Re: [DejaVu-fonts] First try at completing the Romanian diacritics

[Stepan R. <st...@sr...>]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004, Misu Moldovan wrote:

> I've started to work on the missing Romanian diacritics in DejaVu. I've d=
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> all the necessary characters in DejaVu Serif. They are:
>
> =C3 =3D U+0102 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
> =E3 =3D U+0103 LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
> =DE =3D U+0162 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
> =FE =3D U+0163 LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA
> =3D U+0218 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
> =3D U+0219 LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
> =3D U+021A LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
> =3D U+021B LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
>
> I've tried to only use references, for example abreve (U+0103) is referen=
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> to a (U+0061) and breve (U+02D8). Because there was nothing for comma bel=
low,=20
> I've created a comma bellow (U+0326) by referencing to comma (U+002C) and=
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> I've referenced that for the last four characters in the above list that=
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> needed a comma bellow.

Good work. I think it would be better to detach comma below from comma,=20
because even if they could have same shape, they are in fact two different=
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characters. Any opinions from others?

Anyway because I prefer applying changes to all typefaces at once=20
(simplifies tracking of changes) I'm going to apply your changes after=20
full completion (or before next release whichever comes first).

> But I'm not fully satisfied with the way some accented characters look=20
> in DejaVu/Vera. For example at small sizes the accents of acircumflex=20
> and icircumflex look misplaced. For your information, I'm using Debian=20
> Sid with freetype 2.1.7 .

Is this FreeType with autohinter or with TT hinter?

> Am I allowed to modify those characters to improve the way they look at=
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> small sizes?

As said in another post to this thread this is a deeper problem which must=
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be investigated first.

Have a nice day.

Stepan Roh