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Re: Fonts for distribution



On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote:

> Gentium (a true Unicode font) has been released under the Open Font
> Licence:

 Gentium still is not free

 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341138

 (due the prohibition of license mod in deriv. works)

> We're not getting anywhere, apparently, with lobbying Bitstream about
> Vera, but I've written to the creator of Verajja and Gentium Alt
> about possible release of his fonts.

 Bistream Vera doesn't supports latin2 chars correctly. See ttf - dejavu
instead.

> Junicode is another true Unicode font:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode

 Junicode is also acceptable for Latin2.

> What others do we have? What do you think are our best true Unicode
> fonts for distribution, to support all localizations?

 I dunno. What about gsfonts, thryomanes?

 Hali: sas



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