Re: semicondensed fork

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Rob wrote:
> I spent a little time with Vera Sans in pfaedit, and came up with 
> a surprisingly nice semicondensed version that sorta looks like 
> Tahoma and makes an awesome body/screen font.  Per the license, 
> I changed the name (to Toga Sans).  I also didn't mention 
> Bitstream or GNOME when submitting to Freshmeat, but I didn't 
> see how to explain what I did on my actual site without 
> mentioning Bitstream Vera Sans.  If anyone thinks I'm screwing 
> Bitstream and/or GNOME by what I've done, please let me know 
> what I can do to fix it.

My Bitstream Vera offshoot is called Nonesuch Arev ... I didn't change 
the base, it is a derivatrive that has quite some additional characters, 
mostly compositions for latin extended a, b, additional and ipa 
extensions plus a small amount of kerning. And some very light drawing 
of new shapes. Coverage is not equal between all the different variants. 
 I am more than happy tohand my chnages over to somebody if they find a 
good home - my ability to spend time on this is at best exteremely erratic.

> http://freshmeat.net/projects/togasans/
> http://www.binara.com/toga/

A couple of things you might want to check -
	* making sure all the myriad of places bitstream and vera are
	  mentioned inside the font were changed
	* that pfaedit didn't truncate the licence thats embedded in one
	  of the fields inside the font- it did for me 8-(

> Thanks.
> Rob Kudla