I keep seeing references to fonts provided by our very own node_ue, and they seem to have been well received all over the place. However the site provided seems to be down: http://fixedsys.org/~node_ue/fonts/
I'm asking here because it seems to be a fairly easy place to get hold of Mark, and I thought it would be of general interest.
Is there any other place to get these fonts? I would like to see if they would be useful for further special font designations like {{polytonic}} and {{IPA}}: {{gothic}} maybe?
Unfortunately, my host is down for unknown reasons.
Seeing as I don't pay for my webspace, I can't well demand an explanation, so the best I can do is hope that the issue will be resolved sooner rather than later. If it goes on for long enough, I may inquire for a second time as to the nature of the problem.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-mph-2b-damase Please note, however, that this is not of the most recent version of the font, which fixes an issue with the coptic ranges.
I also hope that at some point in the distant future, I may be able to finish the Linear B Ideograms, and add more scripts as well.
Another outstanding issue is the majescule q. I modified it to be an "open" Q (rather than an "O-with-a-strike") as this is what I prefer in my handwriting, however I didn't do a very clean job and at some point I would like to fix that. The Latin characters are also a little bit misaligned, so it gives texts in the Roman alphabet a sort of badly typewritten feel.
DaMaSe is certainly usable for Gothic, Tifinagh, hPhags-pa, Linear B (syllabary 100% supported, ideograms only partially supported), Cypriot, Glagolitic... It is perhaps a superior font for Glagolitic because it attempts to blend the quite distinct traditions of Glagolitic writing (Triangular, Square, and Round). It also works for Persian and Ugaritic cuneiform, and many many many other scripts.
Mark
On 21/10/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
I keep seeing references to fonts provided by our very own node_ue, and they seem to have been well received all over the place. However the site provided seems to be down: http://fixedsys.org/~node_ue/fonts/
I'm asking here because it seems to be a fairly easy place to get hold of Mark, and I thought it would be of general interest.
Is there any other place to get these fonts? I would like to see if they would be useful for further special font designations like {{polytonic}} and {{IPA}}: {{gothic}} maybe? -- Phil [[en:User:Phil Boswell]]
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"Mark Williamson" node.ue@gmail.com wrote in message news:849f98ed0510210224m5f93cc14q@mail.gmail.com...
Unfortunately, my host is down for unknown reasons. Seeing as I don't pay for my webspace, I can't well demand an explanation, so the best I can do is hope that the issue will be resolved sooner rather than later. If it goes on for long enough, I may inquire for a second time as to the nature of the problem. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-mph-2b-damase Please note, however, that this is not of the most recent version of the font, which fixes an issue with the coptic ranges.
Do you happen to have that ZIPped? I'm working on Windows here, and I wouldn't have a clue how to get into a Debian package even if it weren't likely to get me ejected from here with maximal force :-)
DaMaSe is certainly usable for Gothic, Tifinagh, hPhags-pa, Linear B (syllabary 100% supported, ideograms only partially supported), Cypriot, Glagolitic... It is perhaps a superior font for Glagolitic because it attempts to blend the quite distinct traditions of Glagolitic writing (Triangular, Square, and Round). It also works for Persian and Ugaritic cuneiform, and many many many other scripts.
It would be good to have this information somewhere on Wikipedia, to enable cross-referencing to determine appropriate fonts to display various langauges.
I envisage creating various templates, along the lines of {{unicode}} and {{IPA}}, to display those languages which require particular fonts. Code2001 seems to do a good job, according to the various test pages I have found. However I haven't been able to figure out a way to finesse [[en:Gothic alphabet]] or [[en:Ugaritic alphabet]] into accepting the idea that I have Code2001 installed; maybe it's a preview thing.
Phil Boswell wrote:
"Mark Williamson" node.ue@gmail.com wrote in message news:849f98ed0510210224m5f93cc14q@mail.gmail.com...
Unfortunately, my host is down for unknown reasons. Seeing as I don't pay for my webspace, I can't well demand an explanation, so the best I can do is hope that the issue will be resolved sooner rather than later. If it goes on for long enough, I may inquire for a second time as to the nature of the problem. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-mph-2b-damase Please note, however, that this is not of the most recent version of the font, which fixes an issue with the coptic ranges.
Do you happen to have that ZIPped? I'm working on Windows here, and I wouldn't have a clue how to get into a Debian package even if it weren't likely to get me ejected from here with maximal force :-)
Have a look on the page for a filename ending with "orig.tar.gz". You can open that with winzip/most Windows archive programs.
You could also use 7zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) to open the .deb, but you're better off with the tarball.
On 10/21/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
Do you happen to have that ZIPped? I'm working on Windows here, and I wouldn't have a clue how to get into a Debian package even if it weren't likely to get me ejected from here with maximal force :-)
Having grown up with Red Hat I've always extracted deb packages with ar
then untarred them (tar -xvzf). Even in Windows I tend to use the djgpp packages, though Cigwyn probably has ar and tar. In fact, I caught myself doing that with Knoppix the other day and of course Knoppix does have the apt package to install software.
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John Platt wrote:
On 10/21/05, Phil Boswell phil.boswell@gmail.com wrote:
Do you happen to have that ZIPped? I'm working on Windows here, and I wouldn't have a clue how to get into a Debian package even if it weren't likely to get me ejected from here with maximal force :-)
Having grown up with Red Hat I've always extracted deb packages with ar then untarred them (tar -xvzf). Even in Windows I tend to use the djgpp packages, though Cigwyn probably has ar and tar. In fact, I caught myself doing that with Knoppix the other day and of course Knoppix does have the apt package to install software.
MSYS has tar w/ gzip and bzip2, so I'm certain that Cygwin would. 7-zip/WinRar/some new versions of WinZip can handle these as well.
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I think that we're quite off-topic... especially given that the original topic was a bit off-topic as well ;p
Mark
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