Re: Finish Font Birth
by Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 2 février 2009 04:35, Jens Petersen a écrit :
>> - In case that I want to push updates: Can I use the
>> common/cvs-import script again?
>
> Yes, that should work - if not please file a bug.
However please avoid pushing updates to stable releases unless you
have to (initial import is fine, updating anything else than rawhide
every time a comma changes is not)
--
Nicolas Mailhot
15 years, 2 months
Finish Font Birth
by Paul Lange
Hey,
herewith I'm announcing the birth of two new fonts - vollkorn-fonts and
yanone-tagesschrift-fonts - in the fedora universe. I want to thank
anyone who helped me to do this (yes, I'm a bit proud of myself :p)
As usual I have some more questions:
- Comps integration: I'm going to register them only in 'fonts' as
'optional' (not in any xxx-support group because they only provide basic
latin glyphs). When I updated the xml-file I simply upload the changes
via CVS and that it? No need to tell special people about it or file
bugs?
- In case that I want to push updates: Can I use the common/cvs-import
script again? (This would be great because it makes things easy for me)
regards,
Paul
15 years, 2 months
Thank you all for the packaging!
by Nicolas Mailhot
Dear list,
Karsten Wade just published this very nice article on his blog:
http://iquaid.org/2009/02/01/font-rock/
This is a tribute to the group efforts, and all the work you've
contributed to make fonts in Fedora shine. I know that for many of you
it was/is your first package, and how intimidating it is to start when
you have little distribution experience.
We've gone a long way from the negative packaging count of Fedora 7.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_inclusion_history
Thank you all, I'm certain Fedora 11 users will notice the difference!
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Nicolas Mailhot
15 years, 2 months
Re: koji build results
by Ankur Sinha
On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:25 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 01 février 2009 à 18:36 +0530, Ankur Sinha a écrit :
> > hi,
> >
> > I built packages on koji for the fonts..
> >
> > only this one failed :
> >
> > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=1097228name=build.log
> >
> > Says cannot find file.
>
> No, it says it can't read the file, which probably just means that the
> fontforge version in F-9 is too old to build old standard.
>
> “OldStandard-Bold.sfd is not in a known format (or is so badly corrupted
> as to be unreadable)”
>
> Not a huge problem, F-9 is an old release, its users will just have to
> upgrade to F-10 to get your font. It's not worth getting worried about.
>
> PS do not hesitate to post to the list like others, you'll get more and
> better advice this way
>
hi,
Shouldnt cf-bonveno-fonts have also come across this error while
building the f-9 package? That one built perfectly. Just a query.
regards,
Ankur
15 years, 2 months
Lost in translation, part II: Lost in orthographies
by Roozbeh Pournader
I was trying to avoid fontconfig, but it caught me at the end. Trying
to figure out which languages in comps are supported by which font, to
be able to include them in the language group, I compared the list of
languages in F11's comps file with the orthography lists fontconfig
supports.
To my surprise, some were missing/problematic. The list is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/LanguageSupportCriteria/Missing_fontco...
I also found quite a few problems with existing orth files in
fontconfig that I'm working on fixing: http://tinyurl.com/dbk6a8
Since fontconfig support is critical for any language Fedora claims to
support [1], I think we should remove the language groups from comps
file if we don't have a fontconfig orthography file for it. I went and
updated the language criteria page we have here, adding a fontconfig
step:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/LanguageSupportCriteria
For the specific language cases, I went and filed upstream bugs
against fontconfig for all I could find, except for Berber, which is a
bit problematic by nature (language code used is actually for a family
of languages, glibc locales are incomplete, Latin/Tifinagh/Arabic
script division is not along country lines...).
This is a report. I would appreciate help and feedback, especially
your thoughts about fontconfig .orth requirements for claiming
language support in Fedora.
Roozbeh
[1]: Ask fc-list which fonts support Kinyarwanda (rw) by running
"fc-list :lang=rw": it gives you nothing, while in real life, almost
every font on your machine supports it.
15 years, 2 months
