Fedora 7 Update: gfs-complutum-fonts-20070413-3.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-complutum-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070413
Release : 3.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces16th.html
Summary : GFS Complutum Greek font
Description :
The ancient Greek alphabet evolved during the millenium of the Byzantine era
from majuscule to minuscule form and gradually incorporated a wide array of
ligatures, flourishes and other decorative nuances which defined its
extravagant cursive character. Until the late 15th century, typographers who
had to deal with Greek text avoided emulating this complicated hand; instead
they would use only the twenty four letters of the alphabet separately, often
without accents and other diacritics.
A celebrated example is the type cut and cast for the typesetting of the New
Testament in the so-called Complutensian Polyglot Bible (1512), edited by the
Greek scholar, Demetrios Doukas. The type was cut by Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar
and the whole edition was a commision by cardinal Francisco Ximénez, in the
University of Alcalá (Complutum), Spain. It is one of the best and most
representative models of this early tradition in Greek typography which was
revived in the early 20th century by the eminent bibliographer of the British
Library, Richard Proctor. A font named Otter Greek was cut in 1903 and a book
was printed using the new type. The original type had no capitals so Proctor
added his own, which were rather large and ill-fitted. The early death of
Proctor, the big size of the font and the different aesthetic notions of the
time were the reasons that Otter Greek was destined to oblivion, as a
curiosity.
Greek Font Society incorporated Brocar's famous and distinctive type in the
commemorative edition of Pindar's Odes for the Athens Olympics (2004) and the
type with a new set of capitals, revived digitaly by George D. Matthiopoulos,
is now available for general use.
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Updated packages:
d267b8ce20cf67218508287e2f13ae940ad605ed gfs-complutum-fonts-20070413-3.fc7.noarch.rpm
e307dc4de23d317ba31830c6bfff58a1d93f8099 gfs-complutum-fonts-20070413-3.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-complutum-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-porson-fonts-20060908-3.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-porson-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20060908
Release : 3.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces19th.html
Summary : GFS Porson Greek font
Description :
In England, during the 1790’s, Cambridge University Press decided to procure a
new set of Greek types. The university’s great scholar of Classics, Richard
Porson was asked to produce a typeface based on his handsome handwriting and
Richard Austin was commissioned to cut the types. The type was completed in
1808, after the untimely death of Porson the previous year. Its success was
immediate and since then the classical editions in Great Britain and the
U.S.A. use it, almost invariably.
In 1913, Monotype released the typeface with some corrections, notably
replacing the upright capitals suggested by Porson with inclined ones. In
Greece the typeface was used under the name Pelasgika type.
GFS Porson is based on the Monotype version, though using upright capitals, as
in the original.
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Updated packages:
cd4c4f6dd37b80d611ba7364e06a329dce23b10c gfs-porson-fonts-20060908-3.fc7.noarch.rpm
ac473f4a6528183453716bf7f652bb65bf2d9595 gfs-porson-fonts-20060908-3.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-porson-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-theokritos-fonts-20070415-2.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-theokritos-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070415
Release : 2.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
Summary : GFS Theokritos decorative font
Description :
Yannis Kefallinos (1894–1958) was one of the most innovative engravers of his
generation and the first who researched methodicaly the aesthetics of book and
typographic design in Greece. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Athens and
established the first book design workshop from which many practising artists
of the 60's and 70's had graduated.
In the late 50's Kefallinos designed and published an exquisite book with
engraved illustrations of the ancient white funerary pottery in Attica in
collaboration with Varlamos, Montesanto, Damianakis. For the text of
Kefallinos' Δέκα λευκαί λήκυθοι (1956) the artist used a typeface which he
himself had designed a few years before for an unrealised edition of
Theocritos' Idyls. Its complex and heavily decorative design does point to
aesthetic codes which preoccupied his artistic expression and, although
impractical for contemporary text setting, it remains an original display
face, or it can be used as initials.
The book design workshop of the Fine Arts School of Athens has been recently
reorganised, under the direction of professor Leoni Vidali, and with her
collaboration George D. Matthiopoulos has redesigned digitaly this historical
font which is now available as GFS Theokritos.
