The Fweet Figla font allows you to see the text-based strings
representing sigla within the Fweet collection as ideographic
sigla (pictorial ideograms used by Joyce to designate the central
characters and themes of Finnegans Wake). It is based on a font
designed by Michael Powers; I have just rearranged the locations of the
sigla and updated the font attributes to suit modern browsers' tastes.
Most modern browsers now support a feature called "CSS3 web fonts",
which allows a font to be displayed in your browser even if it is not
installed on your system. However, this feature often results in
unnecessary downloads and slower browser performance. Thus, I recommend
installing the font even if your browser supports this feature. The
following instructions assist you in downloading and installing the
Fweet Figla font. For the justifiably-wary among you, this does
not involve any application being installed on your computer, just a
font.
Prior to installing the font, the following line will appear as a
series of either (a) letters, asterisks and obelisks (if your
browser does not support "CSS3 web fonts") or (b) sigla and
obelisks (if it does). After you have installed the font and
reloaded this page (e.g. by pressing Ctrl-R), it should always
display as sigla (the obelisks will not disappear since they are very
shapely...)
††††*A*C*E*F*I*J*K*L*M*O*P*Q*S*T*V*W*X*Y*††††
Note that the font can also be used for regular word-processing,
should you need it. The following line of 18 letters corresponds to
the line above, as a guide to which siglum resides on which capital
letter.
†††† A C E F I J K L M O P Q S T V W X Y ††††
click on this link to
download the Fweet Figla font
save the font file to disk and remember its location (do not change
its extension from ".ttf" as some systems may balk at this later on)
on Windows systems, it is better not to save the file on the
Desktop or in My Documents, unless you know how to reach
them via the directory tree, a feat you will need to perform
momentarily
install the font as you would any other TrueType or OpenType font
on your system:
on most Windows 7 systems this involves:
clicking on the Windows taskbar Start button and
selecting Control Panel
selecting Appearance and Personalization, then Fonts
(or just directly Fonts)
dragging the font file from where you had saved it
into the fonts folder
on most Windows 8 systems this involves [this walkthrough
courtesy of Christel Davies]:
right clicking on the font file
selecting Install from the context menu
on most Windows XP systems this involves:
clicking on the Windows taskbar Start button and
selecting Settings, then Control Panel (or just
directly Control Panel)
selecting Appearance and Themes (or Appearance and
Personalization), then Fonts (or just directly
Fonts)
selecting File, then Install New Font... (if File is
not available, 'Alt' may have to be pressed first)
locating the drive and directory in which the font
file was saved, using the Drives: and Folders:
selection lists
selecting the Fweet Figla font in the "List of
Fonts" box
selecting "Copy Fonts to Fonts Folder" and clicking
OK (or Install)
on most modern Linux systems this involves [this walkthrough
courtesy of phooky]:
copying the font file to your ~/.fonts directory (if
this directory does not exist, you will have to create
it)
running "mkfontdir"
restarting your browser
on most modern Macintosh systems this involves [this
walkthrough courtesy of Joel Reisman]:
double-clicking on the font file, thereby opening a
window displaying the contents of the font
clicking Install Font
I believe that most modern iPhone systems do not allow fonts
to be installed (you might want to ask Apple to implement this
very basic feature)
If you know how this is done on other systems, please send a
comment
If you encounter any problems, please send a comment.
If you have arrived to this page from the
tutorial page, please be kind, rewind and
return to that page; there is a crusty old guide patiently waiting for
you there.