Re: fonts: 20 ppem Wine Sans Serif

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 11:51:24AM +0100, Huw D M Davies wrote:
>     Huw Davies <[e-mail]>
>     Add a 20 ppem strike with cp1252 coverage to Wine Sans Serif.
>     Add U+201a to all strikes.

Huw,

What's the current status for fonts. I think they deserve a section
under the UI Status:
    http://www.winehq.org/site/status_ui

What do we have currently, in what state, what's left to do?

fonts: 20 ppem Wine Sans Serif

[Huw D M Davies]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:50:07AM -0400, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> What's the current status for fonts. I think they deserve a section
> under the UI Status:
>    http://www.winehq.org/site/status_ui
>
> What do we have currently, in what state, what's left to do?

Hi,

We have replacements for MS Sans Serif, Courier, System and Marlett.
Marlett is a TrueType font and that's essentially complete thanks to
TransGaming.

The others are bitmap fonts and under Windows these come in localized
versions and also in two resolutions (96 and 120 dpi).  I've only been
working on the 96 dpi strikes so far and the table summarizes the
number of strikes compeleted/no in Windows for each font in a given
codepage.  (1250 - east europe, 1251 - cyrillic, 1252 - latin 1)

1250    1251    1252 
System                    1/1     1/1     1/1

Courier                   1/3     1/3     1/3

MS Sans Serif             2/6     2/6     3/6

Actually the cp1251 sets aren't quite 100% complete as there are a few
non-Russian characters that Dmitry hasn't done.

There is nothing so far for Greek, Turkish, Hebrew or Arabic codepages.
and we're entirely missing MS Serif, Terminal and Small fonts.

We're also missing replacement TrueType fonts for Tahoma and
Microsoft Sans Serif (which is different from MS Sans Serif!) - these
are considerably more effort than the bitmap ones.

On the coding side of things, we'll need a way to select which set of
bitmap fonts are used based on the current locale.

Hope that's useful,
Huw.

fonts: 20 ppem Wine Sans Serif

[Mike Hearn]

> We're also missing replacement TrueType fonts for Tahoma and
> Microsoft Sans Serif (which is different from MS Sans Serif!) - these
> are considerably more effort than the bitmap ones.

Are these the ones where they need to be correctly hinted which costs 
bazillions of dollars? Or, is it actually feasable to do them just with 
volunteer effort?

fonts: 20 ppem Wine Sans Serif

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Mike Hearn  wrote:
> Are these the ones where they need to be correctly hinted which costs
>
> bazillions of dollars? Or, is it actually feasable to do them just
> with 
> volunteer effort?

We have found at least one person (Wierd_w) that is willing to make the
effort. The hinting and kerning still need a good bit of work but from
this image you can see the progress he is making.

Thanks
Steven

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fonts: 20 ppem Wine Sans Serif

[Steven Edwards]

Hi,

--- Huw D M Davies  wrote:
> We're also missing replacement TrueType fonts for Tahoma and
> Microsoft Sans Serif (which is different from MS Sans Serif!) - these
> are considerably more effort than the bitmap ones.

We have a Tahoma replacement (Greenville) comming from ReactOS which is
almost done the only problem is the developer is not using fontforge to
create it. I dont remeber the name of the tool but it is a very
expensive font creation program.

Thanks
Steven

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