The sophie team has been working on all these Font related issues.   
You are welcome to download a copy via http://www.sophieproject.org/  
and try your national font out.


On Dec 13, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Viktor Svub wrote:

> Hi,
> one of the things that hinders me in using Squeak (and I believe a  
> lot of non-native english speakers too) is the its' lack of support  
> for free & nice-looking national fonts.
> There is sure the posiibility to load any TTF font file, and the  
> resulting TextStyle has the right emphasis for bold and italic  
> styles, and character kerning, but... the rendering is that plain  
> ugly, it makes the style unusable for longer work.
> The other way might be loading a TTF as a HostFont (StrikeFont),  
> which is (in most cases) very nice and looks almost as clean as a  
> bitmap font, but... for the free, almost completely nationalized  
> "Bitstream Vera" font family, the Italic style is broken (too wide  
> chars and no kerning at all).
> I'm not a Squeak expert, and i have still some problems  
> understanding the whole textstyle/font thing and it's creation/ 
> rendering mechanics in particular, not talking about fixing it...
> Is there any work done (or in progress) to make the HostFonts  
> properly load and use the complete font info (emphasis, kerning)  
> for all styles (and maybe to speed up the rendering) of these fonts?
> Thanks for every suggestion.
> Viktor Svub
>

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