Symbols

[bob]

How do I get these to show up on iSilo?

Δ ≠ ∞ Ө α → ↓ ↑ ♂ ♀

[iSilo]

See the thread Greek alphabet and math symbols for a possible suggestion.

[bob]

Thanks!

This info was very helpful and will allow me to display all the Greek font I might need.

Interestingly enough, Windows iSilo can display Greek characters (Times New Roman) if your web page is set to charset=windows-1253 and you use the Times New Roman font, but iSilo for the Palm won't. (My guess is that the Palm Character set is more or less 1252, with a few Palm symbols.)

My problem is displaying ♀ and ♂ on my Palm and on the web. I believe these are double bit characters and Palm and/or iSilo might not be set up for that.

One solution was to create a modified Symbols Font with these and other missing symbols remapped to single bit. The problem here is that I don't know a way of setting up a web page that will show the symbols on a browser and also allow them to be seen on my palm. Other than creating a second web site for the sole purpose of iSilo, I don't know another may of getting certain symbols to display both ways.

Despite the fancy terms used in this message, I've only discovered most of these concepts over the past two days and am not an expert programer in by any means. I can edit HTML and have created a new font. Can you Help?

[iSilo]

The Palm OS has very little built-in multi-character set support, while such support is built-in to Windows already, so iSilo can take advantage of that on Windows. The reason for this can probably be attributed to the scarcity of available memory on a Palm OS device. So unfortunately there is probably no practical way of doing what you want. One way of doing what you want is to use images for those symbols.

[bob]

I considered using images for these characters, but thought they might not function correctly if the user decided to switch font size on their palm. I like the smallest font option, but not everyone else does or has a hi-res palm.

Is there a way to have the image resize with the font?

Thanks.

[Voltage Spike]

While I do not believe that iSilo supports the dynamic resizing of pictures, I have not tested this feature.

Using CSS, you can insert a style="width: 1em" into the IMG or OBJECT element to have the user agent (in this case, iSilo) resize the image relative to the size of the text.

Let me know how things work out for you.

[bob]

Thanks for the tip.

It worked great on the web page, but still came out in one-nonajustable size in both iSilo Palm and iSilo Windows