[FM Discuss] Unicode fonts with complete Italics and Bolds

[adam]

we have used Deja Vu :
http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page

and fontin:
http://www.josbuivenga.demon.nl/fontin.html


deja vu is pretty well complete. i think also fontin but cant say for
sure

adam


On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:29 +1100, Lachlan Musicman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 05:07, Vito Smolej <smolejv at gmx.net> wrote:
> >  From all the fonts I tested, when they have the full character set
> > (e.g., MS
> >
> > Arial Unicode), they have no bold and italic for the Latin characters. This
> > is not usable, because some parts with English in bold and italic might
> > still appear in say, a Japanese localization. With a font without bold and
> > italic, all I get in the target PDF is question marks instead of the
> > characters.
> >
> > Would anyone know of a suitable font, preferably free, or freeware if no
> > free one is available?
> 
> Unfortunately there are very few all-purpose fonts, (ie, has full
> unicode, including bold and italic) so we may have to offer a
> collection that together cover the whole set. What specifically were
> you after that you didn't get? I don't quite understand since your
> email seems to propose a potential problem rather than an exact
> problem...
> 
> What I'm trying to say is: what characters are you missing, we can
> find something that fills the gap. It may be that some books will have
> to have a smattering of fonts through it to properly express the
> authors intention - annoying, but not debilitatingly so.
> 
> cheers
> L.
> 
> 
> 
> >
> > TiA
> >
> > smo
> >
> >
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