Re: [9fans] Fonts: PostScript 229 and 315 glyphes

2011-05-26 Thread tlaronde
On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:29:05PM +0200, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > There are two versions (see Redbook, E.5): standard (0229 glyphes) and > extended (0315 glyphes). Certainly not 0229 in octal... Must be 229 different letters? signs? in total. -- Thierry Laronde

[9fans] Fonts: PostScript 229 and 315 glyphes

2011-05-26 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Since I'm moving to the 1.0 release of kerTeX, there is one area that I need to tidy up: fonts. The support for utf-8/runes will have to be put (later) in the compilation, replacing the xord[] handling. This is the gestion of the input. In the meantime, the use of tcs(1) to convert to som

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-15 Thread Russ Cox
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 2:01 PM, David Leimbach wrote: > Just tried this from the mercurial snapshot from last night. > fontsrv appears to work but complains about fuse not being set up properly. > Does this mean acme is not going to work? > Should I be asking this on the plan9port mailing list? N

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-15 Thread David Leimbach
Just tried this from the mercurial snapshot from last night. fontsrv appears to work but complains about fuse not being set up properly. Does this mean acme is not going to work? Should I be asking this on the plan9port mailing list? On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Russ Cox wrote: > This conv

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Federico G. Benavento
ie=utf-8 works fine On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Chad Brown wrote: > On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: > > ; hget  http://google.gr/ > > content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7"> > > i'm pretty sure that ISO-8859-7 != utf-8. > > I guess that's server-side mucking about bas

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Chad Brown
On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote: ; hget http://google.gr/ content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7"> i'm pretty sure that ISO-8859-7 != utf-8. I guess that's server-side mucking about based on user-agent not reporting utf-8 capability or something stupid. Firefox page

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 22:25:17 -0700 Russ Cox wrote: > This conversation reminded me that I have been > meaning to clean up a program I wrote a while back > and integrate it into plan9port. It generates Plan 9 > bitmap fonts on demand using the native window > system fonts. Right now it only works

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-09 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 23:17:22 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > > Which vera font? I just looked up http://google.gr/ in Firefox & pasted the > > text into a terminal using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono & don't see any missing > > letters. Nor do I if I set the font to Bitstream Vera Sans or Serif, or >

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Russ Cox
This conversation reminded me that I have been meaning to clean up a program I wrote a while back and integrate it into plan9port. It generates Plan 9 bitmap fonts on demand using the native window system fonts. Right now it only works on OS X. I would gladly accept X11 support and OS X bug fixes

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> Which vera font? I just looked up http://google.gr/ in Firefox & pasted the > text into a terminal using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono & don't see any missing > letters. Nor do I if I set the font to Bitstream Vera Sans or Serif, or > Bitstream Charter i don't recall. the date on the original con

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 17:51:58 -0400 erik quanstrom wrote: > i use the vera fonts in abaco (the fonts are also available > for linux) but the coverage is very poor. π is the only > greek letter available. Which vera font? I just looked up http://google.gr/ in Firefox & pasted the text into a term

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:51 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Yes, but with all the work in Acme and Sam, I've become quite >> accustomed to having ` look nice. It just makes the browser look out >> of place. It's not just the tick either, I'd like the browser font to >> generally look the same. > > tha

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> Yes, but with all the work in Acme and Sam, I've become quite > accustomed to having ` look nice. It just makes the browser look out > of place. It's not just the tick either, I'd like the browser font to > generally look the same. that's hard. i haven't found one yet that looks good in both a

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:47 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> > The enlightened use ' and " for all kinds of single and double quotes, >> > because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them >> > properly. Also, few things in the world look worse than seeing a quote >> > done ``like this''

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:44 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Speaking of that, is there a way to do the reverse, to get plan 9 >> Bigelow fonts that Linux can use? I'm sick of my browser not knowing >> that the character left of the 1 on my keyboard is an open-quote. > > maybe this is your problem: > >

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J.R. Mauro
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:50 PM, John Floren wrote: > Remember, only heathens use ` to begin a quote. > > The enlightened use ' and " for all kinds of single and double quotes, > because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them > properly. Also, few things in the world look worse tha

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> > The enlightened use ' and " for all kinds of single and double quotes, > > because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them > > properly. Also, few things in the world look worse than seeing a quote > > done ``like this'' in a monospace font. > > > > Pff, I'm not a heather, I'm

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread John Floren
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, J. R. Mauro wrote: > > > > > On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood wrote: > >> >> On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >>> >>> Does >>> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info >>> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF woul

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> Speaking of that, is there a way to do the reverse, to get plan 9 > Bigelow fonts that Linux can use? I'm sick of my browser not knowing > that the character left of the 1 on my keyboard is an open-quote. maybe this is your problem: ; unicode '`' 0060 ; look 0060 /lib/unicode 0060grave

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread erik quanstrom
> Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give you a process > something like drawing your font, or even modifying one of the handful > of 'open-source' fonts, like Inconsolata. There is a ttf2subf program > (http://mirtchovski.com/p9/freetype/) that will, I think, convert the > Fontforg

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood wrote: On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Josh Wood
On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: Does anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give you a process something like drawing your font, or

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jul 8, 2009, at 15:00, "Devon H. O'Dell" wrote: I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally o

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Bakul Shah
> But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about > 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize > that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does > anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info > on subfonts

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Stewart
I think I'll start all of my work correspondence with this sentence. ;-). -joe On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Joseph Stewart wrote: > I can't help at all, but the first sentence made me shoot soda out my > nose laughing. > > -joe > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >> I ha

Re: [9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Joseph Stewart
I can't help at all, but the first sentence made me shoot soda out my nose laughing. -joe On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are > baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. > > But how do you make

[9fans] Fonts

2009-07-08 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
I have very little idea about these fuckers. I know there are baselines and ideas about m's and n's and kerning and whatnot. But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize that I have zero idea of how fo

Re: [9fans] fonts for X11

2008-05-17 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
I believe that was the same problem I had. Compare it to /n/sources/ contrib/pietro/fgbX11.errors. On May 17, 2008, at 6:33 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get, from /n/sources: tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5.eten-0.enc.gz: 'big5.eten-0.enc.gz' permission denied tar: can'

[9fans] fonts for X11

2008-05-17 Thread lucio
I get, from /n/sources: tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5.eten-0.enc.gz: 'big5.eten-0.enc.gz' permission denied tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz: 'big5hkscs-0.enc.gz' permission denied tar: can't open ape/X11/fonts/encodings/large/cns11643-1.enc.g