[sword-devel] Wanted: Font developers

[Chris Little]

Patrick,

Sounds great if that's a possibility.  I didn't know SBL planned to do all
of those ranges--all I'd heard about was the plans for Hebrew.  Most of
the glyphs I'm interested are probably the same ones SBL would be
interested in, incluing new ones like superscript latin e and fraktur
uppercase p that get used in standard transliteration schemes and critical
apparatuses.  Even if someone from Sword did manage to produce a font with
all the needed glyphs, I doubt they'd find the time to do the quality of
hinting, kerning, or OpenType tables that John Hudson will.

--Chris


On Thu, 15 May 2003, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Chris,
> 
> I will have to check with the SBL office but I suspect we would be 
> willing to allow the Sword project to use the SBL fonts (currently under 
> development). The Hebrew module is almost finished, with Greek to follow 
> this summer and the Western and diacritical sets before the Annual 
> Meeting in November. Unicode and OpenType compliant font by John Hudson 
> of Tiro.com, who develops fonts for Microsoft and others. We have been 
> very pleased with his work.
> 
> One special feature of the font is that it is being designed so that the 
> Hebrew, Greek and Western characters work well together in terms of 
> appearance. There is a name for that but at 6:30 AM, it escapes me. ;-)
> 
> The font is going to be free to individual users but publishers who use 
> it in published works need to join the SBL Font Foundation, which has 
> been setup to add more scripts to the font set, such as Syriac, and to 
> provide for long term maintenance of the font as technology changes.
> 
> I will put in a query today and should have an answer before we meet in 
> Dallas next week.