Default fonts with 3 keyboards

[stu2]

Hi. I'm working with English, Greek and Hebrew using Linguist Software's fonts and keyboards. I understand how to use the secondary font setting, and if I were just using English and Hebrew, that would be fine. But the default Greek font is some system font, not the Unicode font I'm wanting to use. So I find myself constantly manually switching fonts as I switch between keyboards.

What's the correct way to do this? Is there a way to tell OS X to always use a certain greek font when I switch to a greek keyboard for instance? Ideally I'd like to not even mess with the secondary font feature - I will always want to use the same Hebrew font and the same Greek font.

Thanks!

Stu

[rpcameron]

The association between fonts and keyboards has nothing to do with the system preferences. There is no way for you to tell OS X what your preferred font is for input. OS X provides no way for an application to query the system what a user's preferred font is.

In Mellel, there is only one way to ensure that your preferred font is used for multiple scripts, and that is to use a font that supports both (or all three, or more) scripts that you wish to use. For your case, you'd need to find a single font that supports Latin, Greek and Hebrew characters.

[jannuss]

In Mellel, there is only one way to ensure that your preferred font is used for multiple scripts, and that is to use a font that supports both (or all three, or more) scripts that you wish to use. For your case, you'd need to find a single font that supports Latin, Greek and Hebrew characters.

Patrick, that is a workaround, but not a very good one.

One of the reasons for having a secondary font with script definitions, is that each language has it's special needs. For example, if you are using Hebrew with diacritics, you run into a problem with the relative size of the Hebrew text [which has to be smaller to leave room for the vowel marks] and the English text. I solve this problem by setting my secondary font two points larger than the main font. I'm sure there are similar nuances with Greek.

The solutions, of course, is a Ternary Font option -- near the top of many users' wish lists for Mellel.

Janet