Re: [Freefont-bugs] Willing to help

[Panayotis Katsaloulis]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:07:10 +0200 (METDST)
Primoz PETERLIN <address@hidden> wrote:

> I've noticed that there exists a user "teras" with a real name equal
> to yours, so if you can confirm this is indeed you I will make it a
> developer.

Yes, that's me :)

Well, for start I'll try  to add the missing ancient greek
(accented) characters in Serif and SansSerif, since this is something
that we urgently need in Greece (to display "polytonika" texts), and as
a second step the various archaic symbols.

About the coptic symbols, although it is in the "greek" character set, I
am not directly interested for the time being (these symbols are for
newer papers) and I don't know if I'll do it right now.

The thing that I'd like to comment is that I tried to load the font,
make the changes and save the font again. Then I "diff"ed the two files
in order to send the differencies. The problem is that I have a bunch of
differencies like 

$ diff new/ old/
---
> Encoding: 64314 64314 3221
111721c112109
< Encoding: 64315 64315
---
> Encoding: 64315 64315 3222
111730c112118
< Encoding: 64316 64316
---
> Encoding: 64316 64316 3223
111739c112127
< Encoding: 64318 64318
---
> Encoding: 64318 64318 3224
111748c112136
< Encoding: 64320 64320

This is repeated for every provided glyph. Since I don't want to change
anything on the original glyphs, is this any special parameter in
pfaedit I should set? Or a special option?

One more thing I'd like to ask is the distance I am supposed to leave
between glyphs (excuse me if you find this question naive). Some
grek letters have accents in front or behind them. What is the proper
distance to define for these characters? Should the glyph be wide enough
to occupy the letter together with the accents,  or (the default) the
width is only the width of the letter?

I have a proposition also: you probably know Thryomanes font. As I can
see it is released under GPL (just like these fonts, right?)
Why don't you include this font inside the package?
:)


PS: I've seen some work of Yannis Haralambous, and used some ofnts that
he created. Unfortunately I am not an Omega user (I still use TeX) but I
am thinking of moving up to omega one day, hehe.

-- 
My being refuses to be hooked up on a line.