From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <38F4EB36-8A8E-4E31-87A7-188548629C4B@gmail.com> References: <9ab217670907081200s5ae2ef2ape0241a49d71e9fa3@mail.gmail.com> <38F4EB36-8A8E-4E31-87A7-188548629C4B@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:50:25 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220907081350l7f9c5ac2w4f5c89e39fed8729@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Fonts Topicbox-Message-UUID: 17b10914-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:15 PM, J. R. Mauro wrote: > > > > > On Jul 8, 2009, at 16:05, Josh Wood wrote: > >> >> On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: >>> >>> Does >>> anybody know anything about how fonts are created and packaged (info >>> on subfonts would be great, info on TTF would be interesting). >> >> 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. =C2=A0There is a ttf2subf prog= ram >> (http://mirtchovski.com/p9/freetype/) that will, I think, convert the >> Fontforge product for Plan 9. =C2=A0Erik has used that program or simila= r >> to convert Inconsolata, for example, and some other font-related work >> may be in his contrib directory. >> >> -Josh >> > > 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. > > 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 --=20 "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba