[GOODIE] X11Fonts (was RE: Adding Accufonts to the update stream)
Andreas Raab
andreas.raab at gmx.de
Wed Feb 26 00:55:09 UTC 2003
Yeah! Nice fonts! Thanks a lot. Hey, can you make up TTFs from those Type 1
fonts you were talking about?! I'd love to use them with Yoshiki's stuff too
;-)
Cheers,
- Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On
> Behalf Of Ian Piumarta
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 1:32 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: [GOODIE] X11Fonts (was RE: Adding Accufonts to the
> update stream)
>
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Daniel Vainsencher wrote:
>
> > That, IIUC, means both that no VM changes is needed, and that no
> > incompatibility is caused,
>
> See Andreas's reply on the issues (and my comments about "lossy"
> conversions in an earlier post).
>
> > in which case, it's merely a matter of creating another font package
> > to put SM, and either should be installable after the other.
>
> Just registered on SqueakMap: X11Fonts. It's a SAR that will install
> ISO-8859-15(Latin9)-encoded TimesRoman, Helvetica, Courier
> and Fixed in
> various point sizes as system fonts. Install tested in a
> vanilla 3.4g1
> image. Sorry if it breaks for anyone else: it's the first SAR I ever
> tried to build.
>
> Note that it does _not_ modify any existing fonts. (The Apple fonts
> remain installed and available.)
>
> Note also that left arrow is underscore in these fonts, and we need to
> think about how to deal with this. I'm for moving it to an
> unused slot in
> the encoding and then having a VM preference (or parameter or
> whatever) to
> have the `_' key (or whichever ;) reported as the new left
> arrow charcode.
> E.g., the range 127 through 159 (inclusive) is unused in 8859-15. 127
> would seem to be a good choice since it doesn't clash with WinLatin-x
> (should anyone decide to add the additional glyphs);
> otherwise 129, 141,
> 143, 144 and 157 are also unassigned in CP1252 (aka WinLatin1).
>
> This would of course leave somebody with the task of replacing all
> left arrow characters in the 3.5 .changes file with the new
> charcode and
> then convincing themselves that nothing broke in the process.
>
> If anyone wants to play with these in earnest (e.g., with the symbols,
> accented chars and ligatures working they way they should)
> then I would be
> prepared to make the corresponding VM modifications in my 3.5-devel
> sources and build new binaries. (But maybe not for a day or two.)
>
> Ian
>
>
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