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Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24
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Joe Wells |
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Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24 |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 14:16:26 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
"Steve White" <address@hidden> writes:
> Joe,
>
>>
>> • The older glyphs for the quote characters (i.e., ', ", ", ') are
>> much nicer for a screen font. It would be nice to be able to get
>> the old glyphs somehow.
By the way, by the last sentence I meant “it would be nice if there
was some way to select the older glyphs without changing the default
glyphs for these characters”.
> It seems to me that yours is an aesthetic judgement about the shapes
> of the glyphs. On second look, I agree. My "curly" quotes look out
> of place in this face.
>
> The standard specifies that the glyphs should be distinct from certain
> other glyphs, but their shape is only suggested.
Actually (unfortunately), it turns out there are some fairly specific
guidelines about the shape of these characters.
I like the old freefont shapes from 2003-06-24 better, but the person
who made the bug report about German use of “ (U+201C LEFT DOUBLE
QUOTATION MARK) and ‘ (U+2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK) seems to be
correct (unfortunately!).
As evidence for their correctness, here are the entries in the
official NamesList.txt file:
2018 LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
= SINGLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
* this is the preferred glyph (as opposed to 201B)
x (apostrophe - 0027)
x (modifier letter turned comma - 02BB)
x (heavy single turned comma quotation mark ornament - 275B)
201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
= DOUBLE TURNED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
* this is the preferred glyph (as opposed to 201F)
x (quotation mark - 0022)
x (heavy double turned comma quotation mark ornament - 275D)
x (reversed double prime quotation mark - 301D)
Notice that both of these characters have alternate names that include
the wording “TURNED COMMA”. In the context of Unicode character
names, “TURNED” means “rotated 180°”.
The older freefont glyphs for these characters are actually much
closer to these other characters:
201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
= SINGLE REVERSED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
* glyph variant of 2018
x (modifier letter reversed comma - 02BD)
201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
= DOUBLE REVERSED COMMA QUOTATION MARK
* glyph variant of 201C
In the context of Unicode character names, “REVERSED” means “vertical
mirror image (flipped on the vertical axis)”. The comments indicate
that the glyphs for U+201B and U+201F are considered wrong for U+2018
and U+201C.
> In previous releases, the quote-left U2018 was just wrong. Since I
> think of these as "curly" quotes, I tried to make them curly, and
> distinct from "primes" (U2032+). But the standard doesn't say the
> quotes have to be distinct from the primes. I think cases where it
> would matter, would be very rare, and questionable.
I disagree on this point. I personally find it very important that
primes and quotes are distinct, because I use both heavily. (I'm a
mathematician.)
> So basically, I put the shapes back as they were, like the comma in
> Mono, and just made sure the directions and senses of the quotes
> matched the standard.
>
> To appear in the next release.
Can you e-mail PNG images of what the changed glyphs look like?
--
Joe
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- Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, (continued)
- Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, Steve White, 2008/04/12
- Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, James Cloos, 2008/04/08
- [Freefont-bugs] Re: a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, Joe Wells, 2008/04/08
- Re: [Freefont-bugs] Re: a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, James Cloos, 2008/04/10
- Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, Steve White, 2008/04/09
- Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, James Cloos, 2008/04/09
Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24, Steve White, 2008/04/05
- Re: [Freefont-bugs] a comparison of FreeMono.ttf versions of 2003-06-24 and 2008-03-24,
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