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Linux Libertine version 2.8.14 released
Our project is proud to announce the 2.8.14 version of our open source font Linux Libertine. Recent changes are: - TTF-Hinting improvements because of better TTF-Instruction of FontForge - some small kerning improvements - glyphs U+02BE and U+02BF are no combining charakters > corrected - kerning problem with 9 in italic corrected - some small corrections as usual - slavonic church signs added - Added cartouches for numbers between 0 and 99 at uniE128 till uniE12A - Change punctuationspace to width of fullstop (.) It is now 450 of width and not 350. New is furthermore our XeTex tutorial which will enable all typografy gourmets to make use of Libertine's comprehensive OpenType-features. You will find the tutorial at: http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/XeTex/Libertine-XeT... Please visit our homepage for further information at: http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net Thanks! Philipp Poll Libertine Open Fonts Project - http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net Appendix Press: - Bruce Byfield (2006): "Linux Libertine Open Fonts offers free Times Roman alternative", http://www.linux.com/articles/56565 - Forrest Cook / LWN (2008): "The Linux Libertine Open Fonts Project", http://lwn.net/Articles/263610/ - Hans-Joachim Baader / Pro-Linux (2008): Libertine Open Fonts in Version 2.7.9", http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12157.html - Meerbusch (2007): Bahn frei für das große Eszett", http://rhein-zeitung.de/on/07/10/05/service/computer/tipp... Wikipedia: English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine Deutsch: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine Italiano: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Libertine _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=0... (Log in to post comments)
Warning vs. Firefox Posted Jun 26, 2008 3:22 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Fair warning, installing this version appears to cause Firefox 3.0 to crash, at least on Debian. This may be a result of newly tickling an existing bug in libpango. See Debian bugs #487979 and #488015, and thank Sven Joachim for reporting them so diligently.Working around this bug, by using Vera until I discovered which library to downgrade, reminded me of how much better the Libertine fonts look than anything else we have available.
Warning vs. Firefox Posted Jul 2, 2008 3:24 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Update: a fixed version of libpango, compatible with Libertine 2.8.14, was posted June 30 by Gnome, and released by Debian as pango1.0-0_1.20.4-1.
Ligatures Posted Jun 26, 2008 4:55 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Can someone please suggest how I can get archaic ligatures (collected as "hlig" and "dlig") such as looped "sc" and "st" to display by default in Firefox, in addition to regular ligatures such as "fi" (grouped in "liga")? Also, I see on the Libertine page that they consider it a bug that pango displays "fi" as a ligature by default. I don't get why. It seems to me like a good default. Is the bug really that pango doesn't offer the calling program a choice? Finally, here's a big thank-you to Phil and his collaborators for the best-looking typefaces on my machine.
Ligatures Posted Jun 26, 2008 8:49 UTC (Thu) by cantsin (subscriber, #4420) [Link] Ligatures should never be set as a default because, in professional typography and correct spelling, they must not be used in compound words when each of the two letters belongs to a different word the compound consists of. "Offline" and "selfless", for example, must not be typeset with "fl" ligatures.
Ligatures Posted Jun 30, 2008 20:01 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Seems to me the solution is to apply ligatures by default, but to insert a "no-space space" into affected compound words. The list of compound words affected can't be very long. The rendering library itself ought to look up the words. Really, clients of a rendering library are generally in no position to make this kind of decision.
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