On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:32:16 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > On 03/29/2008 01:39 PM, NoOp wrote: > > On 03/28/2008 11:24 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> I depend on the Junicode font for linguistics work. Recently I have > >> been forced to install version 6.15 (the latest, July, 2007) for > >> purposes of compatibility with other users and web sites. > >> Unfortunately, the kerning is completely wrong for the italic font. It > >> looks as though OOo is ignoring the kerning tables and treating it as a > >> monotype font. > >> > >> No one on Windows or Mac tells me they have this problem with this > >> font. Indeed, I have OOo/Windows installed in Windows 2000 running in a > >> virtual machine on my Ubuntu computer. The same font is installed there > >> and the italic looks fine. > >> > >> I have regenerated the cache and even rebooted the computer, but no > >> luck. Can someone else with OOo 2.3 on Linux verify for me that the > >> italic version of this font does or does not work?
> > I can try on OOo 2.3.1 and OOo 2.4.0 later today. > Interesting. When I use the junicode font from sourceforge (6.15) > italics appear exactly as when junicode-italic.ttf (and as they do with > 6.13) is double clicked in Nautilis. However if I use the junicode 6.15 > deb packackage supplied with Ubuntu Hardy: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/ttf-junicode > http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/all/ttf-junicode/filelist > > it is very different. > > To test I tried on: > > Gutsy - OOo 2.4.0 and OOo 2.3.1 > Hardy - (U)OOo 2.4.0 (which is rc1 btw) > > In order to make sure that I was using 6.15 from sourceforge, I purged > all junicode on my machine and then loaded the sourceforge junicode > fonts into my .fonts directory. First, the kerning issues are resolved. I don't know what I did, but the italic now appears on screen and prints using the font metrics correctly. However, there are still a couple of problems. First, I noticed just this morning that the combining diacritical for the syllabic mark does not work in italic. I can get around it just by setting that character to regular, but then it is not slanted as an italic character would be. Not a huge deal. I did not check the other combining diacriticals - will do that later. Another problem that I have had for some time is the beta (Unicode DF) and the theta (3B8). There is no regular version. They appear italic even when regular is applied. I have received an e-mail from Peter Baker explaining the problem. These two characters are mapped in the Greek page. And he designed Junicode to be for medievalists, so the Greek letters are slanted, as they would be in old texts. He has been aware of the problem for some time and is trying to figure out a solution. Meantime, the only thing I can do is use a different font for those characters. Unfortunately, the theta is required for English transcriptions, and the beta is required for Spanish and German, three languages that I work in a lot. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
