Michail Vidiassov wrote: > given the Unicode capabilities of the upcoming 1.19.3 it would be nice to > create a set of fonts descriptions for some family of "unicode" fonts > (with most of the glyphs groff can typeset - extended latin and cyrillic) > and, may be, > include it as an optional or contributed part of the groff distribution. > > What are the options for such a family? > AFAIK the best URW derivatives now are Gyre fonts - they are PostScript, > GPL, have lots of glyphs and are developed/mainatined. > > MS Core fonts look like an alternative - they are less free, TrueType - > but they are MS! > > Please, post your opinion on the desirability of such font description > package, choice of fonts etc.
DejaVu (forked version of Bitstream Vera family, includes support for Greek & Cyrillic), would be nice to have supported by default. http://dejavu.sf.net/ -- Larry