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Updated packages:
ef03c84d3a1123c0b81f846904a2103db0153a3e gfs-theokritos-fonts-20070415-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
5d3a801404c8d18dcea3259eddacdeda19f8d9db gfs-theokritos-fonts-20070415-2.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-theokritos-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-olga-fonts-20060908-1.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-olga-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20060908
Release : 1.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
Summary : GFS Olga experimental oblique Greek font
Description :
In Greece the terms italic and oblique have the same meaning since they are
borrowed from the latin typographic practice without any real historical
equivalent in Greek history. Until the end of the 19th century Greek typefaces
were cut and cast indepedently, not as members of a typefamily. The
mechanisation of typecutting allowed the transformation of upright Greek
typefaces to oblique designs. Nonetheless, the typesetting practice of a
cursive Greek font to complement an upright one did not survive the 19th
century.
The experimental font GFS Olga (1995) attempts to revive this lost tradition.
The typeface was designed and digitised by George Matthiopoulos, based on the
historical Porson Greek type (1803) with the intention to be the companion of
the upright GFS Didot font whenever there is a need for an italic alternative.
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Updated packages:
a999610fda38198e14772f2ba6ffa0eacc0f5d95 gfs-olga-fonts-20060908-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
7bfa352c9e8e45142addb4d6de6325bde41c7494 gfs-olga-fonts-20060908-1.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-olga-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-artemisia-fonts-20070415-1.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-artemisia-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070415
Release : 1.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
Summary : GFS Artemisia fonts
Description :
The type family GFS Artemisia was designed by the painter-engraver Takis
Katsoulidis and reflects his style and typographic acumen. It is largely his
effort to offer, from a different perspective, a type face which, like Times
Greek, would be applicable to a wide spectrum of uses and equally agreeable and
legible.
The typeface has been digitised by George D. Matthiopoulos.
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Updated packages:
4925f2aa9f94154079d2b231ac0e335f8b7f7252 gfs-artemisia-fonts-20070415-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
48bb0ff81fd8ec3da577f8142812a2ac2cdf72ae gfs-artemisia-fonts-20070415-1.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-artemisia-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-gazis-fonts-20070417-2.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-gazis-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070417
Release : 2.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces18th.html
Summary : GFS Gazis Greek font
Description :
During the whole of the 18th century the old tradition of using Greek types
designed to conform to the Byzantine cursive hand with many ligatures and
abbreviations - as it was originated by Aldus Manutius in Venice and
consolidated by Claude Garamont (Grecs du Roy) - was still much in practice,
although clearly on the wane.
GFS Gazis is a typical German example of this practice as it appeared at the
end of that era in the 1790's. Its name pays tribute to Anthimos Gazis
(1758-1828), one of the most prolific Greek thinkers of the period, who was
responsible for writing, translating and editing numerous books, including the
editorship of the important Greek periodical Ερμής ο Λόγιος (Litterary Hermes)
in Wien.
GFS Gazis has been digitally designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.
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Updated packages:
64667061875a80a2f401a21dd6074da07724b96a gfs-gazis-fonts-20070417-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
988b4dfd45cac97887343620de22f0b6fb72112e gfs-gazis-fonts-20070417-2.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-gazis-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts-20070415-2.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070415
Release : 2.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces18th.html
Summary : GFS Bodoni Classic oblique Greek font
Description :
Giambattista Bodoni was the most prolific Italian typecutter of the 18th
century. While he worked in the Vatican Press he was involved in the
typecutting of “exotic” languages for which catholic literature was printed.
When he established his own press in Parma he did publish many books of the
classics with his own Greek typefaces in the last quarter of the 18th century.
He was among the first European typecutters to move away from the byzantine
cursive tradition with the numerous ligatures which was the norm until then.
His Greek types influenced many subsequent designers, yet they fell in disuse
by the middle of the 19th century.
GFS presented Bodoni's original Greek typeface in the commemorative edition of
Pindar's Olympian Odes (2004), in digital version by George D. Matthiopoulos,
and is now available as free ware for the general public. In the OpenType
features, under ligatures, one may alternately use diphthongs with the accents
placed in between the characters, as Giambattista Bodoni did when setting
greek texts.
