It has finally reached that time folks! I am about to start work on the Hangul blocks for the ClearlyU font. I have added hand-tuned Jamo (U+1100) and Compatibility Jamo (U+3131) glyphs that look reasonably good to me in terms of size and weight when mixed with other glyphs in the font.
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu/cu12-1.9a.bdf.gz For editing the fonts, xmbdfed 4.5 should be ready in a few days and I will have a much more recent version of the statically linked Linux binary available. Keep an eye on http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html. If you want to compile the sources, get OpenMotif (http://www.openmotif.org) or LessTif (http://www.lesstif.org). You will also want Freetype 1.3 from http://www.freetype.org. I need help with the following things: 1. Fix glyphs in the Jamo blocks if they need it, because my amateur eyes have probably missed some aesthetic points about the glyphs. 2. Create a special set of glyphs that can be combined algorithmically to generate the 11200 Hangul Syllables glyphs. 3. Write a simple Perl program to do the combining. 4. Provide any glyphs needed for dealing with the ancient Hangul syllables. Please send your changes as diffs from the original BDF font. The goal for ClearlyU is: A. Provide a separate font, cu12-hangul.bdf, which contains all the 11200 pre-composed syllable glyphs encoded in Unicode. B. Provide the Jamo (and Compatibility) glyphs in the main cu12.bdf font. The Jamo glyphs that can be algorithmically combined to form Syllable glyphs should be stored in the cu12-alt.bdf font or the cu12-pua.bdf font if necessary. C. Provide any pre-composed ancient Hangul glyphs in the cu12-pua.bdf font at some convenient location. And finally: Yes, I am either going to set up anonymous CVS or get something going on Sourceforge. People have been bugging me about this for a long time, and it's going to happen. Hopefully before the end of the year. Thanks In Advance! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Leisher Rights surrendered are not easily Computing Research Lab regained, and a police state is not New Mexico State University worth defending. Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL -- Patrick O'Grady Las Cruces, NM 88003 _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
