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Phonetic description

Postby Bruno » Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:31 am

Hello,

... I'm a new member and I've got a problem there.
The phonetic description is not displayed correctly, several letters are missing, are displayed as black bars.

Goldendict portable 1.0.1
OS: Windows XP

I tried to use the .css file but it won't work with me.

But it is strange if I copy a phonetic description from GD to MS Word the complete phonetics including the missing letters are displayed correctly.
That's why I think no font is missing.

Moreover I've got another PC with Windows 7. The phonetics are displayed correctly there too.

What's my problem?

Thanks

Bruno from Germany
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Novikov » Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:36 am

Hello, Bruno. I think it's something with the installed fonts on your PC.
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Bruno » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:48 am

Novikov wrote:Hello, Bruno. I think it's something with the installed fonts on your PC.


Hello Novikov, thanks for your answer.

... like I said it works with Windows 7, but not with Windows XP. I tried another PC with XP, same here.

Bye
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Novikov » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:10 am

Yep, looks like XP lacks the necessary fonts available in Win 7. I'd try copying fonts from Win 7 to XP. But not just copying the files. Take the font files from Win 7 folder and install (not just copy) them to XP.
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Bruno » Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:57 am

Novikov wrote:Yep, looks like XP lacks the necessary fonts available in Win 7. I'd try copying fonts from Win 7 to XP. But not just copying the files. Take the font files from Win 7 folder and install (not just copy) them to XP.


Hello Novikov,

... I've done this already. Same Result.

But it is strange if I copy a phonetic description from GD to MS Word the complete phonetics including the missing letters are displayed correctly.
That's why I think no font is missing.

Bruno
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Novikov » Thu Feb 16, 2012 8:39 am

Okay, let's take a closer look.

Try creating article-style.css in the proper directory and put the following code in it:

Code: Select all
body {
    background: #FFFFCC;
    font-family: "Georgia";   
}


Then launch GD.

If the background changes -- the CSS works. Then look at the transcription and tell me if it's ok or not.

You can also try

Code: Select all
body {
    background: #FFFFCC;
    font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";   
}
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Bruno » Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:46 am

Novikov wrote:Okay, let's take a closer look.

Try creating article-style.css in the proper directory and put the following code in it:

body {
background: #FFFFCC;
font-family: "Georgia";
}

Then launch GD.

If the background changes -- the CSS works. Then look at the transcription and tell me if it's ok or not.

You can also try

body {
background: #FFFFCC;
font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";
}


Hi Novikov,

... it works.
Thanks.

Bruno :D
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Novikov » Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:35 pm

That was the font after all :-) Which one is working now?

By the way, you can adjust the line-height via CSS. I'd recommend 1.3 -- 1.5, this makes the text much more readable. And try some new Win 7 fonts, such as Calibri. They were created specially for increased screen readability.
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Bruno » Thu Feb 16, 2012 4:55 pm

Novikov wrote:That was the font after all :-) Which one is working now?

By the way, you can adjust the line-height via CSS. I recommend 1.3 -- 1.5, this makes text much more readable. And try some new Win 7 fonts, such as Calibri. They were created specially for increased screen readability.


Hi Novikov,

... Arial Unicode MS is working just fine.
Please post the css to make text more readable.

Bruno

P.s. where are you from?
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Re: Phonetic description

Postby Novikov » Thu Feb 16, 2012 5:25 pm

Hi, Bruno.

Try this one:

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body {
    background: #FFFBF9;
    font-family: "Georgia";   
    line-height: 1.5;
    font-size: .9em;
}
.gdfromprefix {
    display: none;
}

.gddictname {
    border: none;
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    font-size: 1em;
    color: #DDDCCC;
    width: 50%;
    font-style: italic;
    text-align: right;
    float: right;
    -webkit-user-select: none;
    user-select: none;
    cursor: default;
}

.gdarticleseparator {
    display: block;
    border-top: #CCC solid 1px;
    margin-bottom: 1em;
    margin-top: 3em;
}

.gdarticle {
    margin-top: 1em;
}


Don't hesitate to experiment with font-size or line-height or whatever you want :-)

--
I'm from Russia. By the way, I'm working on a new readable and good-looking CSS, here is what I've already done:

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