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This is the area for dicsussions of the [[Font Common Room]] page. |
This is the area for dicsussions of the [[Font Common Room]] page. |
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''General Note'': Most (if not all) of the people involved in these pages they do so out of their free time and because they enjoy doing it. It's fun. These pages are being developed and are work in progress. If you have a comment, make it in a civilised manner. |
''General Note'': Most (if not all) of the people involved in these pages they do so out of their free time and because they enjoy doing it. It's fun. These pages are being developed and are work in progress. If you have a comment, make it in a civilised and modern manner. |
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The following paragraph was moved here from the [[Font Common Room]] page. It referes to the section that talks about fontconfig (sans, serif, monospace), etc. |
The following paragraph was moved here from the [[Font Common Room]] page. It referes to the section that talks about fontconfig (sans, serif, monospace), etc. |
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:This entire discussion seems to be ignorant of the development work that has been done, outside of the Linux community, in developping Unicode fonts. The prime example is [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium Gentium] which covers most of the scripts needed. Any work in improving coverage should add glyphs to existing Unicode fonts like Gentium. Also, please not that concepts such as sans, serif and monospace do not exist at all in many of the world's scripts. Most scripts also do not have upper/lower case distinctions. |
:This entire discussion seems to be ignorant of the development work that has been done, outside of the Linux community, in developping Unicode fonts. The prime example is [http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium Gentium] which covers most of the scripts needed. Any work in improving coverage should add glyphs to existing Unicode fonts like Gentium. Also, please not that concepts such as sans, serif and monospace do not exist at all in many of the world's scripts. Most scripts also do not have upper/lower case distinctions. |
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=== Work in progress === |
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! Brazil !! China !! India !! Nigeria !! Thailand |
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|Latin |
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|Tibetan བོད་ཡིག, Simplified chinese 简体字 |
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|Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Limbu, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Syloti Nagri, , Tamil, Telugu |
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|Pannigerian |
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|Thai |
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Revision as of 18:38, 1 June 2006
This is the area for dicsussions of the Font Common Room page.
General Note: Most (if not all) of the people involved in these pages they do so out of their free time and because they enjoy doing it. It's fun. These pages are being developed and are work in progress. If you have a comment, make it in a civilised and modern manner.
The following paragraph was moved here from the Font Common Room page. It referes to the section that talks about fontconfig (sans, serif, monospace), etc.
- This entire discussion seems to be ignorant of the development work that has been done, outside of the Linux community, in developping Unicode fonts. The prime example is Gentium which covers most of the scripts needed. Any work in improving coverage should add glyphs to existing Unicode fonts like Gentium. Also, please not that concepts such as sans, serif and monospace do not exist at all in many of the world's scripts. Most scripts also do not have upper/lower case distinctions.
Work in progress
Below are some fragments that may make it in the front page.
| Brazil | China | India | Nigeria | Thailand |
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| Latin | Tibetan བོད་ཡིག, Simplified chinese 简体字 | Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Limbu, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Syloti Nagri, , Tamil, Telugu | Pannigerian | Thai |