Re: palatino fonts

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2006-01-20 um 10:23 schrieb Hans Hagen:

> Technically you can configure the context unicode handler to take  
> chars from multiple fonts, so my advise is to use another font or a  
> combination of fonts. Maybe it's worth investigating which free  
> fonts contain the glyphs you need.

Of course this one is illegal, but I can understand their intention  
to collect all the glyphs in one font (they don't normally use TeX, I  
guess).

I know no font that contains every kind of Latin/Greek based glyph  
(as this does); Gentium is aiming that target, but it lacks cyrillic  
at the moment (and it doesn't look like it would be further  
developed, even if they released the sources some months ago). And  
there isn't a bold variant either.
http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium
Other projects:
- Linux Libertine is just ugly (0 is only a circle!?)
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
- Junicode is interesting, but also lacks Cyrillic
http://www.engl.virginia.edu/OE/junicode/junicode.html
- more?

And as far as I can see, the Babel folks even had to make up some  
glyphs for their project.
Sure, it would be far better if they had contributed to one of the  
above projects (or perhaps one of the GUST projects or just use TeX)  
instead stealing a commercial font.

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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