Re: Amateurish cyrillic glyphs: "Bepa" font

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Danilo Segan wrote:
> Hi everyone,

[snip]

> I'm already using them for my desktop (the main reason I worked on
> them is my wish to use completely free [as in freedom] and good
> looking font for my desktop; Nimbus Sans from urw-cyr doesn't look
> very nice, even though I did extend it with missing Serbian glyphs),
> and there are no any obvious problems at low resolutions.
>
> [I am willing to use Gnome CVS for these if that is allowed, and
> would not be considered "conflict of interest"]

I think using gnome cvs would be an exteremely good idea, esp if its a 
common module where all Vera related experiments and derivatives can 
reside - there should be oppourturnities for cross-pollination.

> Of course, the hinting is that provided by Pfaedit, I may have messed
> up even the Latin part of the font (like metrics, etc.), and I have
> copied ETH to Dstroke (Đ), to be able to use Latin transcription of
> Serbian with these fonts (this one is required for Croatian and
> Bosnian too).

Yes, the hinting/instructing in Latin should preferably remain the same 
as original, I guess - but even if you did mess it up it is not hard to 
restore it.

> Any comments are welcome, though I don't promise to be able to work
> on it substantially as long as fonts work fine for me.  Contributions
> of whatever form are indeed welcome.
>
> As for my configuration, I just drop the four TTFs into my ~/.fonts/
> folder, and they automagically appear.  I use FreeType2 without
> bytecode interpreter (so it makes use of autohinting), and they're
> looking quite fine for me.
>
> Hope at least someone finds this useful.
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo