TT,
It would be interesting to look at a selective font, as a last resort, that
we could embed in tiddlywiki with only the symbols we need. I have seen
font builders around but it remains a bit of a dark art to me. Most users
such as myself have most of the Unicode covered (as I use Windows 10) so a
local font is likely to satisfy the requirements. I would be surprised if
any would have to revert to the last resort font if we choose the fonts
correctly (or check the existing ones)
However I am not sure this is needed.
Font Family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica,
Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"
Code Font Family: "SFMono-Regular",Consolas,"Liberation
Mono",Menlo,Courier,monospace
- Then inside $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla/base we see different font
family provided to different html elements. So in the development process
some recommendations have being followed or some serious analysis of fonts
generally available have being selected.
- Perhaps we can find some updated recommendations that include the
additional character sets we need for all platforms.
- In the above we may need to extend the Code Font Family.
- If necessary we can just add via an additional stylesheet.
- As I understand this we are listing fonts to use "if they exist
locally" and if they do not it reverts to the next best (using some details
of the fonts available)
- When using customise we need to see our glyphs, and they do not appear
in the output, So a Tiddlywiki delivered to an audience that is not reading
the code it would not matter if no font exists for those Unicodes, the
customise should still work even without font glyphs available.
The thing I find frustrating is fonts seem not to document the "code pages"
they include. There must be Unicode rich ones available for linux and
apple and other devices as there is for Windows.
Tones
On Thursday, 26 November 2020 at 21:52:56 UTC+11 @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
> *Font-ish Thoughts ... *
>
> Ciao TonyM & PMario
>
> TonyM wrote:
>
>> What I did discover is the following
>> <https://keyboard.cool/db/enclosed-alphanumeric-supplement/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-a>
>> includes
>> the letter symbols 🄐 - 🄩 and other sets. Some of which will show a color
>> icon with the right fonts
>> [image: Snag_2a82c66a.png]
>> My thought is what if the glyphs available are from a set that an
>> (optional) web font presents in an enhanced color form. Something one could
>> toggle on/off? between plain and coloured.
>> In edit these would be bright and easy to see, but after wikification and
>> when acting as customise symbols they are invisible.
>>
>
> Right. Interesting ideas. If you look back you will see brief discussion
> between me and PMario concerning *ways round the 'local machine' font
> problem*.
>
> I think its worth commenting on some of the options ---
>
> 1 - *Use Web Fonts From Web. *I think PMario would not be too keen on
> this as you'd need to online connect your wiki to a distant server and all
> that involves.
>
> 2 - *Use Web Fonts Once Downloaded. *Many free web fonts can be
> downloaded. DOWNSIDE: adds *a lot *of complexity to set-up.
>
> 3 - *Embed Glyphs in a Custom Font that comes with the plugin*. This
> might be good. ISSUES: What size would it be? Who would have knowledge how
> to make it? And have the time?
>
> Best wishes
> TT
>
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