Re: OFF: Free Software

John Cowan wrote:
>>>>>>
Paul Bennett scripsit:

> *I* just volunteered to produce fonts for free (as have others in this list),
Sorry, I thought you were saying you *would* volunteer if you had the
skills: quite a different statement.
<<<<<<

Kinda.  If anyone really wants to entrust their font to a rank ammateur armed
with very simple software, they're free to.  Had I been more confident of my
ability to do a better job, I'd have spoken up on those occasions people have
asked for someone to do their font.

>>>>>>
> one problem is getting copyright-free source material, and if I could draw
As others have pointed out, fonts themselves are not copyrightable.
<<<<<<

Yeah, um, sorry.  I think I may have known this, but I got myself so darned
worked up into what was originally a quite harsh and rambling post about "Free
Enterprise, Communism and The State Of The World Today" (TM) that I lost track
of a few "minor details :-)".

The Moral Of The Story (as we all know) is:
Always go and make a cup of coffee before hitting "Send" on a Flame.

The More Important Lesson To Be Learned is:
When correcting the aforementioned Flame, you may need to do more than just hit
"Delete Paragraph" a few times.

>>>>>>
Note that there is now a fairly complete fixed-with X font:

(I can't find the URL at present).
<<<<<<

There's an X font for the whole of Unicode?
Zoinks!






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