[Therion] Change default PDF output font

[Martin Budaj]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 3:17 PM Wookey <wookey at wookware.org> wrote:

> On 2023-09-05 23:15 +1200, Paul Rowe wrote:
> >    This will be really handy as our Māori alphabet includes accented
> >    characters unavailable in the default non-Unicode set.
>
> Maybe the default therion font should be set to a unicode one so it
> works for more people/languages/countries? That seems sensible at this
> point.  Pretty-much everyone should have unicode fonts avaiable and
> working, shouldn't they?
>

We would need to ship such a font with therion to ensure that the default
font is found.

But the real issue is that using TTF or OTF fonts is much slower, as
therion converts them on the fly to a set of PFB fonts (each font
containing at most 256 characters) because MetaPost can't use unicode fonts.

Martin
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