Hi all, [please CC me on any replies] MPH 2B Damase is a public domain font implementing some of the newer parts of Unicode 4.1. A short description of it is here: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/ttf-mph-2b-damase The author hasn't had time to work on it for a long time, so I suggested that a maintenance team could be formed in order to keep it up to date, add more glyphs and so on. Is anyone interested in helping form such a team and working on MPH 2B Damase? PS: If anyone is a regular on typophile.com and would like to post this message there, please do. For those who might be interested, here is my email exchange with the author: > On 06/02/07, Paul Wise <pabs debian org> wrote: > > > I note that fixedsys.org is still not back up. Have you updated MPH > > 2B Damase at all and placed it on a new website? If not, do you > > think it would be a good idea to convert it to a fontforge .sfd file > > or two, create a sourceforge or savannah project to maintain it on > > and solicit for maintainers amongst the free fonts community? I'm > > sure some of the people who commented on the debian package > > inclusion would help out. Do you know if it uses any features > > fontforge does not support? > > No, I haven't updated the font (although I did intend to at one point, > I'm pretty sure now it's not going to happen, at least not for a few > years) nor have I placed it on a new website. I don't know if it uses > any features fontforge doesn't support -- the main issues that I would > anticipate are how diacritics are done (I don't remember the technical > terms, but the way I did it, iirc, is "illegal", where each > precomposed character actually calls upon the diacritic and the base > character and combines them on the spot), and the use of characters > beyond the BMP (although by now, any font editor that can't handle > that is essentially worthless, so I'm assuming that is not an issue > with fontforge). > > You and others are welcome to do any or all of the things you > suggested, I unfortunately do not have time right now. If nobody were > to end up doing it, I suppose I might eventually, but unfortunately I > am very much occupied in real life at the moment and don't anticipate > having much, if any, time to continue my amateur font foundring for > the next couple of years, although I would be happy to answer any > questions at all anyone might have about fonts or writing systems. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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