Subject: Re[2]: New Fonts!
From: Vladimir Stoos' (vstoos@mail.ru)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 22:32:20 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.
mpuea> Oh.I thought they did. Please go hunting for free cyrillic glyphs. Tomas
mpuea> Frydich suggested we should supply"font-paks"that could be downloaded from our
mpuea> web site. I agree. They could also be wrapped up with an ispell dictionary to
mpuea> make a locale specifc download too.
I haven't much time to do all the work, but I asked friends from
linux@linux.org.ua to help me.
Here some URLs that might help:
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/SRPMS/*fonts* -
all fonts
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/SRPMS/cyrillic-Type1-fonts-1.0-ipl5.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/SRPMS/urw-fonts-2.0-alt12.src.rpm
ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts - work of one font-developer
ftp://ftp.gnome.ru/fonts/urw/release/urw-fonts-1.0.7pre4-ttf.tar.bz2 - if
you need ttf
Send me your comments, please.
-- Best regards, Vladimir mailto:vstoos@mail.ru
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