In article <3d8da7eb@news.povray.org> , "Timothy R. Cook" 
<tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> Next question: how do I do that?

Well, I suppose most font editors that support both TTC and TTF files should
be able to do it.  I don't know any font editors for Windows however, so I
cannot help you picking one ;-)

    Thorsten

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In article <3d8da958$1@news.povray.org> , "Timothy R. Cook" 
<tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> Oh shoot, I just realised something: I'd have to specify the proper font
> for each of the titles, depending on english or japanese...and if
> japanese, I'd sometimes have to specify several fonts, depending on
> character...oyyyy funness.

Not really.  All you would need is one font which all the characters in it.
The problem is that few fonts come with characters for many different
languages (also it is possible), because seldom a person needs characters of
more than one language (or language family, like all using the Latin
alphabet) in a font and having many different languages, i.e. Japanese and
Chinese in there would create a very huge font file.

The trick why it works in your operating system / word processor is that
they always will attempt to pick a font that does have characters for that
language.  This is not a choice POV-Ray can make :-(

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Not really.  All you would need is one font which all the characters in it.

Guess I could use the font editor I have to compile just the characters
I need...(nice little shareware called 'Font Creation Program'...I hope
it reads TTCs)

> The problem is that few fonts come with characters for many different
> languages (also it is possible), because seldom a person needs characters of
> more than one language (or language family, like all using the Latin
> alphabet) in a font and having many different languages, i.e. Japanese and
> Chinese in there would create a very huge font file.

hmm, msgothic and msmincho are both over 8 MB TTCs...'batang' is 15.7 mb
...whew

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Timothy R. Cook wrote:
> Guess I could use the font editor I have to compile just the characters
> I need...(nice little shareware called 'Font Creation Program'...I hope
> it reads TTCs)

Darn, it doesn't.  Hmmm...

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Timothy R. Cook wrote:
> Darn, it doesn't.  Hmmm...

Wow, simhei.ttf ...9.8 megs, and it's a single ttf.  maybe this'll work
...
SUGOI!!!! sugoisugoisugoi!  It even works inside of Moray, with the 
\uNNNN!  hahaha this is cool

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In article <3d8db0bf$1@news.povray.org> , "Timothy R. Cook" 
<tim### [at] scifi-fantasycom> wrote:

> hmm, msgothic and msmincho are both over 8 MB TTCs...'batang' is 15.7 mb
> ...whew

Exactly.  And they could be several times the size if they contained only
all the 65535 UCS2 characters supported by POV-Ray.  And even then it would
only be a subset of all Unicode characters (TTF fonts don't support more)...

    Thorsten

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