[Bug 487913] Review Request: culmus-fancy-fonts - Fancy fonts for Hebrew

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Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Nadav Har'El <nyh at math.technion.ac.il> 2012-01-29 06:29:57 EST ---
Hi, I'm curious what has become of this issue. The "culmus fancy" fonts (see
http://culmus.sourceforge.net/fancy/index.html) are Hebrew fonts, that are
fancy in the sense that they are designed for special uses (headings, signs,
etc.) more than general printed text, but are nevertheless very useful for
Hebrew writers, and Fedora should have them. My favorite Culmus font, for
example, which I use is the "Culmus Gan" font, which is part of Culmus's "fancy
fonts", not the Culmus core fonts.

Unfortunately, it appears that since Fedora 11 (which had a single
"fonts-hebrew-fancy" package with all the Culmus fancy fonts), these fonts are
no longer available in Fedora, which is a shame, as these are very nice and
useful free fonts.

In recent Fedora releases, the large many-font packages were replaced by small
single-font packages, and we have now over a dozen culmus-* packages, each with
a single font. It should be relatively straightforward to add more of these
packages, a package for each Culmus fancy font? I think this would be better,
and more fitting current Fedora organization, to have a separate package for
each font, and not a single package for all Clumus Fancy fonts like we had
before Fedora 11.

Who is the current maintainer of the culmus-* packages? Can I be of any help?

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