Re: Lucidux fonts

["Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

At 08:58 PM 3/30/2000 +0100, Walter Schmidt wrote:

> I have just tried to install (for use with TeX) the Lucidux fonts
> distributed with XFree86 4.0. I am astonished to see that these
> fonts are apparently lacking many common glyphs; e.g., as to 
> Lucidux Sans:

> `guilsinglleft' 
> `guilsinglright' 
> `quotedblleft' 
> `quotedblright' 
> `quotedblbase' 
> `endash' 
> `emdash'

> and more. At least, these glyphs are not listed in the afm
file.
> What is wrong here?  Do I misunderstand what these fonts are
made for? 
> Are my afm's corrupt?

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No. These fonts were made to cover all of the ISO Latin character 
sets for Western Europe, as stated in the material that comes with 
the fonts.  In particular, they cover ISO Latin 1, the character set
widely used on Unix.  They also cover the corresponding
"pages"
(256 glyph blocks) of UNICODE.  This is in agreement with
XFree86.

The particular glyphs you mention are not in these ISO Latin 8859 
character sets.   As a result, these fonts do not cover all of
the 
Windows and  Macintosh character sets.

We may at a future date make versions of these fonts that include 
extra glyphs.  These would be made available through Y&Y,
Inc.

Regards, Berthold Horn

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