Roberto and all:
Roberto Rosselli Del Turco wrote:
- I casually noticed that a new version is out AND that there is an
announce mailing list: perhaps announcements of new releases could also be forwarded to dm-l? I subscribed to the announcement ml, but it could be useful for those on this list who haven't subscribed (yet).
If there is no objection from list members, I'll put dm-l on the Junicode list.
- Installation under Linux: the instructions are very clear, but I
noticed that there is a file (/etc/defoma/hints/ttf-junicode.hints) in my installation not included in the zip archive, is this file created using the "fc-cache junicode" command? Doesn't seem the case at first look.
This is a script for the DEbian FOnt MAnager (defoma) program. The Debian maintainer creates it, and I'm afraid I know nothing more about it, except that I suppose you don't need defoma if you've got FontConfig.
- I'm very glad to see that Junicode is slowly but surely becoming a
fully MUFI compliant font, but what about characters not yet in MUFI? what's the best way to ask for their inclusion? filing a feature request to MUFI first (and putting you in CC:)? or you'd be glad to consider it first?
It would be best to get requests into MUFI first. You can direct any requests for inclusion of characters to me, since I'm involved with MUFI; then as soon as MUFI assigns a code point I'll include it in Junicode.
- I really like the (oldish) Beowulf-1 font, any plans to revamp it or
include it inside Junicode's PUA (I would settle with that)? Hope this request doesn't sound too weird :)
I've thought about this. Since there's a large number of ligatures it would seem a good candidate for an OpenType font. But life's so short . . .
Again on Junicode under Linux: Debian offers excellent support, the latest version is already available as a standard DEB package (unstable branch); for RPM based distros I built an RPM package which has been accepted in the Mandriva contrib repository, but it needs to be updated to the latest version (hence question n. 2).
I really appreciate your packaging Junicode for Mandrake (and thence it is available to all who use RPM-based Linux distributions.
Peter