fonts March 2012

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Hello!
by Corey Richardson 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Hey there Fonts SIG! I'm interested mainly in packaging fonts. I'm new to Fedora, both as a user and as a contributor, so it might be a bumpy ride ;-). I'm consuming as much documentation as I can about the whole font stack. I've got a few questions: 1. What's the consenus about bitmap fonts? On http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Font_rendering_and_text_layouting I found this: "Nowadays Fedora converges on OpenType (TTF/OTF) fonts in Unicode encoding, and no efforts should be wasted on legacy formats. " Does this mean bitmap fonts should be converted (possibly by hand), or are BDF/PCF fine? (I ask this because some of my favorite fonts are bitmap) 2. What are the most common pitfalls / What should I be aware of as I depart on this journey? 3. Are the fonts listed on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist purely in want of a packeger (i.e. I can get cracking)?

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Re: Hello!
by Dave Crossland 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

On 25 March 2012 12:50, Corey Richardson <corey(a)octayn.net> wrote: > You're thinking point the script at a font > and out comes a spec file/SRPM? I have a feeling that with sfntly, ttx or fontforge-python it would be possible to automate much of the process, using Zenity for the rest :)

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Package Review needed for croscore-fonts
by Parag Nemade 22 Mar '12

22 Mar '12

Hi, I have created a new package review request, croscore-fonts[1]. I will be happy if anyone can help me by reviewing it. In case anyone needs any package review in exchange of this please tell me and I will be happy to review your package. Regards, Parag. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805416

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Supplemental punctuation, specifically half brackets.
by Peter Easthope 15 Mar '12

15 Mar '12

Hi, I have an OLPC XO-1.5 with Fedora remix, Build 883, 11.3.0. Half brackets are not rendered in Firefox. Given a suitable font, they should be visible in this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Unicode_chart_Supplemental_Punctuation TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET for example is U+2E22. Fonts containing the half bracket are listed here. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2e22/fontsupport.htm Are these glyphs rendered in any Fedora? Can anyone tell me which Fedora package, if any, contains a font containing half brackets? Once a font containing the half brackets is present, what else is needed to allow Firefox to render them? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. bcc: peter at easthope.ca "http://carnot.yi.org/" "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary"

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default font list for f17
by Akira TAGOH 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

Hi, just ran the script to collect the information for fonts again. I can see some changes in the list for f17. please review it if it's what you are expecting. especially please pay attentions for the fonts which is gray-colored and decorated with bold: Arabic - serif Urdu - serif that would means it may breaks the default font selection when it's installed for other language (it is supposed to be pulled in by other languages). if it's not what expected, it should be limited for the certain languages then. Also that would be a good idea to have the default fonts for: Tibetan (bo) Dzongkha (dz) Thai (th) On those languages, any fonts in "other" section, which would supports that language isn't installed by default. maybe good to think about picking one up from them. http://tagoh.fedorapeople.org/fonts/f17-defaultfonts.html Cheers, -- Akira TAGOH

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Questions about bundled fonts
by Bruno Wolff III 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

I am looking at updating egoboo to 2.8.1 and it includes 5 ttf files that it didn't before (and the one it had been using was dropped). ./basicdat/Bo_Chen.ttf ./basicdat/Squerkle.ttf ./basicdat/Mael.ttf ./basicdat/Egobooish.ttf ./basicdat/Gnomish_digital.ttf How do I check if these are at least free enough not to have to scrub them from the source rpm? If they are free enough to use, what do I need to do to use them in Fedora? Do they need to be in separate subpackages?

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handling of fonts in the langpack plugin
by Bill Nottingham 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

With the introduction of the langpack plugin for yum, we've managed to remove most of the manually-maintained group metadata for i18n/l10n. However, one spot we still have a problem is for fonts. We *could* for any language that's requested, do an install of font(:lang=<whatever>), but that doesn't give us a useful mechanism to prioritize the proper default font. Would it be worth it for the default fonts for a particular locale to Provide: default-font(lang=<foo>)? Maintaining this could be problematic, but we would only need to do this for locales that aren't handled by dejavu or similar latin/greek/etc. fonts. Bill

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[PATCH 0/6] Liberation: more flexible Makefile incl. formats for web
by Jan Pokorný 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi Pravin and list, at sunzi project, we strive to consume external components from their repositories and other native locations. To make it easily possible also with Liberation fonts, I went through the existing Makefile with the aim to add support for exporting into common web formats, making some other changes on my way. In fact, the change I desire is concentrated in the last patch, but I hope the previous ones (split into more patches for easier review) also make sense. The compatibility with releasing workflow as well as with the job of system packagers should be guaranteed. If there is something wrong with the patchset, feel free to bug me on. Otherwise I would be grateful for applying it. P.S. I can go ahead and file a bug (referring to this thread) if it is a preferred channel. Regards, Jan Jan Pokorný (6): Makefile: do not remove file we do not create Fix duplicate README (nested as link to root one) Makefile: add .PHONY target Makefile: add check target using fontlint Makefile: restructure for usability and modularity Makefile: now support other common export formats source/.gitignore | 8 +++ source/Makefile | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- source/README | 83 +--------------------------- source/scripts/fontexport.pe | 22 +++++++ 4 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-) create mode 100644 source/.gitignore mode change 100644 => 120000 source/README create mode 100644 source/scripts/fontexport.pe

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