Re: Ethiopic writing Re: intrinsic advantage of Latin alphabet over bopomofo (for Chinese)??

On Mar 11, 3:58 pm, "*alan*" <in_flagra...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:1173636705.245878.179970@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Mar 11, 12:10 pm, "*alan*" <in_flagra...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





"Peter T. Daniels" wrote
"*alan*" wrote:

"Peter T. Daniels" wrote

It was on "larger," and I changed it to "largest." Now even fewer
characters fit in the google groups fixed-width window. But I don't
know that it'll help enough to make the Arabic legible. It's in the
next 10-message window up, so I can't scroll to it from here.

Try reading this:
هل تستيع أن تقراء هذه الجملة؟
Nope, the dots merge together and into the mimims.

There are a couple of other things you can do to solve that problem. I'm
offering the following advice on the assumption that you're using Windows
and that whatever version you have is probably not too different from the
version I have (XP Professional):

- go to Control Panel
- double-click Display
- select Settings tab

Turn your attention to the Screen Resolution bar. The lower the
resolution,
the larger the images will appear; by default, I believe, it's normally
set
at 1024 by 768 pixels. I moved the little indicator on the bar to the next
(and lowest) setting down, which is 800 by 600 pixels.
After having selected the lowest (or at least a lower) resolution setting,
click Apply, then OK, and your viewing image will be larger.

Try the above _first_.

If it's _still_ not large enough (or if it had already been set at the
lowest screen resolution) there's another adjustment you can make ----
increase your DPI.

To do that, while still on the Settings tab, click the Advanced button,
and
then you'll have a choice of (1) 96 DPI (which is normal) , (2) 120 DPI
which will make it larger, or (3) Custom setting, which will enable you to
increase by percentage increments even higher than 120 DPI ---- the custom
setting is a nice feature insofar as you're given a sample of the display
size as you try different percentage increases. Once you've chosen the
best
DPI, click "Apply", of course, then "OK" . . . .

It may seem like a lot of trouble to go to, but it's really not. (And if
it
can keep your dots from merging into the minims, I'd say it's worth it,
not
to mention that it'll make everything else much easier to read).

Peter> When you do that, the windows in some programs that aren't rezizable
Peter> are larger than the screen and can't be used -- in Acrobat 7.0, for
Peter> instance.

Peter> And it doesn't increase resolution, just dot size.

Well, you don't want to increase your resolution anyway.  The lower the
resolution, the larger the image will appear.
In any case, if lowering your resolution (to 800 x 600 as I'd suggested)
didn't do the trick, and if increasing your DPI above the 96 DPI default
didn't work either,

_Increasing_ the dpi would make the dots even smaller.

or if one or both of those operations  (it's not  clear
to me if you tried one or the other, or both) seems to interfere with the
way other programs are displayed, here's another thing you can try (and,
since it's a feature which can be turned off and on quite easily, it won't
involve changing any of your settings which may interfere with your other
programs):

-From your Start menu, go to "All Programs" ---> "Accessories"  --->
"Accessibility" and select "Magnifier".

This will open a band approximately 1.5 inches wide at the top of your
screen which will show a magnified version of whatever you have your cursor
on below in the regular screen.

Actually, it opens a dockable window.

If that does the trick, you could right-click on "Magnifier" and send it to
the Desktop as a Shortcut to access it more quickly next time you need to
keep your dots from merging with your minims . . . .

It doesn't increase the resolution, it just makes the poor resolution
bigger. (In the real world, "increased resolution" means you see more
detail, not that you squeeze more information into the same area.)

But it will definitely be useful for _other_ applications that come
with an unchangeable small font size.

Thank you.

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