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Updated packages:
04054e799d2331807231290646b3ede6f60dfdd1 gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts-20070415-2.fc7.noarch.rpm
6641ec7b11668580540b11b3c21aa93c90781498 gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts-20070415-2.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-neohellenic-fonts-20070415-1.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-neohellenic-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070415
Release : 1.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
Summary : GFS Neohellenic fonts
Description :
The design of new Greek typefaces always followed the growing needs of the
Classical Studies in the major European Universities. Furthermore, by the end
of the 19th century bibliology had become an established section of Historical
Studies, and, as John Bowman commented, the prevailing attitude was that Greek
types should adhere to a lost idealized, yet undefined, greekness of yore.
Especially in Great Britain this tendency remained unchallenged in the first
decades of the 20th century, both by Richard Proctor, curator of the incunabula
section in the British Museum Library and his successor Victor Scholderer.
In 1927, Scholderer, on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Greek
Studies, got involved in choosing and consulting the design and production of a
Greek type called New Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He
chose the revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared
in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop of
Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the only successful
typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of Porson Greek well over a
century before. The type, since to 1930’s, was also well received in Greece,
albeit with a different design for Ksi and Omega.
GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the Athens Archeological
Society with the addition of a new set of epigraphical symbols. Later (2000)
more weights were added (italic, bold and bold italic) as well as a latin
version.
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Updated packages:
0436d27cb1cbb3c7e338d4896b80f97274730b09 gfs-neohellenic-fonts-20070415-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
5aed70fd1468ff3e1d692abd9499b408e5072f71 gfs-neohellenic-fonts-20070415-1.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-neohellenic-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-bodoni-fonts-20070415-1.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-bodoni-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070415
Release : 1.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html
Summary : GFS Bodoni fonts
Description :
Bodoni’s Greek types were the base for the first experimental font by Greek
Font Society, GFS Bodoni (1992-1993), which was designed by Takis Katsoulidis,
and digitised by George Matthiopoulos. The typeface is accompanied by a
matching latin alphabet.
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Updated packages:
9d7dff68e6da57ee1af804978f1fdb939e081702 gfs-bodoni-fonts-20070415-1.fc7.noarch.rpm
da2ef7665b3fff303613588caecd6e07bee8cdfd gfs-bodoni-fonts-20070415-1.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-bodoni-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months
Fedora 7 Update: gfs-baskerville-fonts-20070327-3.fc7
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-3959
2007-11-29 01:46:18.605013
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Name : gfs-baskerville-fonts
Product : Fedora 7
Version : 20070327
Release : 3.fc7
URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces18th.html
Summary : GFS Baskerville Greek font
Description :
John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involed in typography late in his career but
his contribution was significant. He was a successful entrepreneur and
possesed an inquiring mind which he applied to produce many aesthetic and
technical innovations in printing. He invented a new ink formula, a new type
of smooth paper and made various improvements in the printing press. He was
also involved in type design which resulted in a latin typeface which was used
for the edition of Virgil, in 1757. The quality of the type was admired
throughout of Europe and America and was revived with great success in the
early 20th century.
Baskerville was also involved in the design of a Greek typeface which he used
in an edition of the New Testament for Oxford University, in 1763. He adopted
the practice of avoiding the excessive number of ligatures which Alexander
Wilson had started a few years earlier but his Greek types were rather narrow
in proportion and did not win the sympathy of the philologists and other
scholars of his time. They did influence, however, the Greek types of
Giambattista Bodoni. and through him Didot's Greek in Paris.
The typeface has been digitally revived as GFS Baskerville Classic by Sophia
Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos and is now available as part of GFS'
type library.
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Updated packages:
4faef9f554baf4cfc3ebfcecec10ccf1d8fdc2b5 gfs-baskerville-fonts-20070327-3.fc7.noarch.rpm
428223e15a966612bca9e2777159f2d688e8b7d0 gfs-baskerville-fonts-20070327-3.fc7.src.rpm
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update gfs-baskerville-fonts'
at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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16 years, 5 months