Ar 29/01/2005 am 13:49, ysgrifennodd Danilo Åegan: > Heya Daf, > > Nice to see a known name working on thisâit gives me a warm and fuzzy > feeling :)
Well, I got a nice feeling when I saw that you've been working on this stuff before. :) > Today at 9:14, Dafydd Harries wrote: > > > I've been working on a font bug that's popped up in Debian. It's about > > Cyrillic glyphs in the Ghostscript fonts, and I noticed when reading old > > reports that you've worked on similar bugs before. I think I've made > > some progress tonight on fixing it. Your input would be appreciated. > > Sure, here you go. Feel free to repost any or all of this to the > bug-alias. Great, CCing the bug. > > Here's the bug: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271427 > > Strictly Serbian glyphs (used in none of the other Cyrillic languages, > except maybe some of them in Macedonian, but the same explanation > holds for them as well) are the following: > > â U+402 and U+452 (Ð, Ñ, DJE), which you mention to have fixed already > â U+408 and U+458 (Ð, Ñ, JE), which are exactly the same as Latin J, so > there should be no problems with these > â U+409 and U+459 (Ð, Ñ, LJE) > â U+40a and U+45a (Ð, Ñ, NJE) > â U+40b and U+45b (Ð, Ñ, TSHE) > â U+40f and U+45f (Ð, Ñ, DZHE) > > In addition to these, there're some variants in Adobe PUA (Private Use > Area), where same characters have slightly different appearance in > Serbian and Russian: > â U+f6c4: small cyrillic "Ð" (U+433), different only in italic variants > â U+f6c5: small cyrillic "Ð" (U+431), which differs even in regular faces > â U+f6c6: small cyrillic "Ð" (U+434), different only in italic variants > â U+f6c7: small cyrillic "Ð" (U+43f), different only in italic variants > â U+f6c8: small cyrillic "Ñ" (U+442), different only in italic variants > > (These also have AFII glyph names [eg. U+f6c5 is afii10063], but they > seem to go only by generic Unicode-based names of uniF6C5 and similar > in generated PFB files from Valek.) Ah, this list is just what I need. However, there are some glyphs which are not in your list (see my previous mail to the bug report for details), but which also seem to be broken. Perhaps some non-Serbian Cyrillic glyphs are also broken. > All of these are correct in latest Valek's fonts, so you want to merge > them. Also, in your copy-glyphs.sh script, you seem not to be fixing > URW Chancery font (z003034l.*), which also needs correction on all of > these (including above cursive variants). The reason for this is that the Chancery font in the version of Valek's fonts which I grabbed doesn't seem to contain any of the Serbian glyphs. Also, the Nimbus Sans Condensed has a few broken/missing glyphs. > Also note that there're two modes of copying in FontForge: with > metrics, or just glyph outlines (without metrics). For all of these > glyphs, you want to copy metrics over as well. I don't know how this > is exactly done from scripts, but there's a "Copy metadata" in the > Edit menu somewhere, which modifies the basic copying behaviour in UI. > Perhaps Copy() works this way from scripts by default. Fontforge seems to be modifying the font metrics when I copy the glyphs, so I suspect it's happening automatically. I looked in the Fontforge scripting reference (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting.html) and couldn't find much information either way, though there's a CopyGlyphFeatures function which looks like it may be used to copy some metadata. > I have not yet learned how to "watch" a certain Debian bug, so please > keep me in CC, if you expect further responses from me :) Unfortunately, the Debin bug tracking system doesn't have this feature yet. I'll keep you informed on developments. :) -- Dafydd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
