Hello Dierk, Tuesday, October 30, 2001, 2:52:37 PM, you wrote:
DH> for the time being you will have to work with either FixedSys or DH> another Thai font you may find on the Internet - as long as it is a DH> fixed pitch font. Ah yes of course...! I remember fiddling around with fixed-spaced Thai fonts years ago on software which required monospaced fonts. Anyway, I found a fairly good Thai courier replacement which looks pretty good in Latin text as well. I found it at: http://software.thai.net/tis-620/courierthai.html The only minor drawback when displaying English text using this font is that the line spacing is a bit wider, which is something also most of the Thai standard Windows fonts do. (Except for Tahoma which I prefer for that reason) Just like the Fixedsys font however, it doesn't display the Thai vowels which appear above or below the consonant all that well. I guess there is just no way around that; all monospaced fonts of course skip the same space after every character. DH> BTW, yours is the first sensible use for proportional fonts in e-mail DH> I ever saw ... even if it is "only" for cosmetic purposes. :-) I loved TB the moment I saw the default font was Courier. :-) When it comes to Thai text, it's more than just cosmetic though; for the occaisional Thai email I can live with odd spaces in the text, however I think a Thai person who is used to perfectly spaced text in Outlook (curses!) would think twice before switching to TB. "Fo r exa mple ima gine you r te xt loo ki ng li ke this." That's pretty much the effect when you try to write Thai with Fixedsys and other monospaced Thai fonts. Cheers, Han. +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Han Thomas 25/1 Moo 2 Pa Bong, Saraphee | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chiang Mai 50140 THAILAND | +----------------------------------------------------------+ -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
