Re: A11y woes

[Simos Xenitellis <simos74 gmx net>]

O/H Clytie Siddall έγραψε:
> On 19/02/2006, at 11:36 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
>
> > > [Me] True Unicode variable width fonts include: Lucida Grande, 
> > > Arial, Gentium, Junicode, Titus Cyberbit Basic, and fonts created by 
> > > language groups for Unicode (I have some beautiful fonts created for 
> > > Vietnamese, but they cover the whole Unicode set.)
> > Gentium is distributed under the Open Font License 
> > (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL), meaning that it is free and can be 
> > included in Linux distrubutions. <snip>
>
> Sorry, I should have thought of distro. licensing. Lucida Grande comes 
> with Mac OSX, I don't know what its general licence is. Arial comes 
> with the M$ Office trial binary ;), and the rest are at least freely 
> available for personal use.
>
> It's a pity about Bitstream (Titus Cyberbit Basic): they must have 
> changed their licence. I read their licence attached to another font 
> only this week, but it must have been out of date, because it said we 
> were free to redistribute their fonts as long as we didn't do so in a 
> font package and charge for that package. Re-engineering was fine as 
> long as the name of the font was changed.
Hi Clytie,
There are different licenses per font;
1. Bitstream Vera (http://www.gnome.org/fonts/) is an open-source font 
and thanks to that we have DejaVu which I believe has proper coverage 
for Vietnamese as well. You may try the latest version, published 
yesterday, from *dejavu*.sourceforge.net/
2. Titus Cyberbit Basic has a "for-personal-use-only" license, which I 
believe it comes from long time ago when the german institute arranged 
with Bitstream to work on the font and the greater coverage of glyphs. I 
believe that if someone contacted Bitstream, they would not mind to 
change the license to that of Bitstream Vera. I believe it's an issue of 
contacting the right people.
3. Other fonts from Bitstream are proprietary.

Hope this helps,
Simos
> I use Lucida Grande for practically everything: it's a very good 
> Unicode font. I only use others for fixed-width, or display 
> (print/pics/pdf).
>
> from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm 
> Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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>
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