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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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Update Information:
Greek Font Society OTF fonts
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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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