Dear David, and friends,
Thank you very very much for your feedback.
You question reminds me of the very intense frustrations following download of the Pali study materials recently.
Those semi-processed web pages at the temporary website were mainly downloaded from Yong Peng's Tipitaka.net website and the group Yahoo website. The initial problem in trying to learn Pali was not frustration in learning to read forward, waiting patiently and interpreting backward (and forward again) by linking various words by grammatical rules, but in dealing with numerous fonts and searching for them (proprietary is one reason). And with a recent computer degree. :-(
The problems that you mentioned are very tough to solve. Hence, there is a group effort at the moment to create a Unicode font (Project Pali Scope: Unicode fonts). Yong Peng is doing the planning at the moment.
In order to make those materials user friendly, presently the study materials are been converted under 100% Velthuis Scheme, allowing a basic PC or laptop to utilize basic fonts such as Arial. Another problem is shifting of field values from one column to another, especially on printing transmission. And a beginner isn't aware of it. In order to minimize them, extensive tabulation is used, which is time consuming. Hopefully, in another 2 weeks, "converted" study materials will replace the old ones.
Thanks again for your feedback. It means the present process in presenting those study materials in a more coherent user friendly manner is worthwhile. Your email is very encouraging. May all merits in this process go to members of the Pali study group who have contribute so much anonymously in helping beginners. (No, this beginner don't want any. Want to give them away, to the contributors, to all, in all directions.)
Please write. Off list, if you wish. Perhaps you may wish to have a look at these presently re-processed materials under Velthuis and input invaluable ideas to make them more friendly to end users - which your present email has done. (This puthujjana house builder wont know, and my PC doesnt know either now that it has almost every font from a to z.:-))
Warmest thank you.
Harry
davco123 <
davco123@...> wrote: Harry,
I am having difficulties to display correctly these pages in my
browsers. Could you please tell me if I need a specific font or
encoding to correctly display the pages?
Thank you,
David Cohen
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