Hoi,
Downloadable fonts have a much bigger application. Many of the African
Wikipedias languish because of a lack of support for extended Latin
characters. The people from ANLOC are happy to help us assess where
MediaWiki does not support these languages. This does affect whole wikis and
it is one technical reason that can be solved why many of our African
projects languish.
Thanks,
GerardM
http://www.africanlocalisation.net/
2009/7/16 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> I am proofreading Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar [1] on the English Wikisource.
>
> It uses intricate formatting and for proper display of Biblical Hebrew it
> needs a font which isn't installed on most people's computers. Fortunately,
> this font, called Ezra SIL SR, is Free Software, released under the Open
> Font License.[2]
>
> Some modern browsers, such as Firefox 3.5 are able to render downloadable
> fonts in a way that is consistent with draft CSS 3 standard. Would it be
> possible to upload such a free font to Wikimedia servers and let people who
> use modern browsers, but don't have the font on their computer, enjoy the
> book with proper fonts without bothering with installing new fonts?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> [1] (
>
> http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:Gesenius%27_Hebrew_Grammar_%281910_Kautzsch-Cowley_edition%29.djvu
> )
> [2] (
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=silhebrunic2 )
>
> --
> Amir Elisha Aharoni
>
> http://aharoni.wordpress.com
>
> "We're living in pieces,
> I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
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