Biblical Terms Tool not applying the right font in the search box

Question

Am helping a user who pointed me out to this problem.
In this example, when you search for the English term Messiah, you get this as the local language Biblical term

This is what you see in the list of texts where the word appears.

It looks like the Biblical Terms tool is not using the appropriate font in the list of Biblical terms. Is there a setting we can change to make this work?

Answer 1

As @anon892024 can confirm, this feature was actually prioritized in the top 3 in our spreadsheet of new feature requests when the Prioritization Committee met in October. It is not clear how the dev team will integrate those top three features into the current priorities, but the status of this issue is not as hopeless as you might think.

Comments

Top 4, but close enough ;->

But we may need help identifying where we still have problems. For anyone with access to Youtrack, this bug report shows what we were looking at:

https://paratext.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/PTX-17171

I will add this thread to that bug report. This is a good time to help us know where the problems are.

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I’m having the same problem when using a Graphite font.

Is there any way to code in a secondary (fallback) font? We have access to a few fonts here which, while not nearly as good as our Graphite font, are still better than the one Paratext chooses to fall back to.

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@mnjames I don’t think there is a way to do that in PT 8. There may well be a way to do that in the next release (but please do not interpret this as a promise).

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Sorry, re-reading my message I see that it sounded like a question about whether it was currently possible, but that wasn’t what I meant. My intention was a suggestion of a way to ‘solve’ the Graphite display problem without rewriting the .Net control. I understand that if that fallback font suggest were accepted, that it would require new coding to implement it.

Answer 2

Does the project use a Graphite font? If so, that is a known issue with the Biblical Terms tool - the list (top pane) can not show Graphite text.

Comments

Thank you for replying. The font being used is a Graphite font. That would explain it.
Is it in the plan for the top pane to support Graphite fonts?

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MSEAIT/LT:

Is it in the plan for the top pane to support Graphite fonts?

Not in the near future, at least. The problem is that the control used for that list is a very complex control included in .Net. To make the top pane support Graphite, we would have to implement our own version of that complex control which would take a lot of work. We could use one of our existing Graphite-enabled controls (e.g. the one used for the Wordlist), but it would cause a loss in functionality (e.g. you wouldn’t be able to resize columns, would probably lose drag/drop functionality, etc.).

Answer 3

Is the language right-to-left? There are issues mixing RTL and LTR languages. Not a fix of course, but an observation.