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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 3 20:32:52 +0000 2008 ------- tora->hdu: Thank you for giving us a chance to comment some. In sum, Japanese fonts, in general, do not use terms such as condense or oblique. They uses wight, instead. Microsoft Office Japanese uses traditional font faces: regular, bold, italic, and bold italic. Professional users from such as publishing use lots of fonts which are normally decorated with weight. For such users, artificial bold seems not a choice. They simply uses heavier wight of fonts, instead. Either italic or italic bold is probably not applied for Japanese characters and is not typically used for publishing. Both italic and italic bold are normally applied for Western letters. For historical reasons, Japanese often uses both Japanese characters and Western letters in a single document. For Japanese, many fonts are available: - Fonts embedded in Windows - Fonts released by font vendors, for professional use - Freely available fonts Fonts samples embedded in Windows Japanese and 2007 Microsoft Office System Japanese. Snapshots are available in the following web page: http://office.microsoft.com/ja-jp/2007/FX102141601041.aspx The first 5 fonts (MS UI Gothic to MS Pxx) in the web page are the fundamental fonts of Windows Japanese that are available from Windows 9x to Vista. Their font names begin with two letters 'MS.' The rests are the fonts that are accompanied with the Office System. Their font names begin with two letters 'HG.' Naming conventions MS [P]FontFamilyName none: Monotype (fixed width) P: Western proportional letter and Asian proportional character HG[P|S] FontFamilyName HG: The font vendor seems to add this two letters at the beginning none: Monotype (fixed width) P: Western proportional letter and Asian proportional character S: Western proportional letter and Asian monotype character Bold and Italic It seems that Windows is capable of rendering artificial bold and/or italic glyph. For font family メイリオ embedded in Windows Vista Japanese is ClearType and probably has four font faces. http://www.akibatec.net/wabunfont/library/windowsos/windowsos.html Many font vendors offer fonts files for professional use. Motoya co., ltd. http://www.motoyafont.jp/font_sample.html Naming conventions VendorName FontFamilyName # #: number that denotes weight. The smaller, thinner; the bigger, thicker. Morisawa & Company Ltd. http://www.morisawa.co.jp/font/fontlist/ Naming conventions FontFamilyName [L｜R｜M｜B｜EB｜H｜EH｜U] e.g. http://www.morisawa.co.jp/font/fontlist/details/fontfamily001.html http://www.morisawa.co.jp/font/fontlist/details/fontfamily001_2.html http://www.morisawa.co.jp/font/fontlist/details/pdf/RyuminKL_Family.pdf DynaComware Corp. e.g. http://www.dynacw.co.jp/dynafont/fontface/pdf_data/sample_tt600w_v.pdf http://www.dynacw.co.jp/dynafont/fontface/pdf_data/sample_ot_p9.pdf Naming conventions VendorName FontFamilyName W# #: number that denotes weight. Useful web site that lists links for font vendors: http://www.akibatec.net/wabunfont/library.html Freely available fonts A web site listing freely available fonts: http://www.akibatec.net/wabunfont/freefont/freefont.html e.g. http://www.akibatec.net/wabunfont/freefont/pro1.html Naming conventions VendorName FontFamilyName W# #: number that denotes weight. http://www.akibatec.net/wabunfont/freefont/ama-d.html Major Linux distributions come with some Japanese fonts. Sazanami http://sourceforge.jp/projects/efont/ sazanami mincho and sazanami gothic solely have one font face. IPA http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/ INFORMATION-TECHNOLOGY PROMOTION AGENCY, JAPAN releases freely available fonts called IPA fonts, (not International Phonetic Alphabet), that resemble the fundamental five fonts of Windows Japanese. The fonts have been widely spread among Linux users. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-bugs-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-bugs-list
