[tei-council] Jenkins builder script now working

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at oucs.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jun 14 11:48:27 EDT 2012


On 14 Jun 2012, at 16:32, Martin Holmes wrote:
> 
> Currently, the font family only comes in Libertine Serif, which like most all alternative serifs is designed to emulate Times New Roman.
> 
yes, it seems to be more or less metric compatible
...
> 
> Poll recommends Libertine primarily for print work, and says other Linux fonts such as Deja Vu Serif work better for screen displays. 

it is a moot question as to whether our PDF is designed for screen or print.

> <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.

isdry-pro:public rahtz$ grep -i missing ~/TEI/Sourceforge/trunk/P5/Guidelines.log  | sort -u

Missing character: There is no ƿ in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no ȝ in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 三 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 可 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 外 in font Linux Libertine O/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 孔 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 字 in font Linux Libertine O/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 小 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 欄 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 沢 in font Linux Libertine O/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 淳 in font Linux Libertine O/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 的 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 藤 in font Linux Libertine O/ICU!
Missing character: There is no 見 in font DejaVu Sans Mono/ICU!

but now one has to find the damned things. the SansMono characters are in examples, the Libertine
ones in normal prose

> 
> I think Libertine is a lovely font, actually.
> 
if its a copy of Times, that hardly seems possible :-}

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