Scan down again for -western and modify to SBL Greek Scan down again for -western and modify to 18 * Scan down again for -western and modify to serif Scan down for _document_fonts and modify to 0 This should bring up every setting relating to fonts. Once the box and button appear you can get started by entering font in the box and pressing enter. All you have to do is enter about:config in the address bar and a special configuration page will appear. It’s actually a lot less painful than it sounds.
But if you want it to be just so, with consistent beautiful typeface, and a decent size then you’ll need to get into the guts of Firefox for Android (Beta if you have followed my advice). If you simply want polytonic Greek text to be readable, but aren’t fussy about it being just so, then you can ignore this next bit. You now have SBL Greek on Firefox for Android. Tap on SBL Greek font (incl licenses).xpi and wait a second or twoĪ dialog box should appear asking if you wish to install, tap ok. Tap on mnt and then on sdcard (may be sdcard0,1,2 etc. This will open a file explorer in Firefox for Android, most likely in the phone root directory. You can place it in the sdcard main directory if you wish. But follow the principles of the following installation process.)ĭownload the SBL Greek font (incl licenses).xpi file.Ĭopy onto your phone sdcard (in any way you wish). (See the second last paragraph for the a more suitable font extension for that kind of set-up. The main reason being, that the way the installation works, if it is simply installed with no Firefox for Android settings changed, polytonic Greek will become readable, but Firefox for Android will use the SBL font as a fallback for letters previously showing up as blocks, whilst Greek letters without accents/breathing marks will probably show up in the default font for the x-western character set.
I would recommend that if you wish to use this Firefox extenion that you install it, not on you main Firefox for Android installation, but that you install the Firefox for Android Beta app, so as to allow you to customise without interfering with the setup of other web-pages.
zip and you will be able to access the source code and licenses freely.)
So if you want the source code or to read the licenses, just copy and rename the. xpi files linked here, since an xpi file is just a renamed zip file. My own modified source code is available in the. (The source code on which this is based is to be found at. I have put this together using the freely available SBL Greek font which renders Greek beautifully. These can be constructed from a basic extension developed by Mathieu Pellerin to enable Khmer fonts. But there is a way to install fonts on Firefox for Android, by means of extensions. There are some excellent sites for reading Koine and Classical Greek such as and /greek, which, since Firefox for Android is ,as it comes out of the box, unable to render lots of the polytonic letters.
Details of this can be found online.īut internet browsers mostly don’t work with the flipfont. One particular Bible app, AndBible has a font framework which allows you to use any font you choose within the app, even to the point of being able to attach specific fonts to specific Bibles, although there is a problem with the Hebrew fonts.
Examples: Tertius (the best free offline Greek and Hebrew Bible reader available for free), Bible Lexicon, Olive Tree Bible, Cadrebible, Remember me, Ankidroid etc. Many apps use a font framework, which although not always open to alteration, it facilitates complex fonts and fonts otherwise unsupported by the Android system.
But for those of us who are not brave enough to root our expensive electronic gadgets, here are a couple of helps.įirst of all if you have a Samsung Galaxy Series phone, or any other phone/tablet that has the flipfont system installed, all you have to do to get polytonic greek on most apps is install a suitable flipfont, such as Tahoma, via the Fontomizer app. This is a challenge for many people who have android phones and tablets, unless of course they have rooted devices, on which it is not a problem. Filed under: Information Technology, Language, Links, NT Greek, Technology | Tags: Android, apps, Firefox entensions, Firefox for Android, fonts, fonts on Android, Greek Bible, Hebrew Bible, phone, polytonic Greek, solution for android problem, tablet