10x20: Process more fully.

Provide a hand-edited good/10x20.sfd, generated using fontforge from
bad/6x13.sfd, which adjusts more than just ` '.

Specifically: provide a single new hand-drawn shape for the comma and
both single quotes; increase the weight of the full stop; adjust the
colon and semicolon to match.

Justifications for the changes:

 - Our primary goal is matched quotes, so at least the single quote
   (which in post-2000 10x20 is vertical) needs changing.

 - The quote glyphs in the pre-2000 10x20 are rather poor, when used
   in a matched pair.  They are rather more slanted and rather less
   tall than seems usual for quotes.  Using these for quotes results
   in an (IMO) odd appearance for quoted strings.

 - 10x20 is very like 6x13 in overall style but pre-2000 6x13 quotes
   have a rather different (and IMO better) look.

 - The comma should have the same shape as the quotes, like in 6x13.
   But in pre-2000 10x20, the comma and the single quotes have
   different shapes.

 - The pre-2000 comma is very similar to the full stop.  This makes
   them hard to distinguish at high DPI.

 - The colon and semicolon should contain exactly a full stop and a
   comma; but the pre-2000 colon and semicolon's lower marks are
   raised compared to the corresponding standalone mark.  Again, this
   is not much like 6x13.

 - The weight of the pre-2000 10x20 full stop and colon are anomalous:
   in general the weight of 10x20 is similar to that of 6x13 scaled up
   (eg, the 10x20 A has 54 pixels out of 200, 27%, compared to the
   6x13 A which has 20 pixels out of 78, 26%).  The 6x13 stop is 5
   pixels (6.4%) but the pre-2000 10x20 stop is 6 pixels (3.0%).  We
   compromise by increasing it to 9 pixels (4.5%).

Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8fb263c21f17c954249423afe8d5f035c30b5102..62d3f8714b50a5884f0a824c118d7ba83c3d3478 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 xfonts-traditional (1.7.2~~iwj) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
 
   Additional fonts:
-  * Process `10x20' too.  (It was shifted down a pixel during the
-    conversion; we don't undo this, yet.  So far, we just fix the quotes.)
+  * Process `10x20' too.
   * Process Neep 6x13 and 10x20 too (for apostrophe only).
 
   Packaging improvements:

diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
index f30a76794644c40b5df6a2c6589f335de5a2e66a..a9185410e89f56fb11dc07d4fa1880512a89dd56 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/copyright
+++ b/debian/copyright
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ xfonts-base 3.3.6-2.  Mark Wooding created the `good' version of this font by
 hand-editing the `bad' version.  The edited version, like the original, is in
 the public domain.
 
-good/neep-alt-iso8859-1-*.sfd were modified from the corresponding
-bad/*.pcf.gz by Ian Jackson using fontforge and are under the same
-licence as the .pcf.gz.
+good/neep-alt-iso8859-1-*.sfd and good/10x20.sfd were modified from
+the corresponding bad/*.pcf.gz by Ian Jackson using fontforge and are
+under the same licence as the .pcf.gz.
 
 The copyright files for the font packages follow.
 

diff --git a/good/10x20.pcf.gz b/good/10x20.pcf.gz
deleted file mode 100644 (file)
index cd1b2d4..0000000
Binary files a/good/10x20.pcf.gz and /dev/null differ

diff --git a/own/10x20.sfd b/good/10x20.sfd
similarity index 100%
rename from own/10x20.sfd
rename to good/10x20.sfd

diff --git a/specs b/specs
index de3a211b83bf022224f2d41e82aff504c524578a..81c1c257a2b505d970e931302e192d0e22d5a835 100644 (file)
--- a/specs
+++ b/specs
@@ -43,18 +43,6 @@ entire                       '
 
 pcf                    10x20
 rules                  Trad
-
-verbatim       if ($props{' 7bit'}) {
-# below was generated by
-#   entire                     ` '
-# and then edited to shift the replacement characters down like
-# the rest of the font (!)
-verbatim               s/^0000;0000;0000;1800;0C00;0600;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000$/0000;0000;0000;3C00;1C00;0600;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000/; # `
-verbatim               s/^0000;0000;0000;0C00;0C00;0C00;0C00;0800;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000$/0000;0000;0000;0F00;0E00;1800;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000;0000/; # '
-verbatim       }
-
-# pcf                  10x20 ours
-# rules                        Iwj
-# entire               ` ' : ; . ,
+entire                 ` ' : ; . ,
 
 endrules