Subject: Re: New Fonts!
From: Vladimir Stoos' (vstoos@mail.ru)
Date: Mon Jan 21 2002 - 22:26:00 CST
Hello Martin,
Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 2:19:27 AM, you wrote:
MS> Hi Folks,
MS> With the release of XFree 4.20 comes the release of a new set of
MS> Type 1 and True Type fonts from Luxi. These are particularly interesting
MS> because they have such a broad range of encodings.
Those fonts doesn't have any of cyrillic glyphs!!!
Don't you want to lead cyrillc users hunt for appropriate cyrillic fonts,
making fonts.aliases and etc. May be we can include fonts, that will
provide cyrillic glyphs too?? I think many people in Russia may help that.
MS> See:
MS> http://www.noguska.net/linux/xfree86/4.2.0/RELNOTES4.html#luxi
MS> Can someone download them and give them a try with abiword?
MS> Of particular interest is this gem:
MS> In particular, these fonts include all the glyphs needed for ISO 8859
MS> parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 13 and 15, as well as all the glyphs in the Adobe
MS> Standard encoding and the Windows 3.1 character set.
MS> So once abiword 1.2 is released and becomes a pure unicode application, we
MS> can use these fonts in X to get all the Symbol and Dingbat fonts we need
MS> :-)
-- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:vstoos@mail.ru
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