Re: symbols in luatex?

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Jan 8, 2008 9:21 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> > On Jan 7, 2008 5:18 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> >> On Jan 6, 2008 9:26 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> >>
> >>> maybe a big fallback virtual font covering all of unicode ...
> >> With Arial Unicode as fallback ;-)
> >
> > I can try to get some Microsofties* to the meeting. Perhaps they'll agree :-) :p
>
> actually the typography part of ms is not that bad -) also, if i'm right
> all linux distributions permit you to download/install fonts from ms
> (someow these fonts are free); not sure about osx

Only the normal Arial font, Arial Unicode is only AFAIK available
with MS Ofiice.

> > After all, if I forget about all the advantages of it (covering
> > unicode symbols where typeface doesn't matter so much etc.), the
> > approach would be fully compatible with Word in that respect,
> > replacing all accented letters with the ones from the fallback font
> > :-)
>
> well, you may as well expect worse in the tex community ... font feature
> abuse and such
>
> > But after all: there's LinLibertine or the (symbol) Unicode font that
> > one of you has mantioned a few days ago.
>
> yes, those fonts are very complete; i wonder if they may be distributed
> with tex ...

The unicode symbol font should be no problem. You find the following text
on the page.

"Fonts in this site are offered free for any use; they may be opened,
edited, modified, regenerated, packaged and redistributed."

It's worth to write a mail to the designer.

http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/index.html

Wolfgang
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