One thing that we need to improve as a community is our abilities to add Tengwar, Sarati, and Cirth transcriptions to our websites. It's not possible on social media websites, we can accept that, but on our own websites it's possible. Some of us have the knowledge and ability to do it, but most of us are luddites. We need to set up really simple ways to do this that non-code-literate folks can use.
This means:
1. Step by step instructions.
2. Setting up remote hosting for the fonts for those who can't just install it on their own servers.
3. Building plugins for the more popular website building tools like WordPress.
Tamas Ferencz Dec 11, 2017 (23:47)
Severin Zahler Dec 12, 2017 (04:59)
I'm happy to assist anyone who wants to embed tengwar on their webpage, should not be too difficult in most cases
Severin Zahler Dec 12, 2017 (05:03)
Tamas Ferencz Dec 12, 2017 (09:16)
Fiona Jallings Dec 12, 2017 (10:14)
Tamas Ferencz Dec 12, 2017 (13:48)
j. mach Wust Dec 12, 2017 (22:12)
Fiona Jallings Dec 12, 2017 (22:51)
Fiona Jallings Dec 12, 2017 (22:54)
Severin Zahler Dec 17, 2017 (13:24)
* Step 1: Add an "HTML" or "Custom Widget" or similar element using the website builder of your CMS (in my case I use the Elementor plugin for Wordpress).
* Step 2: Add the following code:
`Cj¸# Á
This will insert a paragraph that says "Alla!" in Tengwar. All elements on the page you embed this code and have [class="tng-an"] on them will be displayed as Tengwar.
In my editor this would look like this:
https://plus.google.com/photos/...
Severin Zahler Dec 17, 2017 (13:33)
Simple things can be to i.e. change all second headings (
-Tags) on the page to Tengwar, for this write in the HTML-element inside the
`Cj¸# Á
Severin Zahler Dec 17, 2017 (13:37)
https://plus.google.com/photos/...
Severin Zahler Dec 17, 2017 (13:39)
So, as you see with the form example, many things are possible, but depending on what you want the way to achieve it may be very different. So writing a tutorial that's working for many situations and CMS may be difficult. Best you describe concretely what exactly you want and then I may be able to tell you what to do to achieve it.
I censored the URL to the font for now, it leads to my own WIP page, that's for two reasons:
- I would be happy to host the fonts for everyone making websites out there, but I want to respect the terms put up by the font creators, and these usually do not allow sharing the fonts without the documentation / readme files or for commercial use; and i could not control whether the fonts hosted by me would be used commercially or not.
- The URL is temporary only, as soon as the new page replaces the old one the URL will change again (and all external implementations of the fonts will break)
Tamas Ferencz Dec 17, 2017 (14:17)
Tamas Ferencz Dec 17, 2017 (14:32)
drive.google.com - TengwarModerSans_sample_Dec17.pdf
Severin Zahler Dec 17, 2017 (15:42)
Severin Zahler Dec 17, 2017 (15:47)
- need to contact me personally at severin.zahler(at)gmail.com
- need to confirm to me that you are respecting the font's terms
- provide links to the font's original publication place, where the entire package can be downloaded (if available).
The fonts that I gathered so far and that I can provide are listed here: elbisch.ch.diamant.ch-meta.net - - Anfrageformular
j. mach Wust Dec 18, 2017 (13:42)
1. The font encodes the tengwar in the PUA of Unicode. This has the benefit that it cannot possible clash with other characters. Therefore, the tengwar can be added globally to the entire site without the need of defining any extra classes or tags. All you need to do is adding the following line to the CSS:
* {font-family: FreeMonoTengwar, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;}
2. The tengwar font has been added within the CSS file itself, in base64 encoding. The benefit (and only reason why you would want to do this) is that you need not uploading any separate files or worry about hosting the font. The drawback is that the CSS file becomes considerably larger (comparable to a medium-sized picture). Here is the link to the stylesheet that includes the font:
http://www.sindarin.de/tolkienforum/styles/subsilver2/theme/stylesheet.css
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Severin Zahler Dec 18, 2017 (15:57)
The thing with the global CSS only works if you have full access to the HTML and CSS files, which is usually not the case with CMS's (as Fiona is using). However some offer the possibility to modify global CSS or access a page's header and similar.