AM> perhaps you (or mvf) have some hints for free AM> russian/japanese/other-when-they-appear-to-be-needed fonts (times and AM> courier [japanese: mincho and ?]), that are without restrictions, i.e. AM> could potentially be hold in CVS (I'm not sure, what license to the windows AM> fonts applies).
I don't know anything about japanese fonts - i have not write in japanese anything yet :) But i can say that there are good-looking freeware font packs for russian language, for examle i'm using PSCyr Type 1 fonts collection for TeX and can recommend this. This is PSCyr's license: ------------------------------------------------------------ PSCyr font collection ===================== This license applies to the PSCyr font collection. Permission is granted to use, copy, and freely redistribute the fonts from the PSCyr font collection in any media, including embedding them in PostScript and PDF documents provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Any modification of *.afm and *.pfb files is forbidden. 2. The redistribution of the font(s) and the whole collection as separate computer file(s) should retain this license information. The font collection is provided "as is" in the hope it will be useful, but without any warranty, whether implicit or explicit, of any kind. ------------------------------------------------------------------ links to this font collection http://www.tex.uniyar.ac.ru/package/fonts/pscyr/ ftp://mch5.chem.msu.su/pub/russian/psfonts/ (there is a few versions, take PSCyr-0.4c-patch2-type1.tar.gz) readme is in russian, if you need i can translate it. i can give links to another russian font collections but they are too big, i think, to store it in CVS. For examle, big and good GNU licensed Type 1 font collection called CM-SUPER, which also includes TeX fonts. ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/ http://www.tex.uniyar.ac.ru/package/fonts/cm-super.zip (64M!!) But the difficult is character set. Russian language's character sets is a very funny thing... For examle, i know 5 different character sets for russian language, and this is not a full list. The post-servers convert letters from one coding to another if the letter's coding is not specified, and sometimes i get non-readable letters on that reason. There is a special programs to read such letters (and they are quite popular)(for examle letter was written in win1251 character set, first post-server converted this from dos866 to koi8-r character set, and another post server converted from iso to koi8-r character set - try to guess that will i get :) ) . But let us return to our muttons. I don't know what a character set is internal for this fonts, let us hope that this is unicode, but i think this is T2 tex internal coding for cyrillic languages... LaTeX is working with different russain charset quite well and i don't need to know that a charset it is use. If you need help, details, or some testing or russian fonts - it'll be better to write me directly - this mail list is not about fonts, but about documentation. -------- mvf mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
