Re: Baltic Encodings

[PhilLong69 netscape net (Philip Long)]

<Jim Gettys hp com> wrote:

>It depends how motivated you are.
>
>The issue would be doing decent hinting of those overstrike characters, 
>I suspect; it sounds like hinting in general is where the significant 
>work is, rather than the outlines of the characters, though in this
>case it might be easier than general case.
>
>I don't know what the best tools on Linux for trying to do hinting might
>be: there are commercial tools on Windows and maybe Mac for doing font work.
>
Yes, please do. 

Maybe, we (Inga and I)could contact the Latvian Linux community and see if there's any interest+ability there. I'd immagine there would be wide-spread interest in getting the vera family fully internationalized for roman based alphabets, and not just for the Baltics.  Vera is really a nice font set IMHO.

Thanks

Phil Long

 

>I can ask Jim Lyles what's involved...
>                         - Jim
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>Jim Gettys
>Cambridge Research Laboratory
>HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
>Jim Gettys hp com
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