--- Forwarded Message from Laurel Mittenthal <[log in to unmask]> ---
>Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 15:27:17 -0500
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]>
>From: Laurel Mittenthal <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #4802.1 Using Non-Western Fonts in WYSIWYGs (!)
>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Jorg:
I'm not sure if you're still looking for advice, since I notice your
message dates from last Thursday. But, in case you are, I have found that
using Netscape Page Composer allows you to circumvent the problems you
mention, by allowing you to choose both the font and the encoding in which
you would like a page to appear. I use it to put up web pages in both
Chinese and Russian, without any major problems. I haven't had any success
with the <!-- noedit --> tag in Claris, either.
Please feel free to contact me off-list ( [log in to unmask] ), or
look at my website (on Non-Roman-Font Computing), for more help.
Regards,
Laurel
At 10:52 25.01.99 EST, you wrote:
>>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:14:54 -0500 (EST)
>>From: Jorg Waltje <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: #4802 Using Non-Western Fonts in WYSIWYGs (!)
>>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
<[log in to unmask]>
>Dear Dan (and everybody else):
>
> I read with great interest about your attempts to turn
>non-western fonts into text that can be read by webbrowsers. Here at
>Oberlin and within the Ohio5 consortium we have been struggling with the
>same problem. I went to your website and went through all the steps you
>describe, yet, to no avail. I tried what you describe in PageMill, and
>another program called Pagespinner( which, however, is not WYSIWYG).
>
>I have to point out that the problems we are experiencing seem to be
>generated by our Macintosh computers. Using a font like Bukarist 1251 in
>Netscape composer on a PC worked just fine. However, we are trying to be
>completely dual platform, since the Ohio5 is a collaborative project
>involving both PC and Mac campuses. With Macs, already the text entry
>(for example copying cyrillic text which was generated with a font like
>Bukarist 1251) from Simple Text into PageMill screws everything up, but
>PageMill does not allow to choose a font and then type the text directly
>into the editor.
>
>Although one can copy text into Pagespinner which looks fine in the
>editor, it becomes jibberish when you try the preview, with or w/o
>the <!--noedit--> tags.
>
>I am posting this to the list, since I hope that there are some people out
>there who have experienced the same problems, and, more importantly, have
>managed to solve them.
>
>Any advice will be appreciated! Many thanks in advance.
>
>
> Jorg
>
>Dr. Jorg Waltje Dept. of Romance Languages
>Language Technology Coordinator Peters Hall 308
>Ohio 5/Oberlin College Oberlin, OH 44074
>Ph: (440) 775-6657 Fax (440) 775-6888
>
>website (new & improved!):
>http://www.oberlin.edu/~jwaltje/
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Laurel Mittenthal [log in to unmask]
Foreign Language Computing Specialist
Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services, Harvard University
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~mittenth/home.html
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