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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Unicode Font



Hi Dirk,

Am 17.06.2012 16:22, schrieb Dirk Hünniger:
I need a font that covers full 16 bit Unicode. I need in normal,
italic, bold and bolditalic. And I need it serif, teletyper and
smallcaps. Thus its 12 .ttf files. I need it because I want to write

I don't know if any font has *full* unicode coverage. I think GNU Unifont comes closest to this (but you already know about it), GNU Freefont does also have a decent coverage, and last but not least Dejavu:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DejaVu_fonts#Coverage>

LaTeX documents which can contain any character from that range, and I
can not safely change the font in one LaTeX because of technical
limitations of LaTeX (changing fonts inside headings is not allowed
but needed). If you got such a font, just tell me and I will be happy.
If you don't I already made my own combining (wqyzenhei + unifont +
freeserif + linuxlibertine). According to

http://wiki.debian.org/Fonts/PackagingPolicy

its is simple to create a package and I will do this. But I would like
to get it included into debian, and that is why I here first.

To be honest, I don't think Debian needs packages of a "bastardized" font that is composed of other fonts that are already packaged in Debian. No offense intended, but I understood that this is what you proposed to do.

 - Fabian



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