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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Most excellent, thank you! Even I can make out 95% of this one (but I am German-impaired, so not quite all  )
My poor pdfs look so bad in comparison. |
This is FANTASTIC work you are doing GrannyGrump! Luckily, I have never ran into this dreaded "blackletter" stuff... I think I would be pulling my hair out!
Worst I had to do was dealing with all of this ancient greek with a bunch of accents.
If I was able to figure out most of the symbols, I would be able to do a google search of my part of the phrase, and run into someone else's digitized version of the complete phrase! It was extremely helpful, so perhaps you will do the same thing for someone in the future!
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
One further question --- when I lay out the svg images, if I style for a width, such as 100%, they scale really small on a small screen, and appear very much smaller than the normal text.
I am very tempted to style them for *height in ems* instead, to keep them scaled with the font-size. But then, with a large font-size and narrow window, they overflow the screen width.
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We had a lot of this discussion in a thread talking about inserting the "Apple" symbol into an EPUB.
We discussed/showed examples of: font embedding, SVG (scaling in ems), and PNGs scaling as well:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=222825
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Originally Posted by GrannyGrump
Or, should I keep them sized to match the font-size, with the possibility of them becoming too large to fit the screen width?
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Font-size, of course! But be warned if you go an image method (higher resolution PNGs), this method breaks in iBooks (BAH!).
You mentioned that you have many of these in symbols in SVG, may I ask where you got them from?
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Originally Posted by Jellby
Really? I'm sure most of these are in Unicode, and it should be possible to find a font for them (and subset it). That would require a reader that supports font embedding, but to me that's a lesser evil than using an image (even SVG).
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Yep yep. Font embedding would be the best because you can still search/copy/paste. With an image, it makes it harder to convert and/or make portable.
The way I would rank them is:
- Font embedding
- SVG
- PNG as an absolute last resort
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Originally Posted by Jellby
I'd be happy to help transcribing these fragments, it seems fun  |
Is this what you use in your dating profile?
Jellby likes: Long walks on the beach, manually transcribing fragments of hard to digitize languages.
