Unicode font problem

[Sergiu Dumitriu-2]

Hi devs,

I almost finished implementing http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1609
What remains to be done, is to find a good font to embed in XWiki.

The best candidate would be the one from the StixFonts project, but that one is not yet released
(delayed several years, now apparently is in the packaging stage; the expected date is August, but
given the history of their release dates, it's more likely sometime in the winter or even next year).

The next best candidate is FreeFont (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/), but that one is
GPL, and doesn't have complete support for asian characters.

The third best candidate is an extended version of Computer Modern
(http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/), which is distributed under the X11 license, but it
is less complete than FreeFont.

For the moment, I'd be in favor of including the FreeFont, but we need to see if a GPL font can be
redistributed or not, and maybe ask for permission to include it.

WDYT?
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[polx]

are the beta stix fonts acceptable and solving these issues?
They are available from the Mozilla MathML web-page.

Their design goal is in principle the best for it I feel.

paul


Le 04-juil.-08 à 06:38, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :

> Hi devs,
>
> I almost finished implementing http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1609
> What remains to be done, is to find a good font to embed in XWiki.
>
> The best candidate would be the one from the StixFonts project, but  
> that one is not yet released
> (delayed several years, now apparently is in the packaging stage;  
> the expected date is August, but
> given the history of their release dates, it's more likely sometime  
> in the winter or even next year).
>
> The next best candidate is FreeFont (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ 
> ), but that one is
> GPL, and doesn't have complete support for asian characters.
>
> The third best candidate is an extended version of Computer Modern
> (http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/), which is  
> distributed under the X11 license, but it
> is less complete than FreeFont.
>
> For the moment, I'd be in favor of including the FreeFont, but we  
> need to see if a GPL font can be
> redistributed or not, and maybe ask for permission to include it.
>
> WDYT?
> --
> Sergiu Dumitriu
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[Sergiu Dumitriu-2]

Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> are the beta stix fonts acceptable and solving these issues?
> They are available from the Mozilla MathML web-page.
>
> Their design goal is in principle the best for it I feel.
>

Yes, but I'd rather wait for the final version to include it in XWiki. I also have the beta fonts
locally, but I don't think they were supposed to be used in stable applications.

Update: I asked the FreeFont guys if there are any problems with the GPL/LGPL licenses, and they
said it is OK to include their font in our product. For the moment, having at least support for some
non-latin1 languages is better than nothing. I'll add some documentation about how to change the
default font, in case someone needs to export chinese documents to PDF.

>
>
> Le 04-juil.-08 à 06:38, Sergiu Dumitriu a écrit :
>
>> Hi devs,
>>
>> I almost finished implementing
>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-1609
>> What remains to be done, is to find a good font to embed in XWiki.
>>
>> The best candidate would be the one from the StixFonts project, but
>> that one is not yet released
>> (delayed several years, now apparently is in the packaging stage; the
>> expected date is August, but
>> given the history of their release dates, it's more likely sometime in
>> the winter or even next year).
>>
>> The next best candidate is FreeFont
>> (http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/), but that one is
>> GPL, and doesn't have complete support for asian characters.
>>
>> The third best candidate is an extended version of Computer Modern
>> (http://canopus.iacp.dvo.ru/~panov/cm-unicode/), which is distributed
>> under the X11 license, but it
>> is less complete than FreeFont.
>>
>> For the moment, I'd be in favor of including the FreeFont, but we need
>> to see if a GPL font can be
>> redistributed or not, and maybe ask for permission to include it.
>>

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