On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:35:53PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote: > So I think that "scientific publisher" doesn's tell the truth to you/to the > list. > Let's also clarify a few things here. > Do you speak about CJK fonts, or about Latin+Greek+Cyrillic fonts, right?
"The scientific publisher" speaks about mathematical fonts. > There are some rather good fonts available *for free* for Latin+Greek+Cyrillic > alphabet. Which is but a small subset of Unicode. That doesn't cover the 1200+ mathematical characters (which keeps growing), the 1000+ technical characters, or the many other scripts in Unicode. > | > > And presumably FreeType2 will have, or acquire, the smarts for > | > > rendering the Arabic and Indic scripts properly. > > I am wondering *how important* those Arabic and Indic scripts? > While there is a certan number of people living in those countries, I doubt > that they have a lot of computers, and nuymbe rof *Linux* users from that > number is quaestionable, too. > And when those things happen to change - we will see some people willing to > contribute to free fonts for those languages. But this won't happen > tomorrow... They have free fonts; they have translators. The main missing component is support for the scripts. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Falshe fridn iz beser vi a rikhtige krig. / A bad peace is better than a good war. - Yiddish Proverb -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
