Rich Felker
2006-12-15 04:49:50 UTC
Is anyone maintaining the GNU unifont? I just completed a set of
8x16 Tibetan glyphs which, via what could be called either clever
pixel-painting or a horrible hack, allow the display of legible
Tibetan text with pure-overstrike combining marks (no contextual
substitutions or positioning required). Needless to say Sanskrit
transliteraion stacks don't come out very nice, but all "standard"
Tibetan stacks work, meaning one can read and write Tibetan or
Dzongkha language text.
I'd like to see these added to GNU unifont if possible. The existing
glyphs there, last I checked, weren't at all appropriate for actual
overstrike rendering, only for use as nominal Unicode glyphs and not
even very good in that regard.
Rich
8x16 Tibetan glyphs which, via what could be called either clever
pixel-painting or a horrible hack, allow the display of legible
Tibetan text with pure-overstrike combining marks (no contextual
substitutions or positioning required). Needless to say Sanskrit
transliteraion stacks don't come out very nice, but all "standard"
Tibetan stacks work, meaning one can read and write Tibetan or
Dzongkha language text.
I'd like to see these added to GNU unifont if possible. The existing
glyphs there, last I checked, weren't at all appropriate for actual
overstrike rendering, only for use as nominal Unicode glyphs and not
even very good in that regard.
Rich