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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KWord and bitmap fonts
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-07-24 21:00:39
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On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:06, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 24. Juli 2002 13:08, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:

>
> > > Why? Because the type 1 font is typically ISO-8859-1. (Well at least
> > > the ones that I am using.) So the range outside ISO-8859-1 is composed
> > > by QT with the help of other fonts. However on a typical
> > > (old/default/non-TrueType) XFree system, the only Unicode font is
> > > Clearlyu, which is a bitmap font!
> >
> > No, at least ISO-8859-2 is fully covered by the same Type1 fonts.
>
> When I look at my file /usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/fonts.dir, I see that some
> fonts are only declared as ISO-8859-1, while some others are also declared
> as ISO-8859-2, -3 or -9. Still some others have additionally -4 and -15.
>
> So some Type 1 fonts contain also the ISO-8859-2 characters, however some
> (like Utopia) do not.
>
> In any case, no one of the fonts have non-latin characters, which is what I
> meant. However, I should have written outside ISO-8859, which would have
> been more precise.

I repeat; there are Type1 fonts that really do have those characters. I have 
several on my system.
Shalomscript is one.
A google search on "shaloscr.pfb" will give you a download position.

- -- 
Thomas Zander                                           zander@planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be
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