Sat 23 Feb 2008 11:59:03 AM UTC, comment #1:
Committed to CVS changes to Sans, Mono, and Serif (but not yet bold and italic) meant to fill the range of HTML 4 Character Entities.
Testing:
See attached file, listing the extra characters required by HTML 4.
Lately, it has become a problem that font engines will find a glyph from a similar font if one is missing from the current one. This is fine for some applications, but for font testing, it's a bitch.
The most certain way to test for existence of characters in Unix is to open an old xterm with the desired font:
xterm -fa FreeSerif -fs 10
But unless it's a monospaced font, it's pretty ugly.
Filled out several typographic spaces in Sans and Mono U+2000, etc.
Mono made Rfraktur
Mono made 'angle'
Mono copied cards suites from FreeSerif and scaled to fit
Sans drew upsilon-hook.
Sans constructed omegapi from omega and a minus
Sans made overline
Sans flat copied cards suites from FreeSerif (are they "sans" enough?... maybe not.)
Sans 'similar' didn't look like other such symbols and was much skinnier
Sans made several symbols to be references to 'similar'
Sans made 'congruent'
Sans made reference to aleph from alephmath
Sans angleleft and angleright brackets just copied from Serif (in which they look too angular)
Sans "subset" is too high and looks like a letter C. Made to be a tad higher than small letter
Sans notin doesn't look like isin. The 'element' 2208 is the height of a large letter.
Fixed this, and used references to better effect.
Sans weierstrass p: copied from Mono (where its style doesn't fit anyway),
and widened the stroke
-------- other notes -----------------
better check Sans 0361
also doubt 223E is right
What is to be done about that?
Serif 2040 tie is low...didn't I fix this?
Sans Rfraktur and Ifraktur are not sans-serif.
Overall, many Sans math symbols are much thinner than seems to fit.
Sans surprises me not all the "equals"-like characters are made from "minus"
Sans "period" is a square. (Don't like the dot operator being a square,
but that would be consistent.)
Serif ceil and floor glyphs are not high enough
(file #15098)
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