Re: Bunch of new Fonts added to wishlist

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 26 novembre 2007 15:25, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit :
> As you saw already, these are packaged as mgopen-fonts.  The mgopen
> project, however, does not seem to be making any progress beyond the
> first release of the fonts.

Same thing as what happened to Vera. The various people wanting to
make the fonts evolve need to agree on a new FLOSS upstream like it
happened to DejaVu. IMHO we should not package all the MGOpen
derivatives before a clear new upstream emerges.
> > GFS Didot
> > GFS Bodoni
> > GFS Neohellenic
> > GFS Artemisia
> > GFS Theokritos
> > GFS Olga
> > GFS Didot Classic
> > GFS Porson
> > GFS Baskerville
> > GFS Bodoni Classic
> > GFS Gazis
> > GFS Solomos
> > GFS Porson
> > GFS Complutum
>
> I plan to package the above some time if noone beats me to it.

Already done but now the packages await review (half of them at least).
> When the
> tetex->TeXLive dust settles, I plan to also package the TeX-related
> bindings.

If you know tex please do Computer Modern Unicode - he's stuck waiting
for someone that understands tex to write a specfile that allows
building it from Fedora TEX in Fedora fontforge.
> A side question:  Does anyone have experience about packaging the same
> font both for X11 and TeX?  Do I need to include the same font files
> twice?  Create soft/hard links for efficiency?  Require one (X11) for
> the other (TeX)?

As I already answered bitmap and core X11 fonts users : the wiki is
open for new guidelines, as long as they respect our general packaging
policy
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Packaging/Policy

Regards,

Bunch of new Fonts added to wishlist

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 26 novembre 2007 à 16:03 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> Le Lun 26 novembre 2007 15:25, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit :
> > > GFS Didot
> > > GFS Bodoni
> > > GFS Neohellenic 
> > > GFS Artemisia 
> > > GFS Theokritos
> > > GFS Olga
> > > GFS Didot Classic
> > > GFS Porson
> > > GFS Baskerville
> > > GFS Bodoni Classic
> > > GFS Gazis
> > > GFS Solomos 
> > > GFS Complutum
> >
> > I plan to package the above some time if noone beats me to it.
>
> Already done but now the packages await review (half of them at least).

And now the fonts have been reviewed, approved, built and pushed to
Fedora repositories. That's the first set of post-SIG font packages
created in a cooperative way, with 
a. the request first posted by a L10N group on 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N
b. formalised by Máirín in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/Pipeline/WishList
c. packaged by me following the guidelines FPC approved last week
d. reviewed by Parag (despite a rpmlint bug that will hopefully be fixed
soon https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=399871)

Thanks a lot everyone, that's 13 good fonts less to package, I hope
we'll see many more in the next months

Regards,