Re: RH - question was: canna + kinput2

[Mike Fabian <mfabian@example.com>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>     Mike> use Ghostscript with the Wadalab CID-keyed fonts which also
>     Mike> looks OK. But I could not get Ghostscript to handle the
>     Mike> vertical font variants correctly
> 
> This is typical "80%" screwage from the people who put the font
> distribution together.  They just didn't finish the job.  I know how
> to fix it on my one system,

So you think the problem is not in Ghostscript, but in the CID-keyed
fonts?  Really? How did you fix it on you system?

The wrapper files I made for Ghostscript are almost identical for the
horizontal and vertical font variants, they differ only in the "V"
and "H". For example:

WadaMin-Bold-EUC-H.gsf contains:

    /WadaMin-Bold-EUC-H
    /WadaMin-Bold (CID/Adobe-Japan1/CIDFont/WadaMin-Bold)
    /EUC-H (CID/Adobe-Japan1/CMap/EUC-H)

    1 index /CMap resourcestatus
    {pop pop pop}
    {runlibfile} ifelse
    /CMap findresource

    3 1 roll
    1 index /CIDFont resourcestatus
    {pop pop pop}
    {runlibfile} ifelse
    /CIDFont findresource

    [ exch ] composefont pop

WadaMin-Bold-EUC-V.gsf contains:

    /WadaMin-Bold-EUC-V
    /WadaMin-Bold (CID/Adobe-Japan1/CIDFont/WadaMin-Bold)
    /EUC-V (CID/Adobe-Japan1/CMap/EUC-V)

    1 index /CMap resourcestatus
    {pop pop pop}
    {runlibfile} ifelse
    /CMap findresource

    3 1 roll
    1 index /CIDFont resourcestatus
    {pop pop pop}
    {runlibfile} ifelse
    /CIDFont findresource

    [ exch ] composefont pop

Do you think the error is in the font itself or in the CMap?

>     Mike> Unfortunately there seem to be no free Japanese TrueType
>     Mike> fonts of comparable quality.
> 
> IMO, it is highly unlikely there will ever be.  For one thing, by the
> time somebody gets around to it everybody will be using OpenType
> anyway.  Practically speaking, the Wadalab fonts are quite poor, but
> they cost about 10 man-years of grad student labor if I recall the
> story correctly.  They're pretty good as government work goes, though.
> Look at the Hershey fonts (if you can stand it...).
> 
> We're just going to need much better tools for font-building before we
> can afford good free fonts.

There are pretty good free TrueType fonts for Chinese (The Arphic PL
fonts) and for Korea as well (the Baekmuk fonts). Why not for Japan?
Isn't that strange?

-- 
Mike Fabian   <mfabian@example.com>