Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
/../
> Probably the best solution is to load the Wadalab font into FontForge,
> then squeezing the katakana glyphs horizontally and adding them to the
> font... However, the results are too thin, I fear.
OK, haven't played with Fontforge before, will see what I can do over
the weekend. As you know, the half-width look rather odd interspersed
in normal text, no way to tell how it will look until I try.
>> 1. How can one get a font test output that shows all the font's
>> glyphs in at least one typeface?
>
> I think it makes more sense to use a font editor like FontForge (which
> I highly recommend) to inspect the glyphs.
OK, will try that route.
>> 2. If wadalab does not include all characters (AFAIK, mixed styles
>> in Japanese in LaTeX are already done out of need, since support
>> for Level 3 kanji is not sufficient in all fonts, so other fonts
>> need to be substituted sometimes), are there alternative
>> preferred fonts that might be better?
>
> I'm not aware of other free Japanese fonts which really fit to the
> extremely thin look of the Wadalab fonts.
Oh, that is probably true. The Japanese tendency is to go for visually
overpowering fonts with lots of life. Makes presentations, posters,
and announcements a royal pain to read! Still, does this mean that
you've decided to base the CJK package entirely on wadalab as far as
the Japanese fonts go?
>> 3. I am not capable of doing much coding with latex macros yet, so I
>> wonder what useful font manipulation could at present NOT be
>> provided in CJK with UTF-8 encoding even if decent fonts are
>> available?
>
> What do you mean with `font manipulation'? Except doing poor-man's
> emboldening by printing glyphs thrice with slight offsets, no font
> manipulation can be done directly in LaTeX. /../
Ah, sorry, I meant issues like the coding recently with the vertical
fonts, to allow LaTeX to find the gylyphs correctly.
>> 4. I have several high-quality Epson TTFs /../
>
> I won't incorporate them into the CJK package. Instead, I suggest
> that you create proper RPM bundles which could be then included
> directly into a GNU/Linux distribution like SuSE. Perhaps it makes
> sense to contact Mike Fabian from SuSE who has done something similar
> already, IIRC, using scripts which can do this automatically.
OK, will try it for myself first and then go from there.
I'll report back on the weekend.
Regards,
Gernot
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