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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:07:34PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Hi all,
Inspired by Máirín's activity I've packaged a few fonts which are now
stuck into review:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/Pipeline?action=show#r...
They will probably be the last fonts I'll package since I don't believe
being responsible for too many different packages is healthy (ok I'll
probably finish the Greek Font Society fonts)
If you need help maintaining them, please let me know. I'll try to
review some of the not-yet reviewed, time permitting.
Some notes:
– these are all OTF fonts, so they won't work in apps that can't handle
this format. Some offenders are well-known (
OpenOffice.org in
particular, see
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/QA#known-problems). Go
comment/vote in the various upstream issue trackers if you want this
fixed.
– I didn't package the TrueType variants of the Greek Font Society
fonts: most of the TrueType archives do not include a clear license like
the OTF ones, they're older so I've no idea if they include the whole
last version of the fonts, they declare the same font names and I don't
want to find out how applications will react to the same font in two
different format on-system. I may reconsider if someone convinces the
Greek Font Society to release the same nice archives they did for OTF
fonts, and if the fonts in those archives declare a different font name
(for example GFS Didot TT)
I'll ask about the discrepancy.
– I used the font files most recent timestamp as version since the
fonts all declared a 1.0 version but had obviously been modified
several times
in their lives. Again if someone convinces the Greek Font Society to use
proper versioning I may change this in the future.
This too.
– most fonts have been declared on fontconfig priority 60, which
mean
they may take precendence over other latin fonts if neither DejaVu, nor
Liberation are installed. Nevertheless I didn't just blindly cut and
pasted fontconfig rules, but tried to adapt them to each font.
– I do not intend to group the Greek Font Society fonts in any
particular way. If there is enough user demand I may create a GFS comps
group, but right now I plan to just ship separate fonts files.
Sounds OK to me.
Thanks,
-- Sarantis