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There are two requisites to display the
WebTibetan examples at this site:
- you must have
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 or above, or another browser
which correctly displays fonts resident on the client browser operating system (invoked via the "font face" tag), and
you must have the Sambhota true type font named Samw (file name "SAMW.TTF") loaded in your native operating system.
 You may freely download the samw font
from this site. Unzip the compressed file and install according to your system's font installation instructions. (Those with the Sambhota system already installed may also view the samples,
although one character displays incorrectly, as noted below.) The browser requirement: We have successfully viewed the examples using Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0 - 5.5 for Windows. There is a problem in the implementation in Netscape Navigator and Communicator 4.0 for Windows of the tag ("fontface") we are using to display the document with respect to display of
Nitartha-Sambhota. We are continuing to test it. The technology does not appear to be properly implemented in Netscape 3.01 and in earlier versions of Windows95, but does sometimes work in
Netscape 3.01 for NT 3.51 and 4.0. The Opera browser can be configured to display Samw for any level of heading or normal text, but this requires a different use of font tags than we have chosen for this site. The font requirement:
The font we have used in our WebTibetan texts is called "Samw." Freely available for download from this page, it displays the WebTibetan documents on this site correctly. Click here to see the WebTibetan examples. A note on creating WebTibetan documents
 Use of the samw font, or any specific
proprietary font, is not required for the display of Tibetan text; in theory, any font that a browser can display will work equally to display Tibetan. For a detailed explanation of how to create
WebTibetan documents, go to the next page on "How to create WebTibetan." Samw is in fact a version of the native Nitartha-Sambhota program font named "Sama". The Nitartha-Sambhota program is an update of Sambhota, one of the oldest and most widely used Tibetan word
processing systems. In our development program. We are still working to further enhance the product. For those who have Sambhota installed on their system, the Sama
font will be called as an alternative Tibetan font. Sama will work with the samples listed above with the exception of one character, and the Tibetan documents may be displayed without the necessity of
downloading Samw. However, the Samw font provided for download from this page fixes a bug in the Sama display with respect to that broken character. How to create WebTibetan documents |
