[Fedora-fonts-list] The Fedora Fonts SIG is open
by Nicolas Mailhot
Dear potential SIG contributor,
You're receiving this message because you're subscribed to one of the
general relevant Fedora mailing lists, or because our awesome
minion-finding powers have detected your interest in fonts and text
rendering/layouting in Fedora, EPEL or OLPC¹.
Last month's consultation showed there was enough possible contributors
and needed work to justify creating a Fedora Fonts Special Interest
Group.
To get the ball rolling I've started seeding a Fonts SIG space in the
Fedora wiki:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts
Recently, the Fedora infrastructure team created us a mailing list to
coordinate SIG activities:
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
In addition to human posts I intend to get it CCed on every font-related
bug in our bugzilla.
That means we have enough infrastructure to open shop, and I hereby
declare the Fonts SIG born.
If you are interested in the Fonts SIG, please:
— read the wiki, and the proposed Fonts SIG charter,
— subscribe to the mailing list,
— let us know there where you want the SIG to evolve
— and what *you* are ready to contribute to make this evolution happen
(in particular only respond to this message on fedora-fonts-list!)
I've created the SIG but we can make it live. It's not a tool to
implement my personal vision². It's not some sort of public to-do list
either.
Stuff will happen because we make it happen. SIG organisation is only
there to help implement our wishes; I've sadly no access to magical
fairies ready to do the work in our stead.
I hope to find many of you on on the Fonts SIG list!
Regards,
¹ ie you already maintain or co-maintain a fonts-related package in
Fedora (fonts, major text layouting library, font tool…), or made the
mistake to ask about fonts on one of the Fedora lists I read
² Visions are for people standing too long under the sun, and there's
been a distinct lack of it here recently
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Nicolas Mailhot
16 years, 6 months
[Fedora-fonts-list] [Bug 221361] [pango] ascii text space and punctuation is narrow for CJK
by Red Hat Bugzilla
Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional
comments should be made in the comments box of this bug report.
Summary: [pango] ascii text space and punctuation is narrow for CJK
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221361
petersen(a)redhat.com changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Summary|[pango] ascii text space too|[pango] ascii text space and
|narrow for Chinese encodings|punctuation is narrow for
| |CJK
------- Additional Comments From petersen(a)redhat.com 2007-10-24 21:59 EST -------
After removing xorg-x11-fonts-Type1, "LANG=zh fc-match Courier"
give the Chinese font, but firefox still seems to do the wrong thing.
Looking closer actually at the ja case I notice now that it is
actually also using a different font (different width glyphs) for space
and punctuation under Japanese. So actually the issue is not specific to
Chinese.
BTW xorg-x11-fonts-Type1 is a mandatory package in the @base-x package group
in comps.
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16 years, 6 months
[Fedora-fonts-list] Re: [Fedora-packaging] Fonts spec template validation
by Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 octobre 2007 13:53, Patrice Dumas a écrit :
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:38:58PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> If anyone on the fonts list object to part of this page or wants
>> something clarified, please speak now
>
> Maybe I am demanding too much, but I would hae liked to have
> explanation on what to do for all of the different fonts, bitmap
> fonts,
> truetype fonts and type1 fonts (latex fonts?). There is nothing about
> /etc/X11/fontpath.d/
> for example.
Well nothing stops anyone from pushing a legacy font template through
the Fonts SIG later (either by extending this one or by writing
another). It's up to the packagers of these legacy fonts to agree in
the SIG on a proposal. Right now no one wrote a legacy fonts template,
so there's nothing to submit to FPC.
Regards,
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Nicolas Mailhot
16 years, 6 months
[Fedora-fonts-list] Re: fontsize in 7.92
by Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 octobre 2007 16:27, Matthew Saltzman a écrit :
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:22 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
>> Please don't misunderstand me, I did not mean "too hard to do ist
>> for
>> "normal users". I just meant that it is not comfortable to change
>> each
>> font one by one if the target is to "just get the desktop fonts
>> smaller
>> (and keep the current ratio)", not that it should not be possible to
>> change each font size individually.
>
> Ah, OK. I apologize for speaking sharply.
>
> But still, small/normal or small/medium/large is too limiting. I
> still
> want the range of point sizes (and I want them to mean real points!).
> I
> usually do set all my fonts to one size, but I would still advocate an
> advanced setting that allows hard-core customizers to change sizes for
> individual fonts if they want.
If you want your opinion to be heard by GNOME developers, you have to
comment on aforementioned GNOME bug
If you want to discuss font or text rendering choices in Fedora,
please use the fonts list
Regards,
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Nicolas Mailhot
16 years, 6 months