Re: TECH: Russian handwriting font

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From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: TECH: Russian handwriting font


> On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:25:45PM +0200, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>> I'm looking for a Russian handwriting font.  It is important that it
>> look like actual handwriting rather than like hand-drawn block
>> letters.
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> I presume this means using 'm' (the glyph that looks like 'm') for /t/,
> and the mirror-image 's' for /g/, etc.?
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>> Preferably it should look neither too formal or too distorted, and it
>> is of course good if it is free, although the latter is no absolute
>> requirement, seeing how hard it is to find anything along these lines
>> on the internet.
> [...]
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> On my Linux machine, the Postscript fonts for Century Schoolbook L [URW]
> uses handwritten glyphs when italicized, and printed glyphs when
> non-italic. AFAIK, this font should be free (in the Open Source sense).
> However, it's a Postscript font and not TTF, so if you're on Windows
> this probably doesn't help you.
For Win XP, there're the TrueType fonts Century Schoolbook (without the
"L"), Times New Roman and, for Russian only, Arial.
Here is a sample: http://users.skynet.be/fa597525/Cyritalic.jpg

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