[Bug 477433] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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Hans Ulrich Niedermann <rhbugs at n-dimensional.de> changed:

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--- Comment #8 from Hans Ulrich Niedermann <rhbugs at n-dimensional.de>  2009-01-11 19:58:47 EDT ---
Well... this is what I have found out.

The ntedfont.pfa file appears (according to kfontview) to contain a number of
special symbols for typesetting music, and a set of numbers.

I know of no tool to find out whether these symbols conform to any special
unicode, or other encoding, or whether this is just a symbol font which maps
the codes of some normal characters to the shapes of some special symbols.

In any case, it appears to be designed just for use within the nted
application.

Now, I can install the ntedfont.pfa file into the new place required by the new
font policy, and symlink it to the old location so that nted can find it. The
ntedfont.pfa file will be shipped in its own separate subpackage nted-fonts,
which nted will now require. That is no problem.

However, I'm not quite getting what to use as fontconfig file here:

a) "ruleset numeral prefix" only talks about fonts of characters, not of
special symbols.
b) those special symbols fit into neither of the "sans-serif, serif, monospace,
fantasy or cursive" standard families

Where can I find more information about the suitable prefix and the family?

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