Re(2): Italic open-o in omega

>The Italic version of the omlgc fonts lacks Cyrillic characters as
>well, although their outlines are present in the .pfb files. I think,
>the authors haven't any plans in further developing these fonts.
>Since they are planning to completely redesign the font handling
>engine sometime, they don't want to do anything to improve it right now.

That's very kind of you. In fact there are two independant tasks: adaptin=
g
Omega to OpenType, and completing the font design project.

Actually we have designed the Latin part (including IPA) for all styles
(roman, italic, bold, bold italic). I can send you big PFB files containi=
ng
these glyphs but I don't have the time right now to build an OVP file out
of them. Do you want these PFB files? The problem is that since these fil=
es
we still change in the near future, if we start distributing them widely
people will end up with $n$ different versions of the same fonts...

Cyrillic italics are still missing.

>> I realize that using TT fonts with Omega isn't as easy as one might
>> wish, but there are apparently ways to get there (perhaps involving
>> conversion to other formats?).
>
>Well, but this means we have to create several *.pfb files from one
>large ttf? First, I'm unsure if such an operation is always possible
>due to the license restrictions. Second, which encodings should we
>use for these pfb files, if we want:
>
>a) to preserve kerning information containing in the original font;
>
>b) to preserve all specific characters not present in standard 8-bit
>codepages?

The new odvips (patched by G=E1bor Bella) reads PFC files, which are obta=
ined
from TrueType and OpenType fonts. Encodings are not a problem if you stic=
k
to glyph names as specified by Adobe.

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