Some programs have problems with the two different widths unifont uses (e.g. KDE konsole). Therefore I have written a quick hack for hex2bdf, which shrinks all...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Sep 22, 2001 9:25 pm
Hi again! I must be having a really boring week-end... I drew the rest of the UCAS block U+15D0-U+166C as well as all the remaining Arabic ligatures of two...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Sep 22, 2001 9:37 am
Hi! I made a few improvements to characters used in IPA. First of all, I made the end hook of some implosive, retroflex and palatal consonants more clear (so...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Sep 21, 2001 7:13 pm
Hi! ... No problem. At least now I had time to make further improvements to the font. Here attached is the Syriac block (U+0700-U+074F) as a whole. I designed...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Sep 17, 2001 7:21 pm
... Thanks! I'm getting behind in school work, though, so it may be a while before I get the next version out. Sorry. -- David Starner -...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Sep 17, 2001 4:25 am
Hi! Here attached is my suggestion for improvements in the Arabic blocks (the basis being Behdad Esfahbod's versions). I included also those ligatures that...
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sullivan@...
Sep 2, 2001 4:52 am
This is a HTML document. If you are unable to view this page, copy this link http://www.fotoasia.com/email/HTML/newsletter/newsletter_200109.html ...
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Markus Kuhn
mgk25@...
Aug 6, 2001 11:54 am
... No, please not. If your application wants to show a combining character with dashed/dotted circle, then it should simply prefix it with the base character...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Aug 6, 2001 11:17 am
... Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 19:26:13 -0000 From: andrewnikitin@... To: Miikka-Markus Alhonen <Miikka-Markus.Alhonen@...> Subject: Re: Next...
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Markus Kuhn
mgk25@...
Aug 2, 2001 5:45 pm
... Not all fonts show in the Braille patterns the missing dots as empty circles. I wrote my Perl script for the -misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1 fonts. Which blocks...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Aug 2, 2001 3:00 am
From: Miikka-Markus Alhonen <Miikka-Markus.Alhonen@...> ... day-time ... No need to apologize; we're all volunteers here. I really appreciate you ...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Aug 2, 2001 12:07 am
Hi! ... Before you apply the centering to the font, I would like to remind you that also the Devanagari block (except for the numbers and punctuation) ...
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Miikka-Markus Alhonen
Miikka-Markus.Alhonen...
Jul 30, 2001 11:06 pm
Hello! Sorry that my answer took so long, but I've been rather busy with my day-time job lately :(. First I would comment on some miscellaneous stuff on the...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 30, 2001 7:10 am
Oh, and . . . the last release changing the X font name was a mistake. I overlooked the change in hextobdf. Should it stay gnu-fixed, or go back to ...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 30, 2001 6:36 am
I've made a decision about the next Unifont release. First, it's going to be between September 5 and September 15th. I'm going to adapt the center program (by...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 14, 2001 9:03 am
... Fine. As I said, if you need a license, take "My work is in the public domain" as a license....
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Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
edmundo@...
Jul 13, 2001 9:15 pm
... If I recall correctly, an international treaty on copyright states that a citizen of country X gets the same rights in country Y as a citizen of country Y,...
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Markus Kuhn
Markus.Kuhn@...
Jul 13, 2001 6:45 am
... $left is the number of white columns on the left side in the glyph $right is the number of white columns on the right side in the glyph $exclude is a flag...
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Markus Kuhn
Markus.Kuhn@...
Jul 12, 2001 12:11 am
... With a little pice of code that shifts the other characters. I have written one that does this to get the misc-fixed fonts consistent, but it runs on BDF...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 12, 2001 12:03 am
... Thanks. Note that problems like these probably won't get fixed unless people point out and fix them. I certainly never could have told whether that was ...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 11, 2001 11:48 pm
... That was Roman's original license. I'm an American, and American laws do not allow copyright on bitmap fonts. Any work I do on the Unifont is therefore in...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 11, 2001 11:40 pm
... [...] ... Why? It wouldn't take more than 15 minutes to write a script that took every character with a column free on one side and moved that column to...
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andrewnikitin@...
Jul 11, 2001 8:53 pm
... keeping ... already I agree that leaving rightmost column free is the most common practice. It also has some additional benefits, at least for cyrillic ...
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Bruno Haible
haible@...
Jul 11, 2001 12:26 pm
... It's not clear whether this license covers only your additions, or also Roman's original font. What is Roman's original license? Bruno...
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Alejandros Diamandidis
ADIA@...
Jul 11, 2001 9:07 am
... All important Greek characters are available precomposed. In some fields (eg. dialect transcription) you can find characters that need composing...
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Markus Kuhn
mgk25@...
Jul 11, 2001 8:31 am
... By the way, for the -misc-fixed-* fonts, we have standardized on keeping the *rightmost* columns free to separate characters, which was already what the...
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David Starner
dstarner98@...
Jul 11, 2001 5:30 am
I'm sorry for all the crossposts - I should have specified lists to reply to. This pair is good, so long as we're talking about both the Unifont and X fonts....
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andrewnikitin@...
Jul 11, 2001 1:03 am
Hi, I have noticed that the new release still contains ugly versions of cyrillic letter de: 0414: -------- ... --#---#- --#---#- --#---#- -#----#- -#----#- ...
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andrewnikitin@...
Jul 10, 2001 11:46 pm
Hello, all. I have just generated HUGE bitmap that contains every glyph from newly released unifont and uploaded it to Files section. Use it to make quick...
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Behdad Esfahbod
behdad@...
Jul 10, 2001 3:17 pm
... My last mail to gnu-unifont@yahoogroups.com failed, unfortunatly I didn't tried to findout where the problem is. ... You were right, then I tried to have a...
