Hej
Apropos den lille snak, der var om unicode og unicode skrifter her først
på ugen, og om div. TB programmers evner / manglende evner, få fik jeg
her til morgen følgende fra en af vore Nisus Writer Express brugere. Jeg
synes, det er så værdifuldt - også for en del af d.e.m.'s brugere, at
jeg vil poste hendes indlæg her.
Skrifttypen 'Gentium' er en utrolig smuk og særdeles veldesignet serif
skrift. Den vil automatisk blive remplaceret med Times / Times New
Roman, GRTimes, CYTimes, osv. på Windows, hvis ikke Windows versionen af
Gentime stalleret påen maskneet dokument fx. sendes til. Udover til Mac
og Win, findes den også i en Linux ver., der kan bruges på de fleste
Linux systemer. Men klik selv på linket nederst, - dér kan I selv læse
mere og downloade skrifttypen - GRATIS!
mvh. Erik Richard
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For those interested, there is an interview with Victor Gaultney, the
maker of the Gentium unicode fonts, at
<
http://www.lisa.org/archive_domain/newsletters/2003/4.3/gaultney.html>
He says at one point:
"OpenType has been the most successful rendering system, and smart font
format, to date, but even it is at an early stage of development. Of the
major software vendors, only Microsoft and Adobe have embraced it in
their apps (and not even in all of them), and even they differ in some
parts of their implementation. This is somewhat due to the OpenType
requirement that the applications have some understanding of the writing
system. Applications can easily differ in support for particular
behaviors, depending on what they think is necessary. It’s a bit of a
mess. Only big companies like Microsoft have the resources to do the
research needed to support a myriad of languages.
"There are other systems, but few applications use them. Apple’s AAT and
ATSUI are in many ways superior to OpenType, and provide flexible
services to all apps that use it - without requiring any understanding
of the writing system. It works great, but developers are not using it,
and font manufacturers have ignored it. SIL’s open source rendering
system (for Windows and soon for Linux) - Graphite - is more powerful
than either of these, but is also not widely supported.
"Unicode has given us a single standard for encoding character data -
and that is great. We now need an easier way for application developers
and font designers to consistently render Unicode text - outside
Microsoft Office."
Gentium is available for free at <
http://scripts.sil.org/gentium>
Beatrice Reusch
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*Music Recording, Editing & Publishing - Also Smaller Quantities
*Software - For Theological Education - And For Physically Impaired
*Nisus - The Future In Text & Mail Processing <
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