[Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

Tue Apr 5 10:05:50 BST 2011

None. It will load the resources.swf it finds. The default one is empty. If you compile one yourself, it will use that, but you need to set the default font in the styles / properties to the one you've embedded.

You can include as many fonts as you like, but the resources.swf will get big, and will decrease start up time. It has to load before the engine can load and parse the xml.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 05 April 2011 10:02
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

If you replace resources.swf with your own - what rules are there to follow? 

I am thinking for people who might need different fonts to support more diverse UK languages (gujerati, urdu, Cyrillic fonts?) amongst userbases?

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 05 April 2011 09:53
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

There is some serious voodoo in doing that: it's the same process for loading up resources.swf. That would be one way to go. Compile a resources.swf with the font in you want to include, and then modify the template to load that as the default font.

I have a suspicion you won't find a font with all the glyphs in you need. Play around with standalone Xerte until you think you've got a solution.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick Lockley
Sent: 05 April 2011 09:50
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

Can you hardcode the glyphs into a swf and load them into a XOT piece?

That’s not a question to you, more a too the list thought out load

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
Sent: 05 April 2011 09:32
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT

But all the characters appear normally in emails, web pages, etc...

On 5 April 2011 08:16, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> you'll need a font with the characters in it on the end user's system.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne [simonbarne at gmail.com]
> Sent: 04 April 2011 17:55
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>
> Thank you both for your help. Some characters appear OK after pasting - e.g. ŋæəθð - but most - e.g. ʌʊɪʃʒʤʧɒʤʧ - appear only as little empty squares.
>
> Paul's line works fine in desktop Xerte but not in Toolkits, where it appears as code, with the curly brackets showing, etc.
>
> Any more ideas?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 04 April 2011 5:09 PM
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>
> If you can copy and apste the caharcetr from somewhere, it should work:
>
> Try this one:
>
> (c)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
> Sent: 04 April 2011 17:08
> To: 'Xerte discussion list'
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>
> None of these methods seem to work, I'm afraid. It is Toolkits I am using.
> Is that the reason?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Paul Swanson
> Sent: 04 April 2011 4:36 PM
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> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>
> It's got to be in an expression, I think:
>
> {'Here is some plain text with this \u2192 Unicode in it.'}
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 8:15 AM
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> Or paste in the character itself from somewhere?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
>> Sent: 04 April 2011 15:59
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> Dunno it ought to work. Try escaping the \ like \\u
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>> Sent: 04 April 2011 15:51
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Special characters in XOT
>>
>> If I put that in a XOT text box, I just get \uAABBCCDD. Something
>> you're not telling me?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4 April 2011 15:00, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
>> > They should work, yes, \uAABBCCDD
>> >
>> > ?
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-
>> bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Barne
>> > Sent: 04 April 2011 11:34
>> > To: xerte
>> > Subject: [Xerte] Special characters in XOT
>> >
>> > Is there any way of using special (Unicode?) characters in Xerte? I
>> > would like to use the IPA symbols for transcribing pronunciation,
>> such
>> > as the schwa.
>> >
>
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