Request to change official Khmer font on Fedora
by Somvannda Kong
Hi everyone,
My name is Somvannda, I am from Cambodia, and I am a new Fedora Ambassador
for Cambodia.
Well, I noticed that the official Khmer font come within the Fedora was not
a good one, since it does not give an easy-to-read for user and the font
size is also big. I would like to make a request to change the official
font from Khmer OS to Hanuman in the next release. You can find the font
here https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Hanuman. You can also see the
statistic that lots of Khmer people are like using this font right now.
Please let me know if you have any question!
Kindly regards,
Somvannda
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9 years, 7 months
[Announce] Liberation fonts version 2 now available on github as well
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com
Hi All,
Liberation is very special fonts in opensource world. It has served
open source communities for more that 7 years. It has got an excellent user
base.
We released liberation 2.0 two years back. Though we reverted this
change in Fedora due to mismatch of hinting bytecode with liberation1.
Liberation 2 is actively used with Libreoffice for last 2+ years, since it
has got a better character coverage.
Recently i had conversation with Wikimedia developer Ryan Kaldari
where he mentioned "We evaluated numerous fonts and Liberation Sans had the
highest overall score of all the FOSS sans-serif fonts we evaluated."
There was an issues [1] with positioning of accent marks which we have
fixed. After it i believe Wikipedia is also now using Liberation fonts from
bug. [2]
For better collaboration for upcoming development of liberation 2, we
have now made it available on github. [3] Existing fedorahosted git will be
still there but i will mostly use it only for liberation 1.07 and
liberation 2.0 development will happen on github and i will just sync
fedorahosted git with github periodically.
Regards,
Pravin Satpute
1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072095
2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1084228
3. https://github.com/pravins/liberation-fonts
4. http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/liberation-fonts.git
9 years, 7 months
Fontconfig questions
by Julien Enselme
Hi,
While packaging SimpleCV (#1070946), we found some included fonts that
are not yet available in Fedora. I am now on the process of packaging
them. I am currently focussing on Astloch font. Here is the fontconfig
file I created for review. I am not sure about the prefix. I guess that
61 is OK.
Bugzilla ticket: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1081782
Filename: 61-astloch-fonts.conf
File content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>Astloch</family>
<prefer>
<family>monospace</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
I also guess that I must create a wiki page about the font but I haven't
found any particular instructions in the wiki. Maybe a copy/paste +
adaptation of an existing page is OK?
Regards,
Julien Enselme
9 years, 7 months
