(Hadn't seen this mail yet) On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 08:07:34PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Hi all, > > Inspired by Máirín's activity I've packaged a few fonts which are now > stuck into review: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/Pipeline?action=show#review-needed > > They will probably be the last fonts I'll package since I don't believe > being responsible for too many different packages is healthy (ok I'll > probably finish the Greek Font Society fonts) If you need help maintaining them, please let me know. I'll try to review some of the not-yet reviewed, time permitting. > Some notes: > > – these are all OTF fonts, so they won't work in apps that can't handle > this format. Some offenders are well-known (OpenOffice.org in > particular, see > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/QA#known-problems). Go > comment/vote in the various upstream issue trackers if you want this > fixed. > > – I didn't package the TrueType variants of the Greek Font Society > fonts: most of the TrueType archives do not include a clear license like > the OTF ones, they're older so I've no idea if they include the whole > last version of the fonts, they declare the same font names and I don't > want to find out how applications will react to the same font in two > different format on-system. I may reconsider if someone convinces the > Greek Font Society to release the same nice archives they did for OTF > fonts, and if the fonts in those archives declare a different font name > (for example GFS Didot TT) I'll ask about the discrepancy. > – I used the font files most recent timestamp as version since the > fonts all declared a 1.0 version but had obviously been modified > several times > in their lives. Again if someone convinces the Greek Font Society to use > proper versioning I may change this in the future. This too. > – most fonts have been declared on fontconfig priority 60, which mean > they may take precendence over other latin fonts if neither DejaVu, nor > Liberation are installed. Nevertheless I didn't just blindly cut and > pasted fontconfig rules, but tried to adapt them to each font. > > – I do not intend to group the Greek Font Society fonts in any > particular way. If there is enough user demand I may create a GFS comps > group, but right now I plan to just ship separate fonts files. Sounds OK to me. Thanks, -- Sarantis _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
