[XeTeX] font licenses and embedding

Ujjwol Lamichhane ujjwollamichhane at gmail.com
Sat Sep 25 18:28:07 CEST 2010


On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Arthur Reutenauer <
arthur.reutenauer at normalesup.org> wrote:

> > Guys! I have access to that font(DV-TTSurekh-Normal).
>
>   It's not the one Mike used, he mentioned SD-TTSurekh.  In fact, a
> Google search for DV-TTSurekh gives as first hit a link to download it,
> without any indication as to the legality of this.
>
>  But what you say probably applies to SD-TTSurekh as well:
>
> >                                                       As far as I know it
> is
> > said that font is made in 1996-97. And it in no way a Unicode OpenType
> Font.
> > It is an ASCII hack font for Devanagari. The Devanagari glyph are draw in
> > latin names. So, for example when you type a you will get क as glyph of
> a.
>
>   According to http://fr.fontstock.net/11471/sd-ttsurekh-normal.html
> where you can see samples, the glyph for क is encoded at E, not a.  But
> it's not at all Unicode-compliant anyway.
>
> I was just giving example just in case how hack fonts work. Not showing
real encoding. ;)


>  > So just telling fontspec the font name will not work of that font as I
> know.
>
>   Indeed no.
>
>        Arthur
>
>
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