[NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

2009-01-12 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, I think the two font families are distributed by URW in free licence? Yue Wang ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

2009-01-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Yue Wang wrote: Hi, I think the two font families are distributed by URW in free licence? The license of URW Garamond prohibits modification so it can not be imporved upon bt the TeX Gyre project, and the Symbol font will not benefit from Gyre-ification due to its symbolic (non-text)

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

2009-01-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Yue Wang wrote: Hi, I think the two font families are distributed by URW in free licence? The license of URW Garamond prohibits modification so it can not be imporved upon bt the TeX Gyre project, Sorry, I have to rephrase that. The license is such that any

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

2009-01-12 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
and the Symbol font will not benefit from Gyre-ification due to its symbolic (non-text) nature. Symbol fonts are basically Times-like typefaces with Greek glyphs and some additional symbols used in math; the Greek letters are already present in the TeX

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

2009-01-12 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Taco, Thanks for your clear explanation! as had been pointed out by you, TeX Gyre project is a font development effort, not a redistribution. So why don't we develop our own flavor of Garamond? Yue Wang On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:14 PM, Taco Hoekwater t...@elvenkind.com wrote:

Re: [NTG-context] Why Garamond and Symbol are not included in TeX Gyre ?

2009-01-12 Thread Arthur Reutenauer
So why don't we develop our own flavor of Garamond? Because there is enough work with the seven typefaces that are already being worked on? Arthur ___ If your question is of interest to others as well,