[Therion] Chinese characters in Therion.

[Stelios Zacharias]

I was struggling with Greek text until the latest snapshot. Greek is 
more western than not, though.

Stelios


At 03:11 09/03/2009, you wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Martin Budaj <m.budaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It should work with the new font setup (you need latest snapshot). You
> > just need to set pdf-fonts in therion.ini file (search thbook for
> > pdf-fonts keyword) to reference Chinese fonts (you can enter the same
> > font name for all styles).
>
>It works !!  I was expecting this to be difficult, but it just works
>(on Win32, I'll try on my Linux system later).
>
>However, while all Chinese fonts contain western characters, it' not
>unusual for the typography to suck when using western characters from
>a Chinese font.  Thus, if I specify that Therion should use a Chinese
>font for all typefaces (<rm>, <it>, <bf>, <ss> and <si>), it means
>that I will likely get ugly text for things that are in western
>script.  Of course, I can mark all Chinese text as, say <rm>, and
>specify a Chinese font only for that style, but that means the <rm>
>style is no longer available for use for western text.
>
>Ideally I'd like to do something like:
>
><rm>This is western text in a Roman font <ss>This is western text in a
>Sans-Serif font <rm lang=zh>[This is Chinese text in a Song font] <ss
>lang=zh>[This is Chinese text in a Hei font]
>
>... and specify fonts per language. Then it could be possible to have
>multilingual Therion source files, and to choose the output language
>in the thconfig file.
>
>In fact, for a Chinese user (I don't think there are any yet), <rm>,
><it>, <bf>, <ss> and <si> mightn't make a whole lots of sense anyway;
>while Hei script is kind of like sans-serif and Song is similarly a
>bit like using a serif font, italics and boldface aren't really used
>in Chinese.  Probably there are similar issues in other languages.
>Maybe it would make more sense (and be more generally applicable) to
>specify fonts according to use, ie, label, comment, title, with
>variants for emphasis, etc, and allow the user to specify an
>appropriate font for each?
>
>Does anyone else use Therion in either a multilingual environment or
>with a non-western language?
>
>Duncan.
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