Edward> Is anyone here in contact with the people doing Omega (32-bit full
Edward> Unicode TeX)? They were with Université Laval in Québec when I met
Edward> them at a Unicode conference a few years ago. Although they
Edward> weren't exhibiting, they had samples of a beautiful font for
Edward> Tifinagh, among many others. The plan was to do all of Unicode and
Edward> more.
Edward> They permit use of all of their fonts as part of their freeware
Edward> product, so I assume that they would be happy for us to use them
Edward> and send other users their way. I haven't checked to see whether
Edward> the fonts are in PostScript or Metafont, but I seem to recall that
Edward> there is a Metafont to PostScript translator.
Edward> The URL is <http://www.ens.fr/omega/>
I think the Omega fonts are still Type1 fonts, but Yannis Haralambous did a
marvelous job on them. The Metafont to Type1 translator (done by Dan Berry et
al) was written in Pascal. Several years ago, I heard rumors someone had done
a freely available port to C, but was never able to substantiate it.
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