8 Jul
2008
8 Jul
'08
4:21 p.m.
Paul Libbrecht wrote:
are the beta stix fonts acceptable and solving these
issues?
They are available from the Mozilla MathML web-page.
Their design goal is in principle the best for it I feel.
Yes, but I'd rather wait for the final version to include it in XWiki. I also have the
beta fonts
locally, but I don't think they were supposed to be used in stable applications.
Update: I asked the FreeFont guys if there are any problems with the GPL/LGPL licenses,
and they
said it is OK to include their font in our product. For the moment, having at least
support for some
non-latin1 languages is better than nothing. I'll add some documentation about how to
change the
default font, in case someone needs to export chinese documents to PDF.
Le 04-juil.-08 à 06:38, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :
> Hi devs,
>
> I almost finished implementing
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1609
> What remains to be done, is to find a good font to embed in XWiki.
>
> The best candidate would be the one from the StixFonts project, but
> that one is not yet released
> (delayed several years, now apparently is in the packaging stage; the
> expected date is August, but
> given the history of their release dates, it's more likely sometime in
> the winter or even next year).
>
> The next best candidate is FreeFont
> (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/), but that one is
> GPL, and doesn't have complete support for asian characters.
>
> The third best candidate is an extended version of Computer Modern
> (http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/), which is distributed
> under the X11 license, but it
> is less complete than FreeFont.
>
> For the moment, I'd be in favor of including the FreeFont, but we need
> to see if a GPL font can be
> redistributed or not, and maybe ask for permission to include it.
>
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Sergiu Dumitriu
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