Re: A11y woes

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 21/02/2006, at 10:55 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> > > 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,
> >
> > Thanks, Simos, that is helpful. Do you think it's worth us trying  
> > to contact Bitstream? Or shall we go with dejavu (which is,  
> > confusingly, also the name of my backup program)?
> AFAIK, the person that worked with Bitstream (the company) to have  
> Bitstream Vera (the font) released for the GNOME foundation was Jim  
> Gettys. In this respect, it would be good to send him first an e- 
> mail describing how useful you find Titus Cyberbit Basic. You can  
> find his e-mail by way of Google.

Jim Gettys <jg freedesktop org> looks like the newest address... OK,  
I've emailed him and asked him about where we're up to with  
Bitstream, any advice and info. he can offer, and gave him feedback  
on TCB, which, however, is not as good for Vietnamese, but he may  
want to know that.
> However, the most important step you can do now is to contact the  
> author of Verajja, a font font derived from Bitstream Vera that  
> suppors (perhaps reimplements) Vietnamese. See at the end of the  
> page, http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ 
> Bitstream_Vera_derivatives
> The people from DejaVu, the main derivative of Bitstream Vera, are  
> trying to contact him so that the glyphs can enter back into DejaVu  
> and have a single font for all uses.

I've had a look at the author of Verajja's page:

http://www.aimwell.org/Fonts/fonts.html

he's just done some more work on Verajja. I've downloáded it (also  
Gentium Alt, which looks good for my language) to test it thoroughly.  
I've also just written to him (pesala ntlworld com) and asked him  
about releasing the glyph set to the Dejavu people. I'll pass on his  
response.

Yike! Time for sleep-cycles. Bye! :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN