Un-series fonts (a new set of Korean fonts)

[Jungshik Shin <jshin mailaps org>]

Hi,

This is to inform the Linux community and the open source community
(and distribution builders) of new sets of Korean truetype fonts,
Un-series fonts (GPL'd) made available thanks to UN Koaunghi
(who painstakingly scanned, converted to outlines and hand-hinted
them all) and PARK Won-Kyu. They're originally made as PS fonts
to use with Korean TeX/LaTeX/OmegaLambda (HLaTeX [1]) by UN Koaunghi in
the late 1990's.  Recently, PARK Won-kyu converted them to truetype fonts
and added GSUB tables to one of them (UnBatang) for the full support of
Korean script with Korean letters (Hangul Jamos : U+1100).

They're available at the moment at (will be available as well later somewhere
at http://kldp.net/prjects/....)

http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/project/font/GSUB (UnBatang with GSUB)
http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/project/font/UnFonts (the rest of the series)

Advantages over Baekmuk fonts (included in most Linux distributions) are:

 - they come in 7 families        : UnBatang(serif), UnDotum(sans-serif),
                                    UnGungseo(cursive, brush-stroke),
                                    UnPilgi (script), UnShinmun,
                                    UnYetgul (a bit like 'Frankfurt' ? and
                                              old Korean printing style),
                                    UnBom, UnGraphic

 - wider character repertoire : covers the fullset of Latin-1 as well
                                as the full set of
                                precomposed Hangul syllables, and
                                Chinese characters in KS X 1001

 - three of them come in bold as well as in regular
   (no need to tinker with 'artificial bolding')

 - one of them (UnBatangOdal) has GSUB tables for pre-1933 orthography
   Korean text rendering with Korean letters (Hangul Jamos).


  Jungshik

[1]
http://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX and other CTAN archives)