Tacvek wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Heck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Ronald Lamprecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Tacvek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Дремук Сергей" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <enigma-devel@nongnu.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 3:45 AM > Subject: Re: [Enigma-devel] Russian Localization > > >> Ronald Lamprecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Tacvek wrote: >>>>> Ronald Lamprecht wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> @Daniel: AFAIK our current font does not support cyrillic >>>>>> characters. >>>>>> How should we support them? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Frankly, I don't know... Are there any any free cyrillic truetype >>>>> fonts >>>>> that we could distribute with Enigma? A quick google search did >>>>> not turn >>>>> up anything. >>> >>> There are several sources for cyrillic ttf fonts: >>> >>> http://www.freelang.net/fonts/index.html >>> http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/russian.html >>> >>> As a first experiment I took >>> http://www.freelang.com/download/fonts/ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip as it >>> has a licence that allows to modify the font. Thus I copied the >>> cyrillic >>> characters to dustismo_bold.ttf and added the corresponding unicode >>> mappings. >> >> Unfortunately the license of ttf_russe_kurierkoi8.zip is incompatible >> with that of the Dustismo font. Although the former does permit >> modification, it explicitly disallows selling the font and therefore >> conflicts with the GPL used by Dustismo. >> >>>> There is a GPL'ed font called ttf-thyromanes that can be found in >>>> debian, and it includes cyrillic (in addition to latin, greek, and >>>> IPA). >>>> >>>> The font has no hinting or kerning, which is a downside especially for >>>> small font sizes. >> >> The original Dustismo font also had no good hinting, but one run through >> Fontforge's autohinting improved the visual appearance of the font >> inside Enigma tremendously. So I don't see this as a major problem. >> Same for the missing kerning information; Dustismo, for example, only >> has a handful of kerning pairs and still looks quite good. > > Was fontforge also responsible for the noticable decrease in file size > versus the original Dustimo font? > > > Annother suggestion: > Perhaps the DejaVu fonts, specifically DejaVu Sans. DejaVu is an > extended version of Bitstream Vera, so it should fit in well with Enigma. > > They have more or less the same licence as Bistream Vera. > > The font covers over 100 languages, > with full Latin, Greek, and cyrillic, (A few combining diacritics from > latin are missing, but alsmost any one that would actually be used is > there), and some other areas, including the full braille section, and > many of the symbol sections.) > In other words it should support any language that uses Latin, > Cyrillic, or Greek characters, and perhaps a couple of other languages > as well, and has plenty of symbols. > > Indeed the only reasons not to use this font seem to be: > 1. No support for most east asian languages, > 2. Licence not GPL-compatible (but it is free, and DFSG-free, and > being data, it does not need compatability > with the main program). > 3. Quite a bit larger than Vera Sans. vera_sans.ttf is 38 KB, and > DejaVuSans.ttf is 450 KB. (However, that is not horribly much compared > to the total size of Enigma.) > 4. The character sizes in Vera/Dejavu are somewhat larger than with > Dustismo. I tested the DejaVu Sans fonts today. While the DejaVuSans is to bright, to white, the DejaVuSansExtraLight ist too thin. The DejaVuSansCondensed looks very nice for me.
But I do not undestand very much of font issues. _______________________________________________ Enigma-devel mailing list Enigma-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/enigma-devel
