Re: [g-i] fonts: a few thoughts
On 12/2/05, Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> > I did some experiments with Arabic fonts after we discussed [2]: I
> > used fontforge ([3]) to remove "by hand" arabic glyps from
> > FreeSerif.ttf, and tried the mini.iso: the installer picked some better
> > fonts for Arabic text (and size was about 20kb smaller) So my idea was
> > to use the scripting language of fontforge to strip the unneeded glyphs
> > from fonts files at build time; something like mklibs (mkfonts?)
>
> Sounds nice, but will you not risk having some fonts which don't harmonize
> well with the others of the font set ?
Hell with harmony :-D, let's have some nice fonts! I recomend deja-vu
for central european languages.
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Regards,
EddyP
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