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bug #24993: U+03C2 "Greek small letter final sigma" not slanted in Free Sans Oblique

Submitted by:  Christos Georgiou <tzot>
Submitted on:  Wed 03 Dec 2008 12:43:17 AM UTC  
 
Category: individual character(s)Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: glyph(s) incorrectStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Steve White <Stevan_White>
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 2008-09-12

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Mon 08 Dec 2008 10:07:28 AM UTC, comment #2:

Great, thanks. I am not "officially" qualified for font designing, but I can agree with you on the apparent "cobbling together" of the Greek range.

I can and will add suggestions to improve things based on my knowledge of Greek glyphs, and then you can decide whether my suggestions sound ok or not.

I can even suggest patches directly for the font file, however I have no experience at all about hints; I don't even know if that is important for fontforge usage.

Christos Georgiou <tzot>
Mon 08 Dec 2008 09:54:47 AM UTC, comment #1:

Right. Fixed, in CVS.

This one looks like a simple oversight...but frankly, I doubt the paternity of the whole Greek range. (Well, some of the letters outside the simple alphabet were drawn by me, but I think the whole range shows signs of being cobbled together.)

Steve White <Stevan_White>
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Wed 03 Dec 2008 12:43:17 AM UTC, original submission:

As the title says, the glyph of "ς" in Free Sans Oblique is exactly the same with the one in Free Sans. It stands out among the other characters, which are slanted.

The issue appears in Windows XP SP2, and on Gentoo Linux using Python Imaging Library (which uses freetype2) to render text on bitmaps.

Christos Georgiou <tzot>

 

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file #16973:  final_sigma.png added by tzot (1KiB - image/png - check the final letter in roman and oblique versions of the word)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Fri 26 Dec 2008 11:16:07 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusFix posted=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Mon 08 Dec 2008 09:54:47 AM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusNone=>Fix posted
      Assigned toNone=>Stevan_White
    Wed 03 Dec 2008 12:43:17 AM UTCtzotAttached File-=>Added final_sigma.png, #16973

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