[Bug 477374] [culmus-fonts] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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--- Comment #8 from Oron Peled <oron at actcom.co.il>  2009-02-18 18:13:33 EDT ---
 * Someone called my name ;-) [yes, I'm the slow Hebrew l10n coordinator]
 * Historically the Culmus project distributed its fonts as:
   - Culmus (the regular fonts you just re-packaged)
   - Culmus fancy fonts. Extra free fonts. They are currently
     still packaged as: fonts-hebrew-fancy-0.20051122-4.fc10.noarch
   - Lately they added a third category -- Ancient fonts (for ancient
     Semitic scripts).
   All these are linked from: http://culmus.sourceforge.net/
   [it's a bit confusing as the normal "Download" links of sourceforge
    only lead you to the "regular" Culmus fonts]

 * Some of the fancy fonts are unique. E.g: the "Ktav-Yad" is the only
   free "hand-writing" font in Hebrew.

 * As for naming:
   - For consistency to end users, i think the fonts in the "fancy"
     category should be named just like the other Culmus fonts.
     Example: culmus-ktav-yad-fonts
     and not: culmus-fancy-ktav-yad-fonts.
     [the split to "fancy" was done for economy (bandwidth) reasons
      not really functional ones].

   - Of course we can group the "fancy" ones via a meta-package that
     requires each of them. But I don't think it worth the trouble
     and it may confuse people to think it's yet another font from
     this collection.

   - We can add the "Ancient" ones in this go (if you have time for this)
     But IMO their name should contain "ancient", as they actually
     represent different scripts). E.g:
        culmus-ancient-hebrew-paleo-gezer-fonts
     What? this is getting too much. Maybe settle for:
        ancient-hebrew-paleo-gezer-fonts

 * For any help/rants etc., just mail me (on
   http://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages/he
   you can see my email as my bugzilla account.

Thanks,

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