Re: [tlug] Creating UTF-8 Fonts

[Uva Coder <uva.coder@example.com>]

On 4/15/05, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

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> I figure if you're not too picky, you should be able to easily process
> 250 characters/hour.  So for the 10,000 or so characters that a
> typical Japanese font would have you'd be looking at 40 hours.  A
> similar process just blitting all the glyphs to the screen, selecting
> the ugly ones that made it through the first pass, and either using a
> bitmap editor or redoing the selection process to repair them and
> you'd probably have a passable font in 100 hours total, including
> writing the software.
> 
> Provide the software with the font and encourage users to submit
> improved glyphs, you could have some really nice fonts in a calendar
> year.
> 
> I don't know if those numbers sound attractive or prohibitive, but
> there you go!

Thanks for the help, Stephen. That sounds reasonable and attainable. 
Well, if you don't hear from me for awhile, you'll know what I'm up to. ;-)

-uva