Hi all, ttf-mph-2b-damase is no longer developed by Mark Williamson, so I'm going to try and form a new team to provide upstream support for it. Can anyone provide suggestions as to which list(s) or individuals I should send the announcement to? There are several people who commented on the initial ITP a while ago, so they will be included. For the curious, the email exchange between Mark and I is below: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 06:06 -0700, Mark Williamson wrote: > On 06/02/07, Paul Wise wrote: > > > I note that fixedsys.org is still not back up. Have you updated MPH 2B > > Damase at all and placed it on a new website? If not, do you think it > > would be a good idea to convert it to a fontforge .sfd file or two, > > create a sourceforge or savannah project to maintain it on and solicit > > for maintainers amongst the free fonts community? I'm sure some of the > > people who commented on the debian package inclusion would help out. Do > > you know if it uses any features fontforge does not support? > > No, I haven't updated the font (although I did intend to at one point, > I'm pretty sure now it's not going to happen, at least not for a few > years) nor have I plaed it on a new website. I don't know if it uses > any features fontforge doesn't support -- the main issues that I would > anticipate are how diacritics are done (I don't remember the technical > terms, but the way I did it, iirc, is "illegal", where each > precomposed character actually calls upon the diacritic and the base > character and combines them on the spot), and the use of characters > beyond the BMP (although by now, any font editor that can't handle > that is essentially worthless, so I'm assuming that is not an issue > with fontforge). > > You and others are welcome to do any or all of the things you > suggested, I unfortunately do not have time right now. If nobody were > to end up doing it, I suppose I might eventually, but unfortunately I > am very much occupied in real life at the moment and don't anticipate > having much, if any, time to continue my amateur font foundring for > the next couple of years, although I would be happy to answer any > questions at all anyone might have about fonts or writing systems. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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