[XeTeX] Font protrusion --- new or old ?

[Peter Baker]

Aieeee! You do me no favor at all inviting comment about the quality  
of Junicode. Let me head off that thread right now. You can talk about  
Libertine.

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On Feb 9, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex.ru> wrote:

> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:48:55 +0100
>
>> So far, I haven't seen any single well-designed typeface
>> that would be made with FontForge, so I sort of ignore it :)
>
> ...And that's not strange, because well designed typefaces
> are very rare even among those designed with FontLab. I was
> greatly disappointed several times bying highly overpriced
> commercial fonts just to realize their quality leaves much to be
> desired.
>
> On the other hand, I know at least two free font families (designed
> with FontForge) which mostly meet my quality standards: Peter
> Baker's Junicode (http://junicode.sourceforge.net) and Linux
> Libertine by Philipp H. Poll (http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net).
> I would also be grateful to hear your opinion about my own Old
> Standard and Theano (http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html).
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Alexey Kryukov <anagnost at yandex dot ru>
>
> Moscow State University
> Historical Faculty
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