On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Tomohiro KUBOTA wrote: > I need variable-width fonts which includes reasonable-proportion > glyphs of latin/greek/cyrillic/katakana/hiragana/katakana/ideograph/hangul. > In such fonts, hiragana/katakana/ideograph/hangul will have larger width > than average latin, just like "W" has larger width than average latin.
We need a few heroes who start the TrueType equivalent of the Unifont and misc-fixed projects. Once you set up reasonably pleasant style guide lines, there will surely be lots of volunteers to help. In particular, don't be afraid of scanning in and magnifying pleasant existing fonts from paper and use these as starting points for your glyphs. That's what many font designers do. Knuth copied pages from his early books onto millimeter paper when he started developping Computer Modern. A good free Type1, TrueType, OpenType and BDF font editor is now avaliable from http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/ Install a copy and find out how much time it costs you to do a pleasant looking ASCII/Hiragana on-screen font and then ask for help with the other scripts. I might find time to contribute parts of the math section, for instance. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
