Hi I should retract my statement about italics not working, as it sort of works (slanted type synthesized) and most people would say it works; though you would know that it does not really work if you know what "italics" really means in typography. On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:19:38PM +0900, mpsuzuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > Please let me know detail of "trademark problem". > Michael took it as legal issue, but I'm afraid you meant different. > I don't think it's less-problematic to distribute information > "about" commercial fonts, if they don't have non-public part of > the commercial fonts. I suppose what you meant was comprehensive > research for existing commercial font is difficult work. > If I'm misunderstanding, please correct. As I understood it it is indeed "legal", or rather possibility to being sued. (I would say abuse of the legal system by commercial companies.) The response I got was: >From fontconfig-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Mar 7 13:27:08 2005 > >Around 13 o'clock on Mar 7, Ambrose Li wrote: > >> I have been wondering whether someone has entertained the idea >> that fontconfig (or some other layer) can have a config file >> that specifies something like "the italic version of this >> font is that font" or "the bold version of this font is that >> font", or, "to get CJK/Cyrillic/Hebrew/Arabic characters from >> this font, use that font". > >You can do this when matching fonts, but you can't change what names are >returned for each font. I've avoided this strenuously because of >trademark issues; font vendors get very nervous when you talk about >representing their fonts with different names. > >-keith
