Hi John, Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 20:01 schrieb John Jordan: > On 28 Jan 2006, at 18:09, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/ > > Christoph, > > Sehr sch?n! > > You have done a tremendous job! It is beautiful! I can't wait for the > rest of it to be finished! > > I am a student of linguistics and have been looking for a good > Unicode compliant font that is open source, attractive, and > complete, including the typographic niceties that are necessary for > publishing - like true small caps, ligatures, and so on. LinLibertine > looks like it will become my favorite!
I haven't done anything except posting the news here. ;) But I'm sure the developers will appreciate your praise :) > > Ich habe aber ein Paar Fragen: > > 1) I have an OpenOffice.org Writer test document with a table > where I listed all the characters of the IPA. I did it in a table so I > could select just the left column where the IPA characters are > displayed, and then apply different fonts to the row in order to see if > a font has all the characters. When I applied LinLibertine to the left > column some of the characters are blank (to be expected at this > point in the development), most have the LinLibertine character, > and others display the character but in some other font. When I > select one of these weird characters the toolbar still says it is > LinLibertine. But the font is a san serif that looks like a system > font. I don't understand how this can be. If the character does not > exist in LinLibertine it should just be blank. Either that or, if Linux > is substituting a system font for missing characters, then it should > have done so for the other missing characters instead of leaving > them blank. This puzzles me. > > 2) I am curious why you did not make this an OpenType font so > you could enable the automatic glyph substitution for ligatures and > so on that is a feature planned for future releases of Scribus. > > I'm going to use the font for a while to see if I find any bugs or > problems. In the meantime, thanks for doing such a beautiful job. > You are an artist! I recommend asking Philipp directly: PhilTheLion at users.sourceforge.net. Cheers, Christoph
