Re: [9fans] Fonts

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, J. R. Mauro<jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood <josh@utopian.net> wrote:
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>> On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
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>>> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info
>>> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting).
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>> Fontforge is the way I know about, also, and will give you a process
>> something like drawing your font, or even modifying one of the handful
>> of 'open-source' fonts, like Inconsolata.  There is a ttf2subf program
>> (http://mirtchovski.com/p9/freetype/) that will, I think, convert the
>> Fontforge product for Plan 9.  Erik has used that program or similar
>> to convert Inconsolata, for example, and some other font-related work
>> may be in his contrib directory.
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>> -Josh
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> Speaking of that, is there a way to do the reverse, to get plan 9 Bigelow
> fonts that Linux can use? I'm sick of my browser not knowing that the
> character left of the 1 on my keyboard is an open-quote.
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Remember, only heathens use ` to begin a quote.

The enlightened use ' and " for all kinds of single and double quotes,
because you can copy/paste them anywhere and everybody sees them
properly. Also, few things in the world look worse than seeing a quote
done ``like this'' in a monospace font.

John
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