Hi, and Happy Christmas. I'm now running my font-analysis scripts [ I had too many TTF/OTF fonts and wanted to install fewer without losing coverage - I get annoyed if I see squares with dots in my browser, even if I can't read the script ]
For Chinese I've always installed fireflysung, but now that I look closely at the book I see that Arphic is also recommended. The link to Arphic is dead, but I eventually found http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Traditional_Chinese which points to a debian mirror. In my local mirror's pool/main/t/ there are directories for ttf-arphic- bkai00mp, bsmi00lp, gbsn00lp, and gkai00mp : that web page, if I'm reading it correctly, says that the b* fonts are traditional chinese (13148 glyphs) and the G* are simplified (7764 glyphs). But then it goes on to say that Firefly merged the traditional and simplified, and added manually optimized bitmaps for sizes 12-16. If I'm reading this correctly, that means Fireflysung is all we need for coverage, but presumably those who use traditional Chinese will prefer the b* fonts in the larger sizes ? Is that a correct view ? Meanwhile, Ubuntu is maintaining variants of these fonts as ttf-arphic-ukai and ttf-arphic-uming. These are also in debian. The files are .ttc (truetype font collection). If I load ukai I can see that it provides CN, HK, TW, and TW MBE (?) variants. So, fontconfig knows how to deal with ttc files. Unfortunately I don't know how to discover which glyphs are in a ttc font collection (for ttf fonts I found ttf2config.pl in Font::TTF:;Scripts at CPAN). Anyone got any pointers to this file format, please ? Also, does anyone who can read Chinese have any views on the ubuntu versions ? All I can say is that they extract into the current directory :) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
