[tei-council] Jenkins builder script now working

[Martin Holmes]

On 12-06-14 01:37 AM, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>
> On 14 Jun 2012, at 01:08, Martin Holmes wrote:
>
>>
>> Good tip, and very revealing: it shows the following font families:
>>
>> DejaVu (free)
>> Kochi-mincho (free)
>> Hannom (free)
>> Junicode (free)
>> UMingCN (free)
>>
>> and
>>
>> Times New Roman (NOT free)
>>
>
> changing the main body font of the Guidelines is something that should perhaps not be undertaken
> lightly.

Definitely not, but that doesn't mean it's not worth trying.

> what do people suggest we use instead?

Your suggestion of Libertine below was my initial thought too. The first 
stage is to find out whether it covers all the ranges we're using Times 
New Roman for in the Glines, and it does look promising:

"Developed as an open-source collaborative project, the Libertine serif 
has won some notice after being chosen for the Wikipedia logo (for which 
the foundry designed the emblematic "crossed W").

Currently, the font family only comes in Libertine Serif, which like 
most all alternative serifs is designed to emulate Times New Roman.

Libertine has a glyph base of over 2000 characters, meaning that it has 
its own Western, Greek, Cyrillic, IPA, and special characters along with 
the usual letter/number inclusions.

It comes with italic, bold, bold italic, and small-caps varieties...

Libertine is designed as a general-purpose print font, as opposed to 
Times and Times New Roman; font designer Philipp Poll says both the 
older fonts have limitations that his Libertine does not have.

Poll recommends Libertine primarily for print work, and says other Linux 
fonts such as Deja Vu Serif work better for screen displays. Bold and 
small-caps varieties are available, and, Poll says, a sans-serif version 
of Libertine is in the works."

<http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/a-web-designers-guide-to-linux-fonts/>

One approach would be to get a distinct list of all the characters in 
the Glines which are rendered using Times New Roman, and check them 
against what's in Libertine. That would be relatively straightforward 
for me if the PDFs were being created with XSL:FO, but LaTeX is a 
mystery to me.

> I am of course suspicious of the open source gnu-ish alternative fonts, as they often
> seem to be designed by computer scientists who think xkcd and michelangelo
> are more or less the same quality. But hey, whatever makes folks happy :-}

I think Libertine is a lovely font, actually.

Cheers,
Martin

> Linux Libertine seems to be the obvious alternative
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