font in iAnki and Anki "study online"

[preston....@gmail.com]

Hey -

Is there any way to get the Greek text to show up properly when I use
iAnki or preferably the Anki "study online" system on my cell phone or
iPod Touch? On both devices, with both interfaces, all I see is a
strangely transliterated form in an Arial/Helvetical type font. I see
screenshots where there are Japanese (?) characters being displayed,
so I assume this should be possible. Also, the iPod Touch uses
unicode fonts so the characters are there to be displayed, it's just a
matter of figuring out how to display them.

Any thoughts?

PW

[Steve]

Hi,

I have only tested on both Macs and PCs and do not have an iphone and
thought that it would be straightforward. I will be working at
converting the vocab set to unicode but that could take awhile. I am
amending the entry on the website and I'm getting Bill to change my
entry on his website about the iphone.

For the time being, my vocab set only works on Macs an PCs. I did not
realise that installing the teknia greek font on an iphone would be
difficult but it looks like it is.

Thanks and sorry for that,
Stephen Young

[Steve]

Okay, I sat down and converted the vocab to unicode. This should work
on your iphone and online, etc. To get the new set, goto
http://sites.google.com/site/ankiandbbg/experimental-unicode-vocab-set-which-should-work-on-iphone

Btw, I have not tested this because I do not have an iphone. So,
please test it and tell me if it is working or not.. it has all the
vocab from flashworks and bbg.

Steve

[preston....@gmail.com]

Steve -

You're officially awesome. Thanks for doing the conversion. It works
well on my iPod Touch (through Anki's online system). I assume it
will work with iAnki as well, but I haven't been able to get iAnki
working at all (regardless of font issues) today.

Thanks again!

PW

On Feb 10, 2:03 am, Steve <stephenandama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I sat down and converted the vocab to unicode. This should work

> on your iphone and online, etc. To get the new set, gotohttp://sites.google.com/site/ankiandbbg/experimental-unicode-vocab-se...

[Steve]

PW,

Thanks. Just one thing, please tell me if you find any errors with the
unicode database. The other database that relies on the teknia font is
well tested and I just want to know that my conversion has gone
without a hitch.

Steve

[preston....@gmail.com]

Hey -

It seems to be working properly. I'm only up through the Chapter 10
vocab though. I have noticed that the "models" under Deck Properties
aren't the same as in the original version, but I'm not sure yet what
the models are used for.

Thanks again...
Preston

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[Steve]

Yeah, they won't be... the models are like card types. My other
version of the vocab set is a more complex vocab set which is very
difficult to convert. It is includes many of the irregular forms from
BBG and therefore it needed more complex models (card types). For the
unicode set, I started again and recreated a vocab set from
flashwork's vocab database. Because of that, it is smaller because it
doesn't contain irregular forms.

Thanks,
Steve

[preston....@gmail.com]

Hey...

What did you use to get Unicode from the FlashWorks database? If you
have some sort of a script that converts from TekniaGreek encoding to
Unicode, could I get a copy of that? I'm working on trying to convert
your "stock" anki database from TekniaGreek encoding to Unicode (so
all the irregular forms will be there), and the only thing I'm lacking
is a reliable way to programmatically convert to Unicode. I can
certainly write a conversion script myself, but it's going to be
tedious and I hate to reinvent the wheel. ;-)

Currently I'm using both the original and the Unicode versions, with
the original on my desktop and the Unicode on my iPod, but I'd like to
be able to consolidate.

Thanks...
Preston

[Steve]

Preston,

No, I didn't need a script to convert it because I grabbed a unicode
version off of Mounce. He had somebody else convert his database to
unicode. All I had to do was convert the Flashwork's unicode database
to Anki. However, for the sake of completeness and because you asked,
I converted the irregular forms into the database (I'm a quick typer).
So, now the unicode version is complete.

However, I have put together a separate file for you so that you can
just import the irregular forms into your unicode version and not
upset your current anki stats.

Grab it here: http://groups.google.com.au/group/basics-of-biblical-greek-vocab-in-anki/files?hl=en-GB

BTW, if you didn't know, you can now sync your databases across your
iphone and desktop by setting up anki to sync by using Anki's online
features.

Thanks for testing the database and taking the time to contact me.

Steve

[preston....@gmail.com]

Steve -

Thanks! I imported the Irregular.anki file with no problems, and now
I have it synced across Anki's Study Online system, iAnki (which
allows offline studying on my iPod when I don't have a network
connection) as well as the desktop Anki app.

Thanks again for all your efforts!

Regards,
Preston Wilson

On Feb 13, 9:35 pm, Steve <stephenandama...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Preston,
>
> No, I didn't need a script to convert it because I grabbed a unicode
> version off of Mounce. He had somebody else convert his database to
> unicode. All I had to do was convert the Flashwork's unicode database
> to Anki. However, for the sake of completeness and because you asked,
> I converted the irregular forms into the database (I'm a quick typer).
> So, now the unicode version is complete.
>
> However, I have put together a separate file for you so that you can
> just import the irregular forms into your unicode version and not
> upset your current anki stats.
>

> Grab it here:http://groups.google.com.au/group/basics-of-biblical-greek-vocab-in-a...