[logon] [incr tsdb()] GUI updates

[Emily M. Bender]

Hi Francis,

Did you get a chance to try this out again, and did
you have any luck?

Thanks,
Emily

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Francis Bond <fcbond at gmail.com> wrote:
> G'day,
>
> Closer and closer.
>
> 2009/4/18 Stephan Oepen <oe at ifi.uio.no>:
>>> Korean still doesn't work but seems closer.  Instead of nothing at
>>> all, I get red boxes for the characters.
>>> I tried with the following in my .swishrc (following advice on the web
>>> for displaying Korean).
>>> set font {"Baekmuk Dotum" 13 bold}
>>
>> have you tried without any custom settings?  without doing anything in
>> my `.podiumrc' (and with no `.swishrc'), i imported both a thai and a
>> korean file (both encoded in UTF-8) via `File | Import | Test Items'.
>> i then did `File | Reread' (owed to a post-import snag), followed by
>> `Browse | Test Items'.  the results seems okay to me; see attachment?
>
> Your attachment looks good (for Korean anyway, it looks as though Thai
> isn't composing the characters properly, although I suspect this is
> enough to be readable).  I imported a new Korean file, just in case
> there was something wrong with the old one.  It had the same problem.
> Maybe we have different fonts available?  I am testing on Ubuntu
> 8.04.2 now.  I will try 8.10 at work.
>
>>> I suspect the font used for displaying text (e.g. in browse items) is
>>> hard-wired somewhere, but wasn't able to quickly work it out.
>>> If someone tells me where it is defined, I will change it by hand and
>>> retest.  Do I then need to recompile, or is that bit interpreted?
>>
>> font settings are in `podium.tcl', which is read when the [incr tsdb()]
>> podium window is created, i.e. for testing it should suffice to run
>>
>>  (tsdb :podium)
>>
>> after making changes to that file.  but, ideally, i think there should
>> be no need for local customization.  Tk is supposed to do all the font
>> selection (a lot like Pango i think).
>
> That would be best of course.  I'll  see if Sanghoun and I can get
> some joy on Monday.
>
> --
> Francis Bond <http://www2.nict.go.jp/x/x161/en/member/bond/>
> NICT Language Infrastructure Group
>
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