Hi Danilo, On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:55:48AM +0200, Danilo Segan wrote: > Hi Edward, [...] > There're many excellent free fonts. You can start with > URW-CYR (35 faces), Computer Modern Unicode (CM Unicode, > another couple of dozen faces, all based on Knuth's > magnificient Computer Modern family of typefaces ;), Bitstream > Vera, ... There're other free fonts for non-Latin/Cyrillic > based scripts, but I don't know much about them (except that > they exist :). Edward was certainly referring to free CJK fonts. Free CJK fonts are indeed still relatively rare. It is still impossible to find a complete set of roman (Ming/Mingcho/Sung), italic (Kai), and sans-serif (Gothic/Hei) fonts with regular and bold weights (and also oblique/"italic" in the case of sans-serif), for example. Decorative and script faces are also difficult to find in general, though Dr Wang's fonts have improved the situation for Chinese a lot. Fonts are somewhat easier to find in Japanese, but a lot are non-free (in the free software sense of free). With the lack of bold fonts in general, it would be good to revive the tradition of using sans-serif fonts as bold, but it is almost impossible to configure fontconfig or modern word processors etc. to substitute sans-serif for bold :-( Best regards, -- ¾¤Àïºa <a.c.li@xxxxxxxx> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/
