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Andre Majorel
Nov 1, 2012, 7:31:45 AM11/1/12
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Can you recommend a fixed-width PostScript font with dotted or
slashed zeros and good Unicode coverage ? Courier is what I'm
trying to get away from. Inconsolata
(http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) is pretty good
but latin-only. And ISO 8859-15 at that, which complicates
things because all the source docs I have that are not UTF-8 are
ISO 8859-1.
Needs to be released under a fairly liberal licence ; I may have
to bundle it with a GPL'd program.
Thanks in advance.
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André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
J'ai des droits. Les autres ont des devoirs.
slashed zeros and good Unicode coverage ? Courier is what I'm
trying to get away from. Inconsolata
(http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) is pretty good
but latin-only. And ISO 8859-15 at that, which complicates
things because all the source docs I have that are not UTF-8 are
ISO 8859-1.
Needs to be released under a fairly liberal licence ; I may have
to bundle it with a GPL'd program.
Thanks in advance.
--
André Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
J'ai des droits. Les autres ont des devoirs.
Helge Blischke
Nov 1, 2012, 8:05:37 AM11/1/12
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Andre Majorel wrote:
> Can you recommend a fixed-width PostScript font with dotted or
> slashed zeros and good Unicode coverage ? Courier is what I'm
> trying to get away from. Inconsolata
> (http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) is pretty good
> but latin-only. And ISO 8859-15 at that, which complicates
> things because all the source docs I have that are not UTF-8 are
> ISO 8859-1.
>
> Needs to be released under a fairly liberal licence ; I may have
> to bundle it with a GPL'd program.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Try the fonts of the Monospace family (originally by Bitstream) but
> Can you recommend a fixed-width PostScript font with dotted or
> slashed zeros and good Unicode coverage ? Courier is what I'm
> trying to get away from. Inconsolata
> (http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) is pretty good
> but latin-only. And ISO 8859-15 at that, which complicates
> things because all the source docs I have that are not UTF-8 are
> ISO 8859-1.
>
> Needs to be released under a fairly liberal licence ; I may have
> to bundle it with a GPL'd program.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
delivered for free with CUPS (up to and including 1.5.x). It has dotted
zeros.
Helge
Andre Majorel
Nov 1, 2012, 9:26:16 AM11/1/12
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On 2012-11-01, Helge Blischke <h.bli...@acm.org> wrote:
> Try the fonts of the Monospace family (originally by
> Bitstream) but delivered for free with CUPS (up to and
> including 1.5.x). It has dotted zeros.
The Monospace font in CUPS seems to be ISO 8859-1 only. But
> Try the fonts of the Monospace family (originally by
> Bitstream) but delivered for free with CUPS (up to and
> including 1.5.x). It has dotted zeros.
thanks.
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Andr� Majorel http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/
James Cloos
Nov 1, 2012, 3:45:37 PM11/1/12
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Does it have to be a type1 font?
If type42 is OK, I'd use DejaVu Mono from:
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
(and also included in nearly every Linux or BSD dist).
Since the fontforge src is included, you can use fontforge to generate
type1 or cff files for Deja, too.
Deja's is based on Bitstream Vera. The changes from Vera are explicity
released to the public domain.
The same deal applies (except the origin and license) for
Liberation Mono from:
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts
Liberation is released under Sil's OFL-1.1.
-JimC
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James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
If type42 is OK, I'd use DejaVu Mono from:
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net
(and also included in nearly every Linux or BSD dist).
Since the fontforge src is included, you can use fontforge to generate
type1 or cff files for Deja, too.
Deja's is based on Bitstream Vera. The changes from Vera are explicity
released to the public domain.
The same deal applies (except the origin and license) for
Liberation Mono from:
https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts
Liberation is released under Sil's OFL-1.1.
-JimC
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James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
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