At Wed, 14 Nov 2001 16:23:40 +0100 (CET), Markus Kuhn wrote: > The idea is that xterm decides itself, which characters are single-width > and which are double-width and that different width-schemes can > be supported using the same font pair. This is obviously not possible > by using a single font.
Yes, I agree with it. > Splitting up single-width and double-width characters into two > separate fonts has been well-established practice under X11 for > a long time and it has worked well. I consider biwidth fonts mostly > a product of their creator's unawareness of common practice. If some application can handle a biwidth (i.e. proportional) font, the real proportional font should be better with it, I guess. > I understand that Unifont is probabaly going to be split up into > a single-width and a double-width font as well, and I recommend > the efont team to do the same. O.K. Then the future release of efont-unicode-bdf will build the following fonts: 1. h??.bdf (half-width fixed font) 2. f??.bdf (full-width fixed font) 3. p??.bdf (full-width fixed , half-width fixed and real proportional font) # BTW, efont-unicode-bdf includes many glyphs of ucs-fonts. We # appreciate your great work. Regards, Kazuhiko http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/ http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/edict/ http://www.kondara.org/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
