Peter Constable wrote as follows.
On 08/27/2002 12:08:09 AM James Kass wrote:
William Overington has mentioned the Softy editor. Please keep
in mind that fonts are copyrighted material, and, mostly users
are forbidden to modify them, even for internal use purposes.
The best way to get
I'll summarize what I think the mail is about interspersed with my
opinions.
William Overington wrote:
1) Quotes mail from Kass and Constable
2) Summarizes same mail.
3) Questions if James suggestion to ask font developer for additional
character is practical.
In my experience it is. Clearly
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Eric Muller wrote:
For my personal use, I would like to acquire electronic dictionaries,
principally for the major European languages, with the following
characteristics:
- reputable source
- raw datafiles accessible - I appreciate the interfaces that
dictionary
On 08/28/2002 05:38:05 PM Doug Ewell wrote:
Edit controls (edit boxes, text widgets) in Windows already come
equipped with a right-click menu...
It's not hard to imagine that menu being extended with a Character
Info or What's This Glyph? item...
Of course, I have no idea if such a thing will
This message is in response to the previous messages in this thread.
There *IS* a viable solution to the whole problem of adding a few extra
characters to a font without having to wade into the potential legal
morass of individual font vendor's intellectual property rights:
The solution is to
At 11:00 -0400 2002-08-30, Edward H Trager wrote:
The solution is to use collaborative Open Source development methodologies
to produce one or more high-quality, operating system and vendor-neutral
TTF and OpenType unicode fonts. Resulting fonts would be copyrighted and
released under a
And who pays the poor font designer for his work?
U+0041 U+006C U+0074 U+0072 U+0075 U+0069 U+0073 U+006D U+0020 U+006F U+0072 U+0020
U+006B U+0075 U+0064 U+006F U+0073 U+002C U+0020 U+006D U+0061 U+0079 U+0062 U+0065
U+003F
At 12:03 -0400 2002-08-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And who pays the poor font designer for his work?
U+0041 U+006C U+0074 U+0072 U+0075 U+0069 U+0073 U+006D U+0020
U+006F U+0072 U+0020 U+006B U+0075 U+0064 U+006F U+0073 U+002C
U+0020 U+006D U+0061 U+0079 U+0062 U+0065 U+003F
Altruism or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And who pays the poor font designer for his work?
U+0041 U+006C U+0074 U+0072 U+0075 U+0069 U+0073 U+006D U+0020 U+006F U+0072 U+0020
U+006B U+0075 U+0064 U+006F U+0073 U+002C U+0020 U+006D U+0061 U+0079 U+0062 U+0065
U+003F
Reminds me of a line by a standup
Kudos do not pay the rent. And altruism can run out when the rent
needs to be paid ;-)
Very true. But you make the hasty assumption that font designing is the
activity creating the money for paying the rent.
At 13:35 -0400 2002-08-30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kudos do not pay the rent. And altruism can run out when the rent
needs to be paid ;-)
Very true. But you make the hasty assumption that font designing is the
activity creating the money for paying the rent.
Only because so few
What scares me was that I puzzled that out almost instantly -- I felt like I
was watching Wheel of Fortune or something. ;-)
MichKa
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: Romanized Cyrillic
From: Michael Everson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Only because so few people think that fonts are worth paying for that
people who really OUGHT to be earning their living by making fonts
have to do other things. There's something really wrong with that
model. Isn't there?
Of course, one could also
I wrote:
#x0055;#x006E;#x0074;#x0069;#x006C;#x0020;#x0049;#x0020;#x0063;
...
Some of you had as much trouble with my XML entities as I might have had
with Jarkko's U+ codes. Here is the transliteration:
Until I converted Jarkko's text, I wondered if he wasn't trying to make
a Unicode form
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Michael Everson wrote:
At 11:00 -0400 2002-08-30, Edward H Trager wrote:
The solution is to use collaborative Open Source development methodologies
to produce one or more high-quality, operating system and vendor-neutral
TTF and OpenType unicode fonts. Resulting fonts
Hello, Unicoders!
Recently, I read some messages saying that there're 3 new double-wide overstruck accents are proposed for Unicode:
035D: double-wide breve
035E: double-wide macron
035F: double-wide underbar (d-w combining low line)
Please send me more info (and some documentation) on those
Robert Wheelock asked:
Recently, I read some messages saying that there're 3 new
double-wide overstruck accents are proposed for Unicode:
Umm. Well, they aren't double-wide and they aren't overstruck,
and their names are not:
035D: double-wide breve
035E: double-wide macron
035F:
Michka is right. The free font vs commercial font argument comes
from the TYPO-L list, and probably isn't appropriate to this forum.
--
Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com
Edward H. Trager wrote,
... I was also thinking
about the issue of how do you get the highly qualified designers
interested in such a project?
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Best regards,
James Kass.
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