I have started to use a new laptop. Naturally, one of the first things I did was logon to skritter and encountered the following annoying problem. In the example sentences, the pinyin characters with tone marks look awkward. The pinyin that appear in the review window look fine, though. It is probably not a skritter problem, as I have a very similar problem now on MDGB.

Any idea on how to solve the problem? I guess I need to download some appropriate font? I am using Firefox 6.0.2 (The latest version) under Windows 7.

Any help would be appreciated!

Do letters with tone marks above them occasionally appear larger or smaller than other letters in the same body of text? I encounter this all the time; I just ignore it. I'm running XP; I assume this is a problem independent of the OS.

You might try an add-on for Firefox that will change the font to one of the fonts designed specifically for Chinese (they have Chinese names). They sometimes do a better job with pinyin.

Dennis: Can you recommend such an add-on? Note that my problem is with pinyin characters, not Chinese characters. In my old laptop I use Firefox 6.0.2 under windows XP and the tone bearing pinyin characters look perfect.

That's strange. Do you have Arial Unicode MS? Which instances of pinyin on Skritter look good, and which don't, besides the example sentences and the Flash review window?

I played a bit with the options of Firefox. Under Options/Content/Fonts & Colors/Advanced I ticked a box called "Allow pages to choose their own fonts". This seems to have solved the problem. Maybe it would also be useful for others.

@swimming I didn't see your response or it came in while I was writing a response. At any rate I see you've solved the problem yourself.

Fonts for Chinese can be a real pain.

Nick and Dennis, thank you for the advise!