"Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov" wrote on 2003-04-01 04:19 UTC:
> Markus, I have made cyrillic letters for most -misc-fixed-* and
> for 75dpi/{tim,lu,lut,helv,cour}*.bdf, and those include 04E8,04E9 in all
> fonts, plus 04AE,04AF in about a dozen. These are packaged by most modern
> Linux distros (e.g. fonts-KOI8-R-*.rpm in RedHat).
>
> What should I do for inclusion of those glyphs into XFree86
> distribution? (I suppose that simply e-mailing either complete set of bdf
> files or a diff would make too weighty submission :-)
>
> (Sometime in 2002 Leon Canter have contacted you about these
> fonts, but that was time just before 4.3 feature freeze...)
I still have Leon's mails archived and looking at merging these Cyrillic
fonts into the ISO 10646-1 extended Adobe/B&H core fonts on
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts-75dpi100dpi.tar.gz
and via that also into XFree86. This is still on my to-do list.
Apart from simply having lacked the time to do it so far, what I am
unsure about is the legal question whether we would, after merging your
glyphs in, still be allowed to call the resulting fonts "Adobe" and
"B&H" fonts in the XLFD.
Your extension would actually add new glyphs that were not originated or
approved by the owner of the original fonts. What I did to these fonts
so far was merely to combine/ precompose existing Adobe and B&H glyphs.
One option is to rename these fonts into -XFree86-Helvetica-*, etc., but
that wouldn't make your glyphs available easily to existing applications
that ask for the traditional XLFDs with company names. I have no idea,
how much would break (technically and legally) if we removed the company
names from these ancient donated pixel fonts and replaced it with
XFree86 before adding our own glyphs. I'm also not sure whether keeping
aliases would help, and doubling the number of font files (keeping both
an Adobe/B&H and an extended Xfree86 version) sounds wasteful and
unelegant.
Any suggestions on what the names and XLFDs of Adobe and B&H pixel BDFs
with added third-party glyphs should be are welcome, especially from the
X Consortium veterans that added these core fonts in the first place.
Markus
--
Markus Kuhn, Computer Lab, Univ of Cambridge, GB
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ | __oo_O..O_oo__
_______________________________________________
Fonts mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
