Re: Please include these fonts to the default xorg distribution

[Jungshik Shin <jshin mailaps org>]

Soon-Son Kwon wrote:

> Two Korean fonts are released today.
>
> The UnFont is lincensed under GPL and
> the Baekmuk is under BSD.
>
> Can anyone in charge of handling fonts issue please check if these 
> fonts can be added to default xorg distribution?
>
> You can download them at the following URL.
>
> http://kldp.net/projects/unfonts/
> http://kldp.net/projects/baekmuk
>  

Baekmuk fonts have been included in major Linux distributions for the 
last few years. Un-series fonts are included in the latest version of 
SuSe Linux.  Anyway, if X.org distribution can include them, it'd be 
nice. Here's what I sent to linux-utf8, SuSe Linux devlopers,  RedHat 
bugzilla, Mandrake developers and fonts xfree86 last September about 
Un-series fonts:

Jungshik

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This is to inform the Linux community and the open source community
(and distribution builders) of new sets of Korean truetype fonts,
Un-series fonts (GPL'd) made available thanks to UN Koaunghi
(who painstakingly scanned, converted to outlines and hand-hinted
them all) and PARK Won-Kyu. They're originally made as PS fonts
to use with Korean TeX/LaTeX/OmegaLambda (HLaTeX [1]) by UN Koaunghi in
the late 1990's.  Recently, PARK Won-kyu converted them to truetype fonts
and added GSUB tables to one of them (UnBatang) for the full support of
Korean script with Korean letters (Hangul Jamos : U+1100).

They're available at the moment at (will be available as well later 
somewhere
at http://kldp.net/prjects/unfonts)

http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/project/font/GSUB (UnBatang with GSUB)
http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/project/font/UnFonts (the rest of the series)


Advantages over Baekmuk fonts (included in most Linux distributions) are:

- they come in 7 families        : UnBatang(serif), UnDotum(sans-serif),
                                   UnGungseo(cursive, brush-stroke),
                                   UnPilgi (script), UnShinmun,
                                   UnYetgul (a bit like 'Frankfurt' ? and
                                             old Korean printing style),
                                   UnBom, UnGraphic

- wider character repertoire : covers the fullset of Latin-1 as well
                               as the full set of
                               precomposed Hangul syllables, and
                               Chinese characters in KS X 1001

- three of them come in bold as well as in regular
  (no need to tinker with 'artificial bolding')

- one of them (UnBatangOdal) has GSUB tables for pre-1933 orthography
  Korean text rendering with Korean letters (Hangul Jamos).


 Jungshik

[1]
http://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX and other CTAN archives)