From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <6fad46f91acd9696f820fc1c9efcab85@plan9.ucalgary.ca> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thai Chicken From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: <20040225112245.0739a51b.martin@parvat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:13:40 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f49b0a5e-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > I'm just asking why there isn't a simpler way of managing the font (mapping) > files, than all the effort that Geoff went to... That one's very easy -- just buy the fonts you want.. Bitstream.com has a whole bunch of complete Unicode TTF's which you can easily convert to Plan 9. You can even get a support package where any new unicode glyphs will be sent to you immediately... Getting complete unicode fonts for free is going to be, I believe, significantly harder for some time still. As Markus Kuhn puts it: "this would be a very substantial project that I can't affort as a hobby". Same with .font files -- somebody needs to have the time and desire to do it... andrey