Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-16 Thread Philip Newton
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 11:52:41 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Kogai) wrote: > * Reference Fixed Width (Misc TT? Courier Unicode? Monaco Unicode?) There was Everson Mono but that project appears to have stalled as well. Cheers, Philip

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-16 Thread Martin_Hosken
Dear Nick, >I would like to make this "easy" (e.g. in perl/Tk's Text widget), so user says I want 14-point font - I want there to be a (set of) font(s) for normal/bold/italic - now in certain spots in the codepoint space those will be pointing at same X font - as there is no alternative. What

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-15 Thread Dan Kogai
On 2002.02.15, at 19:27, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote: > When working with western scripts it is common to use bold and italic > to make things stand out. Now I can imagine that italic/oblique of > asian characters may not make sense - but how do users of such scripts > make the "standout" distinction -

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-15 Thread Andreas Marcel Riechert
> When working with western scripts it is common to use bold and italic > to make things stand out. Now I can imagine that italic/oblique of > asian characters may not make sense - but how do users of such scripts > make the "standout" distinction - colour? Italic and bold 'fonts' exist for Japa

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-15 Thread Markus Kuhn
Nick Ing-Simmons wrote on 2002-02-15 10:27 UTC: >> You will find that many of the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts have >> better coverage than Unifont. In particular, the fonts 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, >> 9x18, 10x20 cover the MES-3 repertoire of Unicode 3.0 completely, which >> covers all IPA glyphs. > >

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-15 Thread Nick Ing-Simmons
Dan Kogai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On 2002.02.15, at 06:36, Markus Kuhn wrote: >> Markus >> (XFree86 -misc-fixed-* font maintainer) > > Oh yes here comes Mr. Font! > >> You will find that many of the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts have >> better coverage than Unifont. In particular, the font

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-14 Thread Dan Kogai
On 2002.02.15, at 12:12, Markus Kuhn wrote: > What do you need a *single* font for that covers all languages? I doubt > that this is useful for any other purpose than printing the Unicode book > itself (and even that doesn't use a single font). Well, what I am working on (getting Encode to wor

Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-14 Thread Dan Kogai
On 2002.02.15, at 06:36, Markus Kuhn wrote: > Markus > (XFree86 -misc-fixed-* font maintainer) Oh yes here comes Mr. Font! > You will find that many of the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts have > better coverage than Unifont. In particular, the fonts 6x13, 8x13, 9x15, > 9x18, 10x20 cover the ME