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Article: 14099 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: RedHat 8.0 Linux and K-95 Character Set
Date: 13 Feb 2003 17:26:26 -0500
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <6d5o4vgob49hjtibic9oj7rplgf0rp03qd@4ax.com>,
Ron Heiby <heiby_u@falkor.chi.il.us> wrote:
: fdc@columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) wrote:
: >Andale Mono WT J is an excellent Unicode fixed-pitch font, so naturally it
: >does not come free with Windows; you have to buy it from Agfa Monotype.
:
: I went to the Agfa Monotype web site to find out pricing for this font. I
: found "Andale Mono", but not "Andale Mono WT J". Any difference?
:
A world of difference, quite literally :-)
: Also, does K-95 care whether I have it in TrueType or Postscript?
:
TrueType.
We discuss the font issue somewhere in the documentation, although perhaps
not with as much candor as the following:
Andale Mono WT J is exactly the font every Kermit user ever wanted, but the
vendor currently doesn't sell it retail. It's an OEM font. They wanted to
license it to us for inclusion in K95, but it would have more than doubled
the price of the shrinkwrap, and could not even have been included in bulk
or academic site licenses without adding several 0's to the price.
I told them they should start selling it retail. One way to convince them
is for people to ask. Send e-mail to support@monotype.com. If they get a
lot of these, maybe they'll put it on the market. It won't be cheap, but
it might be affordable, and once it starts moving the price might come down.
Meanwhile EMT is our attempt to fill the gap, but it needs a lot of work.
We simply don't have the font expertise, tools, and [wo]manpower that
Monotype does. Still EMT is not bad at all at certain sizes in certain
color combinations (such as black on white) for text applications. The main
problems with EMT are what many people characterize as its thinness or
lightness, the loose line spacing, and the failure of box- and line-drawing
characters to align. (This stuff is not hard to do in a bitmap font like
Terminal, but it's REALLY hard to get right with a well-populated Unicode
font). For the record, EMT was contributed by volunteers who enjoy working
on fonts and promoting Unicode, and we're grateful for it. We hope it will
be improved in future releases.
EMT includes Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian,
Georgian, Runes, Ogham, Canadian Syllabics, Cherokee, Math, Symbols, Line
and Box Drawing Characters (including the new Unicode 3.1 Terminal Emulation
Characters proposed by us), Dingbats, and APL, which is way more than any
monospace font that comes with Windows or, to my knowledge, any that you can
download for free. (If I'm wrong, I'd like to find out!)
Andale Mono WT J includes all of that (except the new terminal emulation
characters), plus Chinese, Japanese, Korean (Hangul), Indic, Ethiopic,
Syriac, Thai, Lao, Braille, and some other stuff, and its line/box
characters mostly line up and join correctly.
- Frank