Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread James Kass
Edward H. Trager wrote, > ... I was also thinking > about the issue of how do you get the highly qualified designers > interested in such a project? > ₥¤₦€¥ ₮A₤₭$ Best regards, James Kass.

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Everson
Michka is right. The "free font" vs "commercial font" argument comes from the TYPO-L list, and probably isn't appropriate to this forum. -- Michael Everson *** Everson Typography *** http://www.evertype.com

RE: Double Macrons on "gh"...

2002-08-30 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Robert Wheelock asked: > Recently, I read some messages saying that there're 3 new > double-wide overstruck accents are proposed for Unicode: Umm. Well, they aren't "double-wide" and they aren't "overstruck", and their names are not: > 035D: double-wide breve > 035E: double-wide macron > 035F

RE: Double Macrons on "gh"...

2002-08-30 Thread Robert
Hello, Unicoders! Recently, I read some messages saying that there're 3 new double-wide overstruck accents are proposed for Unicode: 035D: double-wide breve 035E: double-wide macron 035F: double-wide underbar (d-w combining low line) Please send me more info (and some documentation) on those ac

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Edward H Trager
On Fri, 30 Aug 2002, Michael Everson wrote: > At 11:00 -0400 2002-08-30, Edward H Trager wrote: > > >The solution is to use collaborative Open Source development methodologies > >to produce one or more high-quality, operating system and vendor-neutral > >TTF and OpenType unicode fonts. Resultin

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Curtis Clark
I wrote: > Until I c ... Some of you had as much trouble with my XML entities as I might have had with Jarkko's U+ codes. Here is the transliteration: "Until I converted Jarkko's text, I wondered if he wasn't trying to make a Unicode form of rot13, so that readers could choose not to be offe

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Only because so few people think that fonts are worth paying for that > people who really OUGHT to be earning their living by making fonts > have to do other things. There's something really wrong with that > model. Isn't there? Of course, one could

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael \(michka\) Kaplan
What scares me was that I puzzled that out almost instantly -- I felt like I was watching Wheel of Fortune or something. ;-) MichKa - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 9:03 AM Subject: RE: Romanized Cyr

RE: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Everson
At 13:35 -0400 2002-08-30, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kudos do not pay the rent. And altruism can run out when the rent >> needs to be paid ;-) > >Very true. But you make the hasty assumption that font designing is the >activity creating the money for paying the rent. Only because so f

RE: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread jarkko.hietaniemi
> Kudos do not pay the rent. And altruism can run out when the rent > needs to be paid ;-) Very true. But you make the hasty assumption that font designing is the activity creating the money for paying the rent.

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Curtis Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>And who pays the poor font designer for his work? > > > U+0041 U+006C U+0074 U+0072 U+0075 U+0069 U+0073 U+006D U+0020 U+006F U+0072 U+0020 >U+006B U+0075 U+0064 U+006F U+0073 U+002C U+0020 U+006D U+0061 U+0079 U+0062 U+0065 >U+003F Reminds me of a line by a standup

RE: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Everson
At 12:03 -0400 2002-08-30, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And who pays the poor font designer for his work? > >U+0041 U+006C U+0074 U+0072 U+0075 U+0069 U+0073 U+006D U+0020 >U+006F U+0072 U+0020 U+006B U+0075 U+0064 U+006F U+0073 U+002C >U+0020 U+006D U+0061 U+0079 U+0062 U+0065 U+003F "Altru

RE: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread jarkko.hietaniemi
> And who pays the poor font designer for his work? U+0041 U+006C U+0074 U+0072 U+0075 U+0069 U+0073 U+006D U+0020 U+006F U+0072 U+0020 U+006B U+0075 U+0064 U+006F U+0073 U+002C U+0020 U+006D U+0061 U+0079 U+0062 U+0065 U+003F

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Michael Everson
At 11:00 -0400 2002-08-30, Edward H Trager wrote: >The solution is to use collaborative Open Source development methodologies >to produce one or more high-quality, operating system and vendor-neutral >TTF and OpenType unicode fonts. Resulting fonts would be copyrighted and >released under a well

Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Edward H Trager
This message is in response to the previous messages in this thread. There *IS* a viable solution to the whole problem of "adding a few extra characters" to a font without having to wade into the potential legal morass of individual font vendor's intellectual property rights: The solution is to

Re: Revised proposal for "Missing character" glyph

2002-08-30 Thread Peter_Constable
On 08/28/2002 05:38:05 PM "Doug Ewell" wrote: >Edit controls (edit boxes, text widgets) in Windows already come >equipped with a right-click menu... >It's not hard to imagine that menu being extended with a "Character >Info" or "What's This Glyph?" item... >Of course, I have no idea if such a t

Re: [OT] looking for electronic dictionaries

2002-08-30 Thread James E. Agenbroad
On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Eric Muller wrote: > For my personal use, I would like to acquire electronic dictionaries, > principally for the major European languages, with the following > characteristics: > > - reputable source > > - "raw" datafiles accessible - I appreciate the interfaces that > d

Re: [Possibly off-topic] Fonts for experimental usage. (spins off from Re: Romanized Cyrillic bibliographic data--viable fonts?)

2002-08-30 Thread Tex Texin
I'll summarize what I think the mail is about interspersed with my opinions. William Overington wrote: 1) Quotes mail from Kass and Constable 2) Summarizes same mail. 3) Questions if James suggestion to ask font developer for additional character is practical. In my experience it is. Clearly