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From: Jason Catena <jason.catena@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] nice appearance to Times font with accented characters (in acme)?
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:50:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d50d7d460909282150m46014480l56623cb96463930e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

My try (times/latin1.7a.font) could be improved.  It does actually
display accented characters (from pelm/latin1.8) interspersed with
unaccented letters in the Times font.  But it's a bit like a ransom
note, or the Cyrillic font I designed and poked into my C64 in middle
school: the baseline of the accented characters is a pixel or two
higher than the baseline of times letters.  Is this about as good as I
can expect, or could anyone suggest a better composition?

17	12
0x0000	0x0001	../lucsans/lsr.12
0x0001	0x009F 1	R.7.1
0x00A0	0x00FF 0xA0	../pelm/latin1.8
0x0100	0x017E	../pelm/latineur.8
0x0250	0x02E9	../misc/ipa.8
0x0370	0x03F5	../misc/greek.8
0x0400	0x0475	../misc/cyrillic.9
0x2000	0x2044	../misc/genpunc.8
0x2070	0x208E	../pelm/supsub.8
0x20A0	0x20AC	../pelm/currency.9
0x2190	0x21EA	../misc/arrows
0x2200	0x227F	../misc/math1
0x2280	0x22F1	../misc/math2
0x2300	0x232C	../misc/tech
0x2500	0x257F	../misc/chart
0x2600	0x266F	../misc/ding
0x2700	0x27BF	../misc/zapf
0xfee0	0xff5e	../pelm/latin1.8
0xFFFD 0xFFFD 0x80 ../pelm/latin1.8

I'd like to keep using Times since I think the letter-forms look
better than the default Lucida (there's no "bit" directory, so which
file actually defines the default euro.8.font plan9port-acme uses?),
but are not so small as palatino/latin1.6.font (7 & 8 get clipped).

Jason Catena



             reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29  4:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29  4:50 Jason Catena [this message]
2009-09-29 15:18 ` Russ Cox

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