[xwiki-devs] Unicode font problem

[Paul Libbrecht]

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.

paul


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.
>
> WDYT?
> -- 
> Sergiu Dumitriu
> http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
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