Thanks for doing this. I checked it out and found one major problem: Cyrillic "a" (а) has very little whitespace on left and right - much less than the original Latin "a" (I am probably not using the correct terminology, but you understand what I mean...), so in text, it is shown too close to the letters before and after it. To a lesser degree, I find spacing of Cyrillic "ya" (я), "l" (л) and "T" (Т) also too small. See attached scrrenshot. I could try fixing it (shouldn't bee to hard with pfaedit) - but I know almost nothing about fonts. Valek Filippov would do it much better than me. Best, Шурик On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 09:25, Danilo Segan wrote: > Hi all, > I've crafted preliminary, draft, not-yet-done, dirty, unfinished, > alpha version of only one style of Bitstream Vera with all the > cyrillic glyphs (well, I think those are all). > > Because of the license issues, I had to rename it, and due to my > (lack of) creativity, I've chosen name "Bepa" for this new font (this > is in Latin alphabet, in cyrillic it would be "Бепа", though you may > write it in cyrillic as Вера, as long as you don't claim it is read > as "Vera" ;). > > Get TTF from http://kvota.net/fonts/Bepa-Roman.ttf > No documentation or license attached, because this is not really > going public at this time, and everyone at gnome-cyr should be aware > of the licensing conditions for Vera fonts. > > I'm already using it for my desktop, and there are no major problems, > though there *are* a lot of problems (I don't like the looks of some > glyphs, which means that even metrics will change in the future, so > don't count on it being stable). > > This is more of a plea for help and review, rather than announcement, > so don't make it such (I don't want angry folks screaming about bad > quality without offering any help or advices). > > If you want to help, I suggest you take a look at Pfaedit[1], and > download Pfaedit SFD (Spline Font Database, me thinks ;) of the font > using CVS: > $ export CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous cvs kvota net:/cvs/i18n > $ cvs login > $ cvs -z4 co fonts/bepa > > I'm not going to work on this very extensively, and the plan is to > create other styles too (first, slanted version of the font, then > boldface). > > Hope someone likes it, because I'm total amateur with this ;) > > All criticism welcome, but will probably be put on hold until I get > time to really work on fixing stuff (patches against CVS are welcome, > of course -- after a couple, you might even get CVS write access ;). > > Cheers, > Danilo
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