Hoi, You can use an existing freely licensed font as a base and only change the characters that need to differ. This is a better approach as it allows for the use of the font in other circumstances as well. Thanks, GerardM
On 29 January 2016 at 13:47, Bojan Jankuloski <bojan.jankulo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Thanks for looking into the matter. We will now contact the leading font > designer in Macedonia, and will consult him about a free font that is > suitable visually, i.e.that does not look that different from the present > italics. > > By the way, can we make only the italics use this font, or is it a > technical necessity that it must affect all text on the wiki? > > Thanks a lot again > Bojan > > On 29 January 2016 at 08:05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hoi, >> The obvious solution is in using fonts that work properly for a language >> as it is possible to use a font based on the language code used for a text >> (standard MediaWiki functionality). >> >> It is therefore only a matter of using the right font and almost >> everything will be good. >> >> The obvious question is, is there a freely licensed font that can be used. >> Thanks, >> GerardM >> >> On 28 January 2016 at 18:32, Bojan Jankuloski <bojan.jankulo...@gmail.com >> > wrote: >> >>> I writing to you by recoomendation of Andre Klapper >>> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)> about the issue, >>> and he said that I should ask The Language Engineering team about the issue >>> I wrote about. >>> >>> I am writing as a bureaucrat of mk.wiki on the suggestion of other >>> active editors and admins who feel that there is one issue that needs >>> addressing on our wiki. >>> Namely, that is the italics, whenever we use them. Unicode automatically >>> shows the East Slavic italics, where several letters are different than in >>> our own (and Serbian) alphabet. See the heading Differences from other >>> Cyrillic alphabets >>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serbian_Cyrillic_alphabet#Differences_from_other_Cyrillic_alphabets> >>> in >>> the Serbian alphabet article (the image to the right shows the >>> differences.. The correct ones for Macedonian and Serbian are i in the >>> rightmost, yellow column). Same applies to Macedonian, i.e. it is the same >>> letters that are different. In the text further near the end of the >>> section, it mentions OpenType and things I don't udnerstand. >>> >>> Our question, as a wiki-community is: is it possible to have something >>> done on our wiki (something to be installed) or elsewhere, so that we will >>> get the proper letters? I know that some free fonts support this, but I am >>> not sure which. I am sure the Serbians will also be interested to implement >>> this on their wiki (although their case is somewhat more complicated by the >>> fact they use dual script on all pages). >>> >>> We, as a community, use different operating systems and browsers, but >>> everyone sees the Russian-Bulgarian italics, not the Macedonian/Serbian >>> ones. >>> >>> Below I have a screenshot of a test I just made for each of the letters. >>> Here is again the table of differences >>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Serbian_Cyrillic_Italic.svg>. >>> The ones we want are in the rightmost (yellow) column. We are asking if it >>> is possible for all italics to be displayed this way on the wiki. This will >>> need some special intervention (I assume) as currently we don't have them, >>> but the Russo-Bulgarian in stead. (See screenshot below) >>> >>> This applies to every OS and browser, because it is a standard by >>> Unicode that hasn't been modified yet to introduce our letters, and so it >>> is, by definition, impossible for us to get Maced./Serb. italics without >>> tweaks in the wiki. Our question is: are those tweaks possible, so our >>> italics will look like that in the yellow column. >>> >>> I hope there may be a solution for our community. >>> >>> Thank you very much, >>> >>> >>> Bojan Jankuoski, >>> User: User Bjankuloski06 / Б. Јанкулоски >>> <https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA:Bjankuloski06> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> >>> Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski >>> >>> Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager >>> Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege >>> тел. | tel. +38978 282 698 >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mediawiki-i18n mailing list >>> Mediawiki-i18n@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mediawiki-i18n mailing list >> Mediawiki-i18n@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n >> >> > > > -- > > > Бојан Јанкулоски I Bojan Jankuloski > > Главен програмски раководител I Chief Program Manager > Споделено знаење I Shared Knowlege > тел. | tel. +38978 282 698 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-i18n mailing list > Mediawiki-i18n@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n > >
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