querido Posted December 19, 2008 at 09:26 PM Report Posted December 19, 2008 at 09:26 PM (edited) I use the Chinese font whose appearance I like best, which reduces my choices, and I was never able to get the pinyin to look perfect at the same time. I discovered a solution: I ensured that my preferred Chinese font is the only Chinese font "installed" in my operating system. (Other fonts can be selected as desired, just not automatically.) Now wherever font preferences are set, I select my preferred latin/pinyin font, and to display Chinese characters, my operating system automatically reads from that one Chinese font I have installed. I think that's what happens. This has ended all confusion over browser font settings too. Well, all is beautiful now. Now that I think about it, I certainly want to *control* these font selection decisions anyway; I wasn't aware that it was doing this all along, causing some mysterious behavior. I'm guessing that this same trick will work for Windows too. ( Debian GNU-Linux. Best kaishu-type (stroked style as taught to children) font I've found: ttf-arphic-gkai00mp. Edit: I just added its companion, ttf-arphic-bkai00mp, to cover the traditional characters too! ttf-arphic-ukai has errors, and simkai.ttf (from the MS world) is not as nice in my opinion. Preferred latin/pinyin font: ttf-dejavu, serif or sans. ) Edited December 19, 2008 at 10:05 PM by querido Quote
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