fonts July 2008

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Debian's working on a font tarball template - please check and comment
by Nicolas Mailhot 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

-------- Message transféré -------- De: Nicolas Spalinger À: OFLB > The note maybe but zipping font files with a detached .TXT file is good > practice and should be promoted. Indeed. 100% agreed :-) I'd also highly recommend a file in the release tarball describing the chosen licensing and some kind of readme/changelog. Actually that's why the OFL is promoting the concept of a FONTLOG and provides a template. BTW, here's a proposed VCS branch and tarball template for an open font: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/foo-open-font-sources/?rev=0&sc=0 Your feedback very welcome, Cheers, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Fonts packaging amendment
by Nicolas Mailhot 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi, I'm proposing the following amendment: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Packaging_font_bundles to our fonts packaging policy: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FontsPolicy (official page, broken by the wiki migration) http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_packaging_policy (unofficial cleaned-up font page ; I hope someone will the right accesses picks it up) Nothing earth-shattering, just a write-up of our current unwritten rules Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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[Fwd: Re: GNU Unifont update]
by Nicolas Mailhot 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

[FWD because Paul Hardy forrgot to subscribe] I just finished the glyphs and posted them at http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html on 20 June 2008. I then took a vacation I had planned for a long time. I was trying to get something in releasable form before my vacation, but it didn't happen. I intend to package all the sources used to build the GNU Unifont: my software, plus software that Roman Czyborra wrote originally, plus software that Luis Gonzalez Miranda wrote to convert the .hex font into a TrueType font with my modifications, in one source tree with make files and man pages. I've been wrapping this up behind the scenes and expect to finish this weekend. I would like to go through the Fedora release process, starting with just the font and then adding the whole source tree to build the font. Qianqian Fang will be able to guide me through this process (and I've been in frequent contact with him while adding the missing CJK glyphs), but review by anyone else of course would be welcome. If anyone would like updates on this, you can email me at unifoundry(a)unifoundry.com and I'll keep you posted on the latest developments. Thanks for your interest! Paul Hardy Le Mer 2 juillet 2008 10:59, Debarshi Ray a écrit : > >>>> The maintaining expense for both packages is not that much though. >>>> I would be glad to maintain GNU Unifont, or show Paul how to do >>>> that >>>> if he wants. The spec files for both packages can be almost >>>> identical. >>> >>> Do you still want to do this? :) >>> It would be nice to have Unifont in Fedora. >> >> Or more generaly to have more fonts in Fedora. It's been ages since >> anyone but the usual suspects packaged a new font in Fedora (and a >> fixed team does not scale) > > Is someone already doing this? If not, then I am interested. If yes, > then I can help with the review. There are lots of unclaimed fonts on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist If you have the time and interest please do not block on Unifont. Our packaging wishlist has other elements. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Re: GNU Unifont update
by Nicolas Mailhot 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Le Mer 2 juillet 2008 10:59, Debarshi Ray a écrit : > >>>> The maintaining expense for both packages is not that much though. >>>> I would be glad to maintain GNU Unifont, or show Paul how to do >>>> that >>>> if he wants. The spec files for both packages can be almost >>>> identical. >>> >>> Do you still want to do this? :) >>> It would be nice to have Unifont in Fedora. >> >> Or more generaly to have more fonts in Fedora. It's been ages since >> anyone but the usual suspects packaged a new font in Fedora (and a >> fixed team does not scale) > > Is someone already doing this? If not, then I am interested. If yes, > then I can help with the review. There are lots of unclaimed fonts on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist If you have the time and interest please do not block on Unifont. Our packaging wishlist has other elements. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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GNU Unifont update
by Qianqian Fang 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

I think this will probably be interesting to the people in this list. With the blessing from Roman Czyborra, the former maintainer of GNU Unifont, Paul Hardy, a volunteer developer from CA, is now officially maintaining this widely used dual-width bitmap font. In the past couple months, Paul devoted tremendous of efforts toward the goal of complete BMP coverage of Unifont. In the meantime, we had extensive collaboration and ported all our latest creation of Hanzi glyphs, including the Unicode 5.1 additions, from WenQuanYi's fonts to GNU Unifont. Paul told me that he is very close to make a release, perhaps a few thousands glyphs away from a complete BMP font. His website and the latest fonts can be found from here: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html It would be nice to see this extensively updated GNU Unifont pushed through all branches for Fedora. I will keep you posted or send Paul directly here to announce his release. Qianqian

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