On Monday 07 October 2002 9:18 am, David Starner wrote: | 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.
ok, thanks for clarification. | | > 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 than this looks like problem of this "scientific publisher" only :-) | | > | > > 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. ok, than they should write scripts, too. I hardly see how FT is related to thier problem (if your explanation is right) -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html KDE mini-Themes http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
