The book already points to my "font analysis" website where I had listed details of various TTF and OTF fonts which support current languages, but the site has moved since the 7.9 release (my ISP stopped providing free space), and I have at last finished updating it - now that I've had to rent the webspace, I took the opportunity to revise what I'm doing (prompted by kde recommending those damned Noto fonts - anybody here need Cuneiform or Linear B ? No ? Me neither), so here is a short summary:
1. With the exception of the Luxi fonts from Xorg, and the possible exception of the IPA Japanese fonts, everything I have documented is totally libre, which means not only can you use it free for commercial purposes as well as for personal use, you can also change them if you want to. The Luxi and IPA fonts cannot / maybe cannot be changed (I could not work out whether the IPA license permits this). 2. As before, I have created 'codepoints' files listing whih codepoints each font claims to support. So, if you know that the box with dots in on your screen contains U+2030 (the per mille sign) you can search for that in those files. But note that I say "claims to support" - some fonts do odd things in their mappings. 3. Also as before, there are summary 'coverage' files where I list the codepoints under their unicode headings (Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, and so forth). These files are probably not a lot of use. 4. But now, instead of PDFs where I attempted to put the latin, greek and cyrillic letters and their variations into some sort of alphabetic order, I now present 'PDF-contents' files showing all the glyphs. 5. I also created 'PDF-language' files suggesting which languages the various fonts support. More details on the main page, but for latin or cyrillic alphabets I show the full alphabet and I always show Article 1 of the UDHR for each of the chosen languages. 6. And I've created some "dummy text" 'PDF-lorem' files (some people apparently call this "greek text" which is a PITA if you are looking for greek dummy text). For the latin alphabet, except for monospace, I used the old 'lorem ipsum'. The purpose of these files is so that you can compare hoRwe the fonts look in short pieces of text. For example, in English there are at least two forms for 'a' (with or without a top curl) and for 'g' (open tail or closed loop below). 7. I've also taken the opportunity to put the fonts themselves into a table - this is unfortunately wide, so you will have to scroll across, but it includes details such as whether or not there are bold or italic forms, what the license is, and the package name - as well as the (mostly shortened) names I have used for my files, plus the names by which they are known to fontconfig. Below that are links to get to where you can download the fonts. One day, I might get back to this and add some more fonts for latin languages, in some other styles (e.g. those based on Goudy or Gill). But for the moment this covers all current languages any of us are likely to see on the web. This has taken me about 5 months, so don't expect any added fonts in the short term. The URL is (still, although changed since the 7.9 book) http://zarniwhoop.uk/ttf-otf-notes.html and there are one or two other old things in the directory above that. The PDF-language files and so me of the lipsum files were created in libreoffice, the rest, and the PDF-language files, were produced in xelatex. For the PDFs you will of course need a PDF viewer (firefox can do that) - I've created that at 10pt size, which is small, but any decent viewer can zoom in. If you spot any errors, or broken internal links (at first I did not realise that the way to upload multiple files in cpanel is to put them in a zip, so I was doing them individually and perhaps one of the codepoint files might be missing), please reply to me off-list. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
