https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31889
--- Comment #5 from Santhosh Thottingal <[email protected]> 2011-10-26 16:45:45 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > What's the benefit of adding more fonts here? Are they supposed to be > alternate > selections for body text, or are they supposed to get mapped to some specific > uses? In general simply adding more choices for body text probably isn't a > good > idea as it complicates things for little clear benefit. Each of them mapped to specific users and specific requirements for the language. Many languages have different fonts to address different writing styles, And there is a preference for certain writing style for users. For example, in Malayalam, there are 2 writing styles, one with vowel signs always forming a single glyph, and one with simplified writing style where vowel signs are always separate glyphs. That is the reason for the UI to allow users to select font according to their writing style. For Hebrew, there are fonts with diacritics marks and without them, and both of them are used according to user preference, Sometimes there are text, that must be shown with a specific font to illustrate something. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
