On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, J. R. Mauro<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >>> >>> Does >>> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info >>> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). >> >> Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give you a process >> something like drawing your font, or even modifying one of the handful >> of 'open-source' fonts, like Inconsolata. There is a ttf2subf program >> (http://mirtchovski.com/p9/freetype/) that will, I think, convert the >> Fontforge product for Plan 9. Erik has used that program or similar >> to convert Inconsolata, for example, and some other font-related work >> may be in his contrib directory. >> >> -Josh >> > > Speaking of that, is there a way to do the reverse, to get plan 9 Bigelow > fonts that Linux can use? I'm sick of my browser not knowing that the > character left of the 1 on my keyboard is an open-quote. > >
Remember, only heathens use ` to begin a quote. The enlightened use ' and " for all kinds of single and double quotes, because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them properly. Also, few things in the world look worse than seeing a quote done ``like this'' in a monospace font. John -- "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba
