[gfs-baskerville-fonts] Add metainfo file

Parag Nemade pnemade at fedoraproject.org
Fri Oct 17 05:24:16 UTC 2014


commit 78026c4e6822041b128d8d9390f19e9a9658b837
Author: Parag Nemade <pnemade at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 17 10:49:24 2014 +0530

    Add metainfo file

 gfs-baskerville.metainfo.xml |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- Copyright 2014 Parag Nemade <pnemade AT redhat DOT com> -->
+<component type="font">
+  <id>gfs-baskerville</id>
+  <metadata_license>CC-BY-3.0</metadata_license>
+  <name>GFS Baskerville</name>
+  <summary>GFS Baskerville Greek font</summary>
+  <description>
+    <p>
+      John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involed in typography late in his career but
+      his contribution was significant.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.
+    </p>
+  </description>
+  <updatecontact>pnemade_at_redhat_dot_com</updatecontact>
+  <url type="homepage">http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/pages/en_typefaces18th.html</url>
+</component>


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