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Re: [Groff] New PS Fonts package
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Larry Kollar |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] New PS Fonts package |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:16:37 -0500 |
Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> given the Unicode capabilities of the upcoming 1.19.3 it would be nice to
> create a set of fonts descriptions for some family of "unicode" fonts
> (with most of the glyphs groff can typeset - extended latin and cyrillic)
> and, may be,
> include it as an optional or contributed part of the groff distribution.
>
> What are the options for such a family?
> AFAIK the best URW derivatives now are Gyre fonts - they are PostScript,
> GPL, have lots of glyphs and are developed/mainatined.
>
> MS Core fonts look like an alternative - they are less free, TrueType -
> but they are MS!
>
> Please, post your opinion on the desirability of such font description
> package, choice of fonts etc.
DejaVu (forked version of Bitstream Vera family, includes support
for Greek & Cyrillic), would be nice to have supported by default.
http://dejavu.sf.net/
-- Larry