[Therion] Hindi font in Therion label or header text string

[Martin Budaj]

There is no support for switching the scripts manually, but unicode fonts
containing Hindi usually contain also Latin characters. Just use unicode
font and mix the scripts freely :)
M.

On Sun, Dec 1, 2024, 20:44 Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote:

> Thanks Martin
>
> So without actually trying that, is it possible to have multiple script
> systems (beyond the 5 <ss> <it> etc variations) in play at once? ie the
> latin/roman I am typing this message in and Hindi script system? लघु
>
> And if so, how do we choose which is in use, or switch script system
> mid-string, since Hindi is not a language Therion has ‘built in’, so
> presumably <lang:hi> might not work?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> PS: I did find this post which might be helpful to me down the track
> https://www.mail-archive.com/therion@speleo.sk/msg09123.html
>
>
>
> *From:* Therion <therion-bounces at speleo.sk> *On Behalf Of *Martin Budaj
> *Sent:* Monday, 2 December 2024 07:24
> *To:* List for Therion users <therion at speleo.sk>
> *Subject:* Re: [Therion] Hindi font in Therion label or header text string
>
>
>
> It should work if you set up ttf/otf fonts  covering Hindi in therion.ini
> using "pdf-fonts" keyword.
>
> M.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2024, 05:02 Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz> wrote:
>
> Just curious if it is (easily) possible to include fonts/special
> characters from languages not supported by Therion.
>
> It may be written in the documentation, but regarding fonts I’m naïve and
> inexperienced :)
>
> I want to write लघु (ie laghu, means small in Hindi) in a map header
> along with some English text.
>
> My backup strategy is to include a bitmap as a map-image.
>
>  Thanks
>
> Bruce
>
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