[KS] Unicode-mapped diacritic latin fonts

Charles Muller acmuller at human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp
Sat Jan 30 05:32:45 EST 1999


Colleagues:

I am happy to pass on the following information to you from Jost Gippert:

Jost's digital resources team at the University of Frankfurt (the TITUS
group) has, with the generous support of Bitstream, recently completed its
set of Unicode-mapped fonts for all Latin characters--including the full set
of diacritics for East Asian, Indic and Tibetan languages (etc.) for which
many of us
have been waiting for some time now.

Bitstream has kindly agreed to make these fonts available free of charge and
without licensing constraints, which means that you can freely copy and use
them as you wish. According to Jost, there are still some further
refinements to be made on these fonts (for instance, the final version will
display a bit better on-screen), so this is not the "official"
release. The
final release will be available from his site in about a month.

Nonetheless,
I have tried them in their present state on my system, and they are working
quite well thus far.
Unfortunately, they will presently work only on Windows 9x and NT4.0
systems. Howie Lan at Berkeley says that he will try to get them to function
on Mac as well, so Mac users may have something positive to look forward to.
I have put a set on my site for download, but please check back to
the TITUS site in a month or so to get the final version.

At my site:

http://www.acmuller.gol.com/titusu.zip

Jost's site is:

http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/seer/index.htm


Enjoy!

Chuck Muller
Resources for East Asian Language and Thought
http://www.human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp/~acmuller




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