[unifont] Fwd: Installing upper plain font

[Paul Hardy]

I didn't notice at first that Kertase's email was not private correspondence.

What might be possible is combining all three TrueType files into one font file that consists of three typefaces.  I do not know how to do that.  If any Fontforge experts would like to explain how that could be done, please do.  However, I am not planning on making any (more!) radical changes before the Debian freeze, currently scheduled for 5 November 2016.  I would want a major change like that to be testable for some time before a Debian freeze.

Regards,

Paul

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From: Paul Hardy <address@hidden>
Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [unifont] Installing upper plain font
To: Kertase <address@hidden>

Kertase,

On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 1:15 PM, Kertase <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi,

I wanted to know if there is a way to install for example the upper and
the csur font so they get used automatically as if part of unifont when
using characters not in the basic unifont.ttf.

Thanks

If you install all 3 TTF files on your computer, depending on your operating system, it should find and use them.

The issue is that one TrueType font cannot contain more than 2^16 glyphs, and and so the Plane 0 Unifont file (with over 57,000 glyphs by itself) cannot be combined with either of those other two files.

In the worst case, you might have to select the Upper Unifont or CSUR Unifont TrueType fonts in an editor.

Hopefully a future revision of the TrueType standard will allow more than 2^16 glyphs per font.  I expect the driving force behind that will be for use of historical Chinese, because Unicode contains over 100,000 CJK ideographs.

Thank you for your interest in Unifont,

Paul Hardy