Re: exporting to PDF multi-lingual document

[Thomas Dye]

Google’s Noto font might have the best coverage and is open source. 

Tom

> On Jul 2, 2023, at 7:48 PM, Stefan Nobis <stefan-ml@snobis.de> wrote:
> 
> Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> 
>> Though ideally all the necessary fonts should be provided by
>> TeXLive. I am not sure why they are not yet there in 2023.
> 
> First problem: Is there any free/libre font out there that has a
> really broad and comprehensive coverage of Unicode glyphs? I really
> don't know, but from time to time I hear about fonts that I assumed to
> have good Unicode coverage that this is not the case (e.g. TeX Gyre).
> I think, it is just an enormous amount of work to produce a complete
> Unicode font (even more so, if it should look nice).
> 
> The other problem: Not everyone does a full installation of TeX Live.
> So even if good fonts are available, they are not always installed on
> every system (but this part could be mitigated by documentation and/or
> error messages and hints).
> 
> But I'm no Unicode or font expert (I only need latin letters). I'm
> just impressed what is already possible and about all the work done by
> volunteers. And sometimes I'm astonished by how much work is still to
> do for a complete and smooth Unicode experience. :)
> 
> -- 
> Until the next mail...,
> Stefan.
>