On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Frank Küster wrote: > Miros/law Baran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1 > > GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toru?ska etc.) - I think such a package > > will be redundant. > > Well, tetex-base only has the afm and pfb files, along with some > TeX-specific stuff. There are no TrueType fonts; having them might be > worth a package. Is it even possible to directly use TeX fonts from a high-level GTK/whatever program without modifying the program in question? If so, it's way too unobvious for me...
> Which sources did you use - AFAIK the original format is Metafont? According to the papers upstream published, it was done using Metafont, Metapost and Metatype1, and _then_ heavily processed. The available formaps are Type1 and TTF, I used the latter. > Did you submit your new hinting to the upstream authors at gust.or.pl? Well, you're overestimating my part. What I did was _removing_ the existing hinting, as it's worse than no hints at all. I did attempt improving the upstream hinting, however, I noticed that simply letting FontForge autohint it gives astonishing results (mostly for the Regular and Bold variants). For example, the "e" glyph is a tiny bit below the line, making the original hints put the lowest part a pixel lower than it's the case for most other letters. FontForge can automatically correct this -- and so does FreeType's autohinter. It may be a coincidence that autohinting works so well here, or perhaps simply Poltawski did a very good job. GUST provides a number of other fonts, but the only other original one is Aktykwa Torunska. It doesn't look as good on the screen, however (but it's not bad either). Both fonts share the general resemblance, and the latter one has much wider charset coverage. Perhaps it may be a good idea to provide both in this package... your call. Anyway, a scientific poll conducted on three people proved that Antykwa Poltawskiego looks "much better" that Bitstream Vera for places where serif fonts fit. IMO they're right :p and good fonts are valuable, thus this ITP. 1KB -- /-----------------------\ Shh, be vewy, vewy quiet, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | I'm hunting wuntime ewwows! \-----------------------/ Segmentation fault (core dumped)
