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FS#4971 - Nimbus-14 font with cyrillic and some east european glyphs

Attached to Project: Rockbox
Opened by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Friday, 31 March 2006, 09:56 GMT+2
Last edited by Ben Basha (paprica) - Saturday, 01 April 2006, 02:14 GMT+2
Task Type Patches
Category Font/charset
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Player Type All players
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Private No

Details

I have some files with cyrillic characters in the tags. But I don't like the unifont since it's too thin for my taste. So I added cyrillic chracters to the my favorite font nimbus-14 (it's thicker and hence easier to read). And while I was at it I also added some east european characters since they all look very similar. I have not added any chinese/korean/japanese glyphs.

There is another patch for nimbus-14 with cyrillic and chinese glyphs, but it was created automatically from some TrueType font so the symbols don't look very nice. Here every symbol was "designed carefully."
   nimbus-14-cyr.zip (9 KiB)
This task depends upon

Closed by  Marcoen Hirschberg (marcoen)
Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 11:29 GMT+2
Reason for closing:  Accepted
Comment by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Friday, 31 March 2006, 16:05 GMT+2
Hm... I somehow managed to select the false category :-(
Comment by Andrés Odio (AndresOdio) - Saturday, 01 April 2006, 23:13 GMT+2
Do you mind if I use your .bdf to post an updated version of my patch (with the Chinese characters)? That way we can have a more complete version of the font with both good-looking Eastern European and Chinese glyphs.
Comment by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Monday, 03 April 2006, 09:02 GMT+2
No, I surely don't mind.
Comment by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Monday, 03 April 2006, 09:40 GMT+2
Here is also a version of nimbus-12 (only with cyrillic glyphs, no east european glyphs are included)
   nimbus-12-cyr.zip (12 KiB)
Comment by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Tuesday, 04 April 2006, 10:38 GMT+2
And here is a version of nimbus-14 with hebrew glyphs as well. I'm not an expert in hebrew calligraphy, so use with care ;-)
   nimbus14-cyr-heb.zip (17.4 KiB)
Comment by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Tuesday, 04 April 2006, 13:37 GMT+2
Corrected some ascents/descents and added hebrew to nimbus-12
   nimbus-cyr-heb.zip (36.6 KiB)
Comment by Andrés Odio (AndresOdio) - Wednesday, 05 April 2006, 03:09 GMT+2
Thanks Al, I have updated my nimbus-based Chinese font with your cyrillic, eastern european, and hebrew glyphs. Can you test it out to see if it displays them properly?
Comment by Alexander Levin (fml2) - Thursday, 06 April 2006, 10:43 GMT+2
Hi Andrés,

everething seems to be Ok. By the way, in my last update (from Apr 4), I have screwed up the nimbus-14: the white space is too wide.
Comment by Alexander Spyridakis (xaviergr) - Wednesday, 31 May 2006, 12:18 GMT+2
Amazing work Ben!

Could you make a version with greek glyphs too?
Is it an easy task to do so? How exactly do you insert new glyphs?

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