I first made Everson Mono glyphs in 8-bit font sets in 1994. I've
always been a perfectionist, but huge fonts are just so huge...
there's never a good time to release, so why not now? (Several people
have written to nag me about it.
Anyway, while there are gaps in this font, of co
At 20:10 +0200 2002-08-27, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
>But there you don't get a recent easily installable Unicode version,
>except for one for MacOS X Server.
Well you could complain to me. :-)
>The version for download there has
>discouraging remarks such as "Yet means as of 1996-06-02".
Yes,
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Michael Everson wrote:
> Anyway, while there are gaps in this font, of course there are gaps
> in all the other fonts out there as well. Announcing, then, the
> biggest monowidth font I'm aware of Please see
> http://www.evertype.com/emono/
Well, since many of us can't
At 18:44 +0330 2003-02-14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us
the number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any
bigger monowidth font?
7,072
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
Well, to be honest, I know of a monowidth font that may have more glyphs
than Everson Mono. But I guess that doesn't count, since it's a
single-application font. The SC Unipad's internal font:
http://www.unipad.org/
roozbeh
I first made Everson Mono glyphs in 8-bit font sets in 1994. I've
always been a perfectionist, but huge fonts are just so huge...
there's never a good time to release, so why not now? (Several
people have written to nag me about it.
Very interesting. I've been using Code2000,
At 07:25 AM 2/14/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
At 18:44 +0330 2003-02-14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us the
number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any bigger
monowidth font?
7,072
Andale Mono WT from Monotype has
At 09:12 -0800 2003-02-14, John Hudson wrote:
At 07:25 AM 2/14/2003, Michael Everson wrote:
At 18:44 +0330 2003-02-14, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
Well, since many of us can't open that on a PC, would you tell us
the number of glyphs so we can correct you if we found about any
bigger monowidth
Basic Latin
Latin 1
Latin Extended-A
Latin Extended-B
IPA Extensions
Spacing Modifier Letters
Combining Diacritical Marks
Greek and Coptic
Cyrillic
Cyrillic Supplement
Armenian
Hebrew
Georgian
Cherokee
Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics
Ogham
Runic
Phonetic Extensions
Latin Extended Additional
G
John Hudson wrote:
> Andale Mono WT from Monotype has 50,422 glyphs. At least, that's how
> many the slightly old version I have contains. My guess is that they
> have a newer version with more glyphs.
I can't relate. The version of "Andale Mono" (no "WT") that ships with
Windows 2000 has aroun
At 04:03 PM 2/15/2003, Doug Ewell wrote:
John Hudson wrote:
> Andale Mono WT from Monotype has 50,422 glyphs. At least, that's how
> many the slightly old version I have contains. My guess is that they
> have a newer version with more glyphs.
I can't relate. The version of "Andale Mono" (no "
.
Doug Ewell wrote,
> ...
> Map (or the Web page) to find those that would display my text. So I'd
> like to know if there is an easier way to find out which fonts support
> character X, or failing that, if the OT and TT specs are written in such
> a way that I could write my own program to do th
On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 07:22 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could pick up the old TTFDUMP.EXE program from Microsoft Typography
developer's web pages at
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/creators.htm
This utility can dump any or all of the tables in a TTF/OTF into
a plain text f
On 02/15/2003 06:03:13 PM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
>On a somewhat related note, here's a utility I'd like: something that
>could look inside a TrueType or OpenType font and tell me what Unicode
>code points it covers (i.e. has one or more glyphs for).
Have you tried the CharacterMap program that come
wrote:
> Have you tried the CharacterMap program that comes with Windows 2000
> and WinXP?
Yes, of course. I mentioned originally that I had to plug each font
into Character Map, one by one, to find out what characters were
supported by each. This was tedious and labor-intensive, and so I
look
On 02/18/2003 12:02:39 AM "Doug Ewell" wrote:
>Yes, of course. I mentioned originally that I had to plug each font
>into Character Map, one by one, to find out what characters were
>supported by each. This was tedious and labor-intensive, and so I
>looked for something easier. TTFDUMP looks mos
At 23:30 +0200 2002-08-27, Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
>ME> I do not know whether my fonts will work on Windows,
>
>The version that ships with Kermit 95 2.0 not only works on Windows,
>it also is a godsend, except for some hinting problems, especially
>with the "i" dot.
The Kermit team asked me to
>>But there you don't get a recent easily installable Unicode version,
>>except for one for MacOS X Server.
ME> Well you could complain to me. :-)
I dimly recall asking you about a year ago whether you could integrate
all the separate fonts into a big TTF when it wasn't possible for some
softwar
Yes, there are quite a few character-based (as opposed to GUI)
applications still in use. As they are designed for use with monspace
fonts, when they migrate to Unicode, they need a mono Unicode font to go
forward with.
tex
Philipp Reichmuth wrote:
> There's quite a lot of software that requires
Oh yeah, and Yijing Hexagram Symbols (*** nearly)
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
>I'm still trying to find a way to convert GNU Unifont (a *big* BDF
>birmap font) to some format digestible by Windows for such purposes,
>but so far I haven't had any success whatsoever.
Actually, it's in own format which can be converted to BDF.
Someone converted an older version to ttf: See
S> The people working on XFree86 have plans to convert the BDF's and
S> PCF's that come with X to TTF fonts with one blank scalable glyph
S> and the actual data stored in a bitmap data in the font. (It's actually
S> a better format for the problem in many ways. Go figure.) I don't
S> know if Micro
/chris.lamoureux2/
- rick
-Original Message-
From: Doug Ewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, 15 February 2003 16:03
To: Unicode Mailing List
Subject: Re: Everson Mono
On a somewhat related note, here's a utility I'd like: something that could
look inside a TrueType or OpenType fon
> From: Doug Ewell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> On a somewhat related note, here's a utility I'd like: something that
could
> look inside a TrueType or OpenType font and tell me what Unicode code
points
> it covers (i.e. has one or more glyphs for).
Try FontExpert 2003 for Windows:
http://www.pro
.
Font-related accessory developers please note:
What would really be handy is a feature that allowed the user
to enter a Unicode character or string of characters into an
input field which would result in a display listing all
installed fonts and showing the character or string in each
listed fa
On 17/02/2003 20:01:51 Rick Cameron wrote:
>TrueType Explorer can do this and more.
I gave TTE a try and it definitely has some interesting and useful
features. To get some answers to a few questions, I have corresponded with
the author and he has given me permission to post the following:
-
Doug Ewell wrote:
>On a somewhat related note, here's a utility I'd like: something that
could
>look inside a TrueType or OpenType font and tell me what Unicode code
points
>it covers (i.e. has one or more glyphs for)
Here's one more very useful tool to choose from:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/
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