Re: Replacement suggestions for Century Schoolbook?

[Urs Liska]

Am 23.06.2013 23:14, schrieb Mark Polesky:
> Urs,
>
> I missed the big discussion earlier, but has anyone mentioned FreeSerif?
Not that I recall ...
> http://www.fontspace.com/gnu-freefont/freeserif
> I'm getting some good results with lyrics.  I particularly like that it has all 
> 5
> of the common English ligatures 0xFB00 - 0xFB04 (ff fi fl ffi ffl).  Century
> Schoolbook only has two (ff and fi).
>
> Some or all of these characters may get mangled in the email delivery, but
> here they are:
>
> 0xFB00  ff  (ff)
> 0xFB01  fi  (fi)
> 0xFB02  fl  (fl)
> 0xFB03  ffi  (ffi)
> 0xFB04  ffl  (ffl)
>
>
> test sentence with ligatures:
> office flight raffle, final offer
>
>
> test sentence, spelled out completely:
> office flight raffle, final offer
I just could only look at the samples on the page you linked, but it 
looks quite good and usable.
I will definitely do some tests.
Thanks for the hint.

> TeXGyreSchola has good ligature support, too:
>
> http://www.fontspace.com/gust-e-foundry/texgyreschola
I think I actually tested it then, and its main problem is the same as 
with LilyPond's Century: it's just too wide.
So no improvement in the sense of my original post.

Urs
> But I prefer the look of FreeSerif.
>
> - Mark