Fonts package Makefile?

[Dave Crossland]

Hi,

Where can I find a Fedora font SRPM with a makefile, from which I can
make one for Cantarell? :-)

I suppose this will be a FontForge Python script; if there isn't yet
one, I will make one.

Cheers
Dave

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where can I find a Fedora font SRPM with a makefile, from which I can
> make one for Cantarell? :-)
>
> I suppose this will be a FontForge Python script; if there isn't yet
> one, I will make one.

I once wrote the Makefile for building serafettin via fontforge. You
can get it via the SRPM:

$ yumdownloader --source serafettin-cartoon-fonts

or through SVN: http://serafettin.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/serafettin/

Orcan

[Parag Nemade]

Hi Dave,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Dave Crossland  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Where can I find a Fedora font SRPM with a makefile, from which I can
> make one for Cantarell? :-)
>
> I suppose this will be a FontForge Python script; if there isn't yet
> one, I will make one.

You can find another way implemented in
http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/lohit/trunk/generate.pe file. However,
I think Fonts SIG should decide on one single script/Makefile on
generating binary font files from source font files which people
should start using for newer font packages.

Parag.

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 16 août 2010 à 10:54 +0530, Parag N(पराग़) a écrit :
> Hi Dave,
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Dave Crossland  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Where can I find a Fedora font SRPM with a makefile, from which I can
> > make one for Cantarell? :-)
> >
> > I suppose this will be a FontForge Python script; if there isn't yet
> > one, I will make one.
>
> You can find another way implemented in
> http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/lohit/trunk/generate.pe file.

Or the ones used by DejaVu, Liberation, Andrei Panov fonts, etc
http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dejavu/trunk/dejavu-fonts/Makefile
http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=liberation-fonts.git;a=blob_plain;f=source...
https://code.google.com/p/evristika/source/browse/trunk/Makefile
> However,
> I think Fonts SIG should decide on one single script/Makefile on
> generating binary font files from source font files which people
> should start using for newer font packages.

Well, I wouldn't mind merging one Makefile example in
fontpackages-devel, if it was clean and complete enough.
I think the basic requirement is to have the standard build, install,
dist targets, ability to set destdir, ability to set the version in
fonts, and reasonable Makefile syntax (not a script shell with loops
maskerading as makefile, a real Makefile with implicit targets).

The DejaVu Makefile is probably a good point to start from, except its
dual-generation target (lgc and non lgc) has complexified it a bit too
much (BTW the coverage scripts in fontpackages-tools could be used to
replace the ones DejaVu uses).

Regards,

[Paul Flo Williams]

Dave Crossland wrote:
> Where can I find a Fedora font SRPM with a makefile, from which I can
> make one for Cantarell? :-)
>
> I suppose this will be a FontForge Python script; if there isn't yet
> one, I will make one.

If you want a plain makefile that you can invoke at any time to generate
your fonts, then try the attached file. This should be called Makefile;
I've renamed it to get a reasonable MIME type.

The top rule will get FontForge to generate the TTF in the current
directory, regardless of the location of the source (because your sources
are in a subdirectory), and the Foundry name must be set, because scripts
won't read your preferences unless you ask them to, and they wouldn't be
of any use to others anyway!

This uses FontForge's "old" scripting language rather than Python, simply
because that's all I've ever used.