Cyrillic repertoire is indeed important. A lot of cyrillic glyphs look exactly the same as some Latin one - for example A, E, C (but it is s in cyrillic), B (ve) etc. Actually cyrillic is the repertoire most easily implemented if one has the Latin counterparts (if you compare for example Greek, Hebrew, Georgian etc.) al_shopov
As Juliusz had a Vadim Plessky wrote: > > On Thursday 01 November 2001 05:38, Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov wrote: > | On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > | > Hello to all, > | > > | > I have just submitted the new Bigelow & Holmes Luxi (formerly Lucidux) > | > fonts for inclusion in XFree86; they are available to XFree86 members > | > as patch number 5010. > | > > | > Main news: > | > > | > - bold versions are available, leading to a complete family (r, i, b > | > and b-i); > | > - both Type 1 and TrueType versions (both under the same name; users > | > can choose which one they get by setting their font path); > | > - expanded glyph repertoire (brand new punctuation characters, > | > leading to full coverage of both Adobe Standard and Windows glyph > | > collections). > | > | A question from non-XFree86 member: do these new versions include > | cyrillic (and, maybe, greek) glyphs, or is the repertoire still limited > | to latin? > | > > Yes, this would be nice to have Cyrillic glyphs in those fonts. > Note that it will allow to use Xfree86 not only for Russian users (as > Cyrillic is mostly associated with Russian language), but for Bulgarian, > Macedonian, Serbian, Ukranian, Belorussian people. > (at a moment, the only reasonable solution for Cyrillic-speaking users is to > use MS web fonts.) > I am speaking about potential market/territory with >250mln. people. > > | _________________________________________ > | Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov > | The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics > | Novosibirsk, Russia > | > | _______________________________________________ > | Fonts mailing list > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts > > -- > > Vadim Plessky > http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) > 33 Window Decorations and 6 Widget Styles for KDE > http://kde2.newmail.ru/kde_themes.html > KDE mini-Themes > http://kde2.newmail.ru/themes/ > _______________________________________________ > Fonts mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
