은글꼴: 새로운 GPL'd 한글 글꼴

Hi,

This is to inform the Linux community and the open source community
(and distribution builders) of new sets of Korean truetype fonts,
Un-series fonts (GPL'd) made available thanks to UN Koaunghi
(who painstakingly scanned, converted to outlines and hand-hinted
them all) and PARK Won-Kyu. They're originally made as PS fonts
to use with Korean TeX/LaTeX/OmegaLambda (HLaTeX [1]) by UN Koaunghi in
the late 1990's. Recently, PARK Won-kyu converted them to truetype fonts
and added GSUB tables to one of them (UnBatang) for the full support of
Korean script with Korean letters (Hangul Jamos : U+1100).

They're available at the moment at (will be available as well later somewhere
at http://kldp.net/prjects/....)

http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/project/font/GSUB (UnBatang with GSUB)
http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~wkpark/project/font/UnFonts (the rest of the series)

Advantages over Baekmuk fonts (included in most Linux distributions) are:

- they come in 7 families : UnBatang(serif), UnDotum(sans-serif),
UnGungseo(cursive, brush-stroke),
UnPilgi (script), UnShinmun,
UnYetgul (a bit like 'Frankfurt' ? and
old Korean printing style),
UnBom, UnGraphic

- wider character repertoire : covers the fullset of Latin-1 as well
as the full set of
precomposed Hangul syllables, and
Chinese characters in KS X 1001

- three of them come in bold as well as in regular
(no need to tinker with 'artificial bolding')

- one of them (UnBatangOdal) has GSUB tables for pre-1933 orthography
Korean text rendering with Korean letters (Hangul Jamos).

Jungshik

[1]
http://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/fonts/korean/HLaTeX and other CTAN archives)