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Fonts

The pdf documents have the font embedded and they can be read without installing any of the fonts listed below, but in order to read the diacritics in the Html documents you need to download and install the ITM_TMS fonts (220 KB), which come in 4 styles - Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic, together with a small-capitals version of the font, also in 4 styles. The ITM font is also being made available in Bookman-style in both regular ITM_BKM (220 KB) and small-capitals (this font-set last updated November 2009).

To view the character set and find out more about the font, please read the ITM_TMS reference.pdf (115 KB), or view the ITM_BKM reference.pdf (115 KB). There is also an ITM input-programme (200 KB) to easily insert the diacritics in the ITM range of fonts in Windows. It works with any programme which accepts text-input, and can also input into find and search and replace widgets.

All these fonts on this page are being distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, a copy of which can be read here.

Set the font to Unicode

There have one or two requests to make the site available in Unicode, and I now give an option at the bottom of each page to change the font to Unicode.

As most Unicode fonts do not have the metrical characters I use on this site, and many of them lack the characters necessary for Gandhàrã and other PràkÔts, I have made a new font ITM_TFY_UNI. Here you can see the ITM_TFY_UNI reference.pdf.

Bhikkhu Pesala, who first requested the pages be made available in Unicode, has also very kindly made an ITM_Verajja font, which has a much more extensive character set (991 glyphs as against 336 in ITM_TFY_UNI). If you are going to use Unicode then I strongly suggest you install one or other of these fonts.

However, if you are only reading the Text & Translations or English Only pages, then many fonts will be compatible. The css files define the Unicode fonts in this order: ITM_TFY_UNI, ITM_Verajja, Gandhari Unicode, Times Ext Roman, Indic Times, Arial Unicode MS, Tahoma, Gentium, serif. This is a descending order: if ITM_TFY_UNI is installed it will show that font, if it is not, but ITM_Verajja is installed it will show that font, and so on down.

To display the Unicode font requires a replacement operation via javascript of the underlying characters, which are still written in the ITM font. I am very grateful to Dr. Fa Qing of the International Buddhist College for providing me with a functioning script to do this operation (originally intended for Traditional/Simplified Chinese translation); and especially to Ven. Noah Yuttadhammo, who very generously spent a lot of time adapting the script so that it works properly on this site.