Custom CSS / custom fonts in the official Android client

[Toby]

Hello

I'm using Mnemosyne as part of my Japanese studies and I'm finding the standard Android font insufficient, but I don't want to root the phone.

Is there a way to add my own CSS to the cards, in order to load a custom font from the phone's internal memory? 

I've found several posts about an older Android client, which mention an export directory, but I'm using the official client with the sync function and I don't think I have an export directory. Can I place a style.css file and a font file by hand somewhere in the phone?

-Toby

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

 

Mnemosyne’s internal font setting option is using CSS, but I’m afraid it does not work on Android due to the restrictive way its font system is set up…

 

Cheers,

 

Peter

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[Toby]

The reason I was asking is because AnkiDroid uses CSS too and it allows you to put a custom font file in the media directory and reference it from the CSS using a relative path.

I was wondering if the same thing would be possible in Mnemosyne.

Tobia

[Peter Bienstman]

In theory yes, but they use an elaborate custom rendering mechanism to bypass the standard Android font handling.

If someone want to help implementing this, that would be nice :-)

Cheers,

Peter

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[Toby]

Oh, that's why AnkiDroid is so slow at loading the custom fonts. On every card that uses them, it takes up to half a second, on a brand new flagship phone.

Well, if anybody has any other advice, especially for Japanese, that would be welcome. Even a standard Mincho font would be preferable to the Gothic thing Android seems to be using.

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[Toby]

Anyways, font or not, is there such a thing as a custom CSS file in Mnemosyne, especially in the Android client?

In Anki I can write custom CSS in the card design screen, that will be applied to all cards of that type.

Is there such a thing in Mnemosyne?

Toby

[Peter Bienstman]

Hi,

For Mnemosyne's card types, that functionality is not exposed to the ui, as Mnemosyne currently assembles the css itself at run time.

For cards you import from Anki, you have an interface similar to Anki's to edit css.

Cheers,

Peter

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