[sword-devel] Wanted: Font developers

[Patrick Durusau]

Chris,

I will have to check with the SBL office but I suspect we would be 
willing to allow the Sword project to use the SBL fonts (currently under 
development). The Hebrew module is almost finished, with Greek to follow 
this summer and the Western and diacritical sets before the Annual 
Meeting in November. Unicode and OpenType compliant font by John Hudson 
of Tiro.com, who develops fonts for Microsoft and others. We have been 
very pleased with his work.

One special feature of the font is that it is being designed so that the 
Hebrew, Greek and Western characters work well together in terms of 
appearance. There is a name for that but at 6:30 AM, it escapes me. ;-)

The font is going to be free to individual users but publishers who use 
it in published works need to join the SBL Font Foundation, which has 
been setup to add more scripts to the font set, such as Syriac, and to 
provide for long term maintenance of the font as technology changes.

I will put in a query today and should have an answer before we meet in 
Dallas next week.

Hope everyone is having a great day!

Patrick

Chris Little wrote:

>Do we have any font developers lurking out there, who might be interested 
>in working on a font for CrossWire/The SWORD Project?
>
>I'm running into a lot of problems finding suitable fonts for some
>modules, partly because most fonts are still targeting Unicode 2.x (at
>best).  Code2000 has good codepoint support--I'm sure it will support
>Unicode 4.0 very soon if it doesn't already--but most people I've heard
>from don't like the appearance of its Latin characters.  And I don't know
>of any single font that supports Latin characters in Plane 1 along with
>Latin/Greek/Hebrew from Plane 0.
>
>So... anyone interested?  I'd love to work on this myself, but since I 
>have absolutely no typeface design experience, I'm probably not the best 
>person for the job.
>
>What I'm ultimately looking for is something to cover all of the Latin, 
>Greek, & Hebrew ranges (optionally excluding deprecated characters like 
>most of the Extended Greek range), plus combining diacritics, 
>punctionation, etc.
>
>And if anyone can point out nice looking fonts (i.e. not Vera) that 
>permit modification & redistribution, that would be helpful too since they 
>could potentially serve as a basis.
>
>--Chris
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Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
Patrick.Durusau@sbl-site.org
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model