perl-unicode

Re: Reference Unicode Fonts

2002-02-16 01:44:52



Dear Nick,

I would like to make this "easy" (e.g. in perl/Tk's Text widget),
so user says I want 14-point font - I want there to be a (set of) font(s)
for normal/bold/italic - now in certain spots in the codepoint space those
will be pointing at same X font - as there is no alternative.
What is a pain is if user then changes to 16-point font which sub-ranges
exist tend to change. So a lot of tedious probing of fonts occurs
and things get horribly slow.
This is what TrueType fonts score - if you can find one that looks
reasonable
at typical size and has the right repertoire you "know" that all sizes will
_exist_ - they may look naff if user chooses 11pt or some odd size - but
if they do they will not do that.

But to do Unicode at all well, you need smart rendering. May I suggest
taking a peak at graphite.sil.org?

SIL (www.sil.org) also have a reasonable starting point.

We are working on Roman and other scripts. But don't hold your breath for
complete coverage from us - certainly not for CJK. I doubt we will be doing
a fallback font even if we end up going for wide coverage.

Martin Hosken
Scripts Engineer
SIL International


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