Re: Registration of Tetex suplied fonts
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Yannick Gingras wrote:
> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> writes:
>
>> The Euler fonts have been designed for math use, hence the spacing when
>> used for text is much to wide. In addition, this font uses a really odd
>> encoding, has no accented characters etc. So while it is a beautiful
>> font (designer: Herman Zapf!), one can't use it for text setings without
>> some further invlovement from a font designer.
>
> I don't think any of the fonts in ttf-larabie-uncommon and
> ttf-larabie-deco are usable for text processing but they are still
> convenient for flyers and logos.
I don't know these fonts very well, but looking at some of them on
larabiefonts.com, it looks as if they cover a sensible glyph range, have
sensible encoding, sensible spacing etc. This is not the case here.
> In fact, I was looking for a black
> letter font for a logo myself:
>
> http://bioinfo.uqam.ca/~gingras_y/dd-test-6.png
Please never ever use black letter fonts in all caps settings. These
glyphs where not made for that. BTW, on
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm
you will find many black letter fonts of different style that can be
readily used.
>> The ygoth font has already been converted to Type 1 format, see
>> CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/yfonts/ on <URL:http://www.ctan.org/>. These fonts
>> are not included in teTeX,
>
> You mean the type1 right? I see ygoth.mf in tetex-extra:
>
> $ dpkg -L tetex-extra | grep ygoth.mf
> /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/source/public/gothic/ygoth.mf
This is a metafont source file, not a Type1 font which would have
extension pfb or pfa. I know no application from outside the TeX world
that can use metafont fonts.
>> though. And again, while these fonts are meant for text processing,
>> I don't think it can be used in a sensible way without TeX. The
>> encoding is really strange, there are many ligatures in the font,
>> etc.
>
> I'm really not familiar with typesetting but doesn't TTF support
> ligatures?
It's not a problem of the font format, but of application support.
cheerio
ralf
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