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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts
Date: Wed,  8 Jul 2009 12:49:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090708194933.67AC85B37@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:00:04 EDT." <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com>

> But how do you make them? I played with some TTF font generators about
> 10 years ago that I'm sure I illegally obtained somehow, but I realize
> that I have zero idea of how fonts are designed and packaged. Does
> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info
> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting).

Start with fontforge & its wikipedia page.  What exactly are
you trying to do?  Tengwar has already been done :-)



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-08 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-08 19:00 Devon H. O'Dell
2009-07-08 19:11 ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:11   ` Joseph Stewart
2009-07-08 19:49 ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 19:49 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2009-07-08 20:05 ` Josh Wood
2009-07-08 20:14   ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 20:15   ` J. R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:44     ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:44       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:51         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 22:21           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-09  2:21           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-09  3:17             ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-09  5:25               ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:10                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-15 21:01                 ` David Leimbach
2009-07-15 21:34                   ` Russ Cox
2009-07-09 10:02               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2009-07-08 20:50     ` John Floren
2009-07-08 21:42       ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 21:47         ` erik quanstrom
2009-07-08 21:49           ` J.R. Mauro
2009-07-08 20:23 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-09 15:43 Chad Brown
2009-07-09 15:55 ` Federico G. Benavento
2002-01-07 19:04 forsyth
2002-01-07 18:41 Russ Cox
2002-01-07 20:16 ` Fariborz Tavakkolian
2002-01-07  9:38 skipt

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