't have them on their computers. Like >> Fontawesome, material icons, special emojis, or just some less-used >> fonttypes. >> >> As far as I know, TW doesn't come with integrated fonts but I could be >> wrong. >> >> >> ------- >> >> for creating a keyboard layout that uses special characters the solution >> would be one of two: >> >> a) searching a font and include it in a stylesheet that users need to >> drag to their wikies >> b) adding informations about which font to install on their system to be >> able to render the characters >> >> I would prefer b) if I'm the user - it keeps the file small - fonts are >> heavy >> >> BTC >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/65afbe60-bb53-4338-b75a-556e53a7e727%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
