Re: [Groff] New PS Fonts package

[Larry Kollar]

Michail Vidiassov wrote:

> given the Unicode capabilities of the upcoming 1.19.3 it would be nice to
> create a set of fonts descriptions for some family of "unicode" fonts
>  (with most of the glyphs groff can typeset - extended latin and cyrillic)
>  and, may be,
> include it as an optional or contributed part of the groff distribution.
> 
> What are the options for such a family?
> AFAIK the best URW derivatives now are Gyre fonts - they are PostScript,
> GPL, have lots of glyphs and are developed/mainatined.
> 
> MS Core fonts look like an alternative - they are less free, TrueType -
> but they are MS!
> 
> Please, post your opinion on the desirability of such font description
> package, choice of fonts etc.

DejaVu (forked version of Bitstream Vera family, includes support
for Greek & Cyrillic), would be nice to have supported by default.

http://dejavu.sf.net/

-- Larry