On Sunday 07 April 2002 04:15, Gaspar Sinai wrote: > I am planning yudit-2.6.beta1 in a week or two - it works pretty > well on my desktop. For glyphs Unicode plane1 I could find only > jisx0213.2000 encoded X11 fonts on the Net but they work pretty > well with my mapping. > > Maybe in a seperate thread someone could tell us if there are > plane1 X11 Unicode bitmap fonts available, and what the > XLLFD encding part should be - I hardcoded printf (iso10646p2%d, > plane) for now till I find a font.
I have just started working on the problem along with Primoz Peterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. See http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/. I can't give you a timetable for CJK fonts, but we can discuss the project offline. What we need most, of course, is existing fonts covering each of the Unicode script and symbol ranges whose copyright holders are willing to let us put a version under an appropriate license. Then we can add the appropriate mapping and rendering tables, and any missing characters and glyphs, and translate to OpenType or other advanced font formats. Each script range should be typographically consistent, but our aim is not a single massive Unicode font. (The only reason for such a font would be to support brain-dead rendering engines. If we have to, we'll make one, but we won't be happy about it.) I use Yudit for texts concerning Buddhism, Go, the repertoires of The Slavyanka Russian Chorus and The Yiddish Gilbert & Sullivan Chorus, and other projects, and would like to use it for more writing systems, such as APL (my first-ever Unicode-encoded font). Gambatte nasai, un zay gezunt. > Cheers > gaspar -- Edward Cherlin Generalist "A knot! Oh, do let me help to undo it!" --Alice in Wonderland -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
