[etoys-dev] Re: Etoys new fonts

[Ricardo Moran]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I noticed a couple of problems:
>  1) project title in ToolBar corrupts
>  2) string of icon of TextMorph in ToolBin and ObjectCatalog corrupts.
>       The morph actually dragged from them still corrupts
>
> I think I know the source of them;
> Default font of TextMorph is VeraSans that is not for Japanese.
> But traditionally we see Japanese string shown correctly even with
> such settings because of fallback to "default (Japanese) font".  I
> believe we still need such functionality.
>

Thanks for finding these issues. I believe you're right, and I think we
should make one set of fallback fonts and all the fonts in the image should
point to that set. I only changed the "defaultFont" and the "standardEToysFont"
because I thought it would be enough, but I guess I was wrong.


>
> BTW, when the initialization (#installFamilyNamed:, etc) will be
> executed, building time or changing locale?
>

I think it would be building time.

Richo


>
>
> /Korakurider
>
> > I would prefer changing TTFileDescription because the default directory
> is
> > more easily accesible by the users than the image directory and we do not
> > want the fonts to get lost due to an user's mistake.
> >
> > Richo
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Mmm... I think this may be related with my last commit. I tried to fix a
> >> bug yesterday which caused an emergency evaluator to show up when
> changing
> >> the locale to japanese or korean without initializing the fonts
> correctly.
> >> Maybe I screwed up there...
> >>
> >> Anyway, I will try this again with a clean image. Updating still works,
> >> right?
> >>
> >> Thanks for testing this!
> >> Richo
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 4:07 AM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Hi, I managed to use the new fonts depending on the locale selected.
> >>> > To test it, update your image, extract the new fonts into the fonts
> >>> > directory (you can download them
> >>> > from http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/gsoc/new-etoys-fonts.zip),
> execute:
> >>> > TTFileDescription
> >>> > installFamilyNamed: 'Mona';
> >>> > installFamilyNamed: 'UnBatang';
> >>> > installFamilyNamed: 'UnDotum';
> >>> > installFamilyNamed: 'DejaVu LGC Sans';
> >>> > installFamilyNamed: 'DejaVu LGC Serif';
> >>> > installFamilyNamed: 'DejaVu LGC Sans Mono'.
> >>> > and then execute:
> >>> >
> >>> > TTCFont registerAll.
> >>> > latinFont := TTCFont familyName: 'DejaVu LGC Sans' pointSize: 15
> >>> > emphasis:
> >>> > 0.
> >>> > japaneseFont := TTCFont familyName: 'Mona' pointSize: 15 emphasis: 0.
> >>> > koreanFont := TTCFont familyName: 'UnDotum' pointSize: 16 emphasis:
> 0.
> >>> > newFontArray := Array new: 14.
> >>> > newFontArray at: 1 put: latinFont.
> >>> > newFontArray at: 6 put: japaneseFont.
> >>> > newFontArray at: 8 put: koreanFont.
> >>> > newFontSet := TTCFontSet newFontArray: newFontArray.
> >>> > TextStyle defaultFont fallbackFont: newFontSet.
> >>> > Preferences standardEToysFont fallbackFont: newFontSet.
> >>>
> >>> I tried above but Etoys died with LowSpaceDebug.log (attached) after
> >>> looong wait.
> >>> I tested it on WinXP box with >2GB RAM.
> >>> Does anyone have clue about this?
> >>>
> >>> /Korakurider
> >>>
> >>> > Now when you change your locale to japanese or korean it will use the
> >>> > new
> >>> > ttf files.
> >>> > We should now decide which fonts to include for chinese, greek,
> >>> > arabian,
> >>> > russian, and so on.
> >>> > Cheers
> >>> > Richo
> >>> >
> >>> > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Ricardo Moran <richi.moran at gmail.com
> >
> >>> > wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> Hi, I've been testing Andreas code with the DejaVu, Mona, UnDotum,
> and
> >>> >> UnBatang fonts. You can install them by copying the .ttf files in
> the
> >>> >> font
> >>> >> directory and executing the following code (make sure you have an
> >>> >> updated
> >>> >> image):
> >>> >> TTFileDescription
> >>> >> installFamilyNamed: 'Mona';
> >>> >> installFamilyNamed: 'UnBatang';
> >>> >> installFamilyNamed: 'UnDotum';
> >>> >> installFamilyNamed: 'DejaVu LGC Sans';
> >>> >> installFamilyNamed: 'DejaVu LGC Serif';
> >>> >> installFamilyNamed: 'DejaVu LGC Sans Mono'
> >>> >> For convenience, I uploaded the fonts
> >>> >> to http://tecnodacta.com.ar/gira/gsoc/new-etoys-fonts.zip. The size
> is
> >>> >> 11.1
> >>> >> MB.
> >>> >> I haven't managed to link these fonts with the LanguageEnvironment
> (so
> >>> >> that Mona would be the default font when you're using the japanese
> >>> >> locale,
> >>> >> or UnDotum for the korean) but I'm looking into that.
> >>> >> Cheers
> >>> >> Richo
> >>> >
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