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>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 (!)
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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


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Dr. Jorg Waltje                         Dept. of Romance Languages
Language Technology Coordinator         Peters Hall 308
Ohio 5/Oberlin College                  Oberlin, OH 44074
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