Font selection for "language" [Wishlist]

[fast_rizwaan]

Please allow language based fonts to be specified.

For urdu language, i'd like to use nafees.ttf (as default urdu font does not render characters properly)
for hindi, I'd like to use gurumaa.ttf
for telugu, i'd like to use pothana.ttf.

mdic and some other qt based softwares gives the language->font option. Please consider it. thanks.

[fast_rizwaan]

the urdu font can be downloaded from
http://alvi.urdushare.net/blog/200811/d ... nastaleeq/

the dns may wrongly say attack site. but it is harmless site.

http://alvi.urdushare.net/blog/wp-conte ... d.php?id=1

[ikm]

You can change the font. Search for article-style.css in this forum. Granted, this is low-level, but it gets the job done.

[fast_rizwaan]

You can change the font. Search for article-style.css in this forum. Granted, this is low-level, but it gets the job done.

the search system (bug) doesn't support "-" and "." it seems; searching for "article-style.css" will not get anything. but searching for "article style css" gets me some results.

seeing the .css code you've said to give font list; but the font is still not used by the "urdu language text" but it is used by "English" text
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cat ~/.goldendict/article-style.css

Code: Select all

body
{
  font-family: "Alvi Nastaleeq";
}


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please give me the article-style.css, which really works with urdu/arabic text parts. I would really appreciate your help. please, the incorrect font rendering is stopping/annoying my work for goldendict and urdu language.

[ikm]

Actually, it looks that it's the encoding that's is incorrect, not the font. Which dictionary is that?

[fast_rizwaan]

Actually, it looks that it's the encoding that's is incorrect, not the font. Which dictionary is that?

english to urdu lughat(dictionary)
http://www.mediafire.com/?meiwjdnwgzm

english to urdu dictionary
http://www.mediafire.com/?ynzyyyyktry

Urdu, farsi, sindhi, are like arabic with extra characters. the arabic font dictionary/qt/kde is used by qt/kde for RTL (right-to-left) languages, i presume.

[fast_rizwaan]

please provide "failsafe" font option for non-standard encodings.Arial Unicode MS is really nice font for all other encodings.

I wish that goldendict should allow each "dictionary" database with individual fonts:

1. Font for Contents_language
2. Font for Index_language

or at least support "[font] [/font]" html tag in goldendict, so that i could add the font information there itself...

Why should we not have GDS (Golden Dictionary Source format) based on XDXF+ DSL + HTML formatting???

[fast_rizwaan]

Hi ikm,

To get the "Alvi nastaleeq" font visible throughout QT and KDE apps, I've deleted all fonts with arabic encodings, and left only "Alvi Nastaleeq.ttf"; which kind-of forced "QT" and "KDE" to use "Alvi Nastaleeq" font for arabic encoding! please see:

after deleting all arabic based fonts, i could get Urdu font Alvi-nastaleeq working with golden dictionary.

urdu-font-issue.jpeg (109.56 KiB) Viewed 20086 times

MDic (MDictionary) mdic.sf.net or http://mdic.gnufolks.org/, which is a QT4 only dictionary has this "Font selection for Writing Language" please see the attachments...

mdic which is a qt4 gpl3 dictionary, has this nice feature of 'choosing font for writing system/languages'

mdic-language-based-font-selection.jpeg (111.42 KiB) Viewed 20082 times

MDic developer, created mdic for his own use, hence he is not at all concerned with improving his software with features and all... Hence, it seems a ancient software... The only good feature is the "font selection dialog for different languages"

Whereas, Our Golden Dictionary, has all the nice features, It would really, really help people with "font rendering issues" to benefit from the "language based font selection dialog"

There are 2 inconveniences, in golden dictionary for non-native languages (and fonts) with rendering.

1. QT will randomly choose the "Worst" font for the language text.
2. Font size can not be changed. e.g., "alvi nastaleeq" font has small glyph for each character. so, increasing the font size upto 20+ is a must. but QT/KDE does not provide such options. hence, a big inconvenience to the user.

alvi-nastaleeq urdu font very small at 100%

urdu-font-very-small.jpeg (66.51 KiB) Viewed 20080 times

IKM, if you could kindly add the "language font selection dialog", i and users (who need to use non-standard language databases in goldendict) of goldendict will be very thankful to you.

[ikm]

I've added some special HTML attributes to the articles, so their fonts can now be customized based on their languages. For now, this can only be done in a text editor. I've started the FAQ on GD and added this question and its answer. Please support GD by adding any other questions you know about and answers there.