Martin Norb$BgD(Bk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Great! What I really need is a TrueType (or similar) font with all the
> math and symbols from unicode. All I have now is the Gnu Unifont
> (http://czyborra.com/unifont/), but it's only 8x16 pixels. =20
Great! Try and halt X (font) server for a few seconds with
xfd -fn -*-25-*-*-*-*-*-ISO10646-1
Notice LyX requests math fonts with quite a few different kinds
of sizes.
> The TrueType font should be legible on screen though, most typesetting
> fonts aren't.
It seems BitStream corporation is no longer distributing the CyberBit
font. It is a complete Unicode 2.0 TrueType font except for 12,000
Hangul Syllables and contains 26217 glyphs:
ls -l CYBERBIT.TTF
-rw-a-- 13335516 Feb 18 1997 CYBERBIT.TTF
ftdump CYBERBIT.TTF
font name table entries
-----------------------------------------------
Bitstream Cyberbit - Version 1.1
Copyright 1990-1997 Bitstream Inc. All rights reserved.
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character map encodings
-----------------------------------------------
There are 2 encodings:
encoding 0: Apple Roman
encoding 1: Windows Unicode
-----------------------------------------------
Memory footprint statistics:
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431376 bytes ( 422kByte): face object
6506 bytes ( 7kByte): glyph_object
3696 bytes ( 4kByte): instance object
38779 bytes ( 38kByte): exec. context object
-----------------------------------------------
480357 bytes ( 470kByte): total memory usage
It is licenced free for non-commercial use and should be still
available from several mirrors such as
ftp://ftp.ifcss.org//pub/software/fonts/unicode/ms-win/
The extension of the archives are .exe but it is a PKzip format and
you can extract necessary files with Info-unzip utility.
In case you have a licence for OS/2 operating system, you can
download Java for OS/2 for free from
http://www.ibm.com/java/jdk/download
which contains the Times New Roman Unicode 2.0 font with 35833 glyphs:
ls -l tnrmt30.ttf
-rw-a-- 12892504 Nov 21 1997 tnrmt30.ttf
ftdump tnrmt30.ttf
font name table entries
-----------------------------------------------
Times New Roman MT 30 - v1.51 - 6 Oct 1997
Typeface (I)(B The Monotype Corporation plc. Data (I)(B The Monotype Corporation
plc/Ty
pe Solutions Inc. 1990-1997. All Rights Reserved
Times New Roman(I.(B Trademark of The Monotype Corporation plc registered in the US
Pat & TM Off. and elsewhere. WorldType is a trademark of Monotype Typography In
c.
-----------------------------------------------
character map encodings
-----------------------------------------------
There are 2 encodings:
encoding 0: Apple Roman
encoding 1: Windows Unicode
-----------------------------------------------
Memory footprint statistics:
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583337 bytes ( 570kByte): face object
4694 bytes ( 5kByte): glyph_object
5908 bytes ( 6kByte): instance object
17849 bytes ( 18kByte): exec. context object
-----------------------------------------------
611788 bytes ( 598kByte): total memory usage
If you are not a licencee of OS/2, ask IBM if it is OK to download
the package.
BTW be careful if you are to use fonts distributed by Microsoft.
I'm not sure about the legal position of Microsoft US. However,
Microsoft Japan quite blatantly states in a magazine interview
that all the fonts shipped with Windows operating system, Microsoft
applications for the said system, and those on the Web sites are
licenced to be used only on Windows operating system. And that
it is a serious offence to the copyright law to use the fonts on
other operating systems even if they are installed on the same
hardware.
Regards,
SMiyata
