Re: Help with new font packaging guidelines (choosing font family)

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Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008 à 20:27 +0100, Marcin Garski a écrit :
> Hi,

Hi Marcin,

> I'm trying to convert my packages (jomolhari-fonts, 
> tibetan-machine-uni-fonts) to new font packaging guidelines.

Thank you for working on it!

> I've encounter one problem that stops me from filling all guidelines.
> I don't know the right font family (serif, sans serif, other?) for both 
> fonts, so I can't create a fontconf files.
> 
> How can I find/known this font family (both fonts represents Tibetan 
> script which I don't know)?

The current fontconfig classification is very latin-oriented, that's
true. To decide on how the fonts should be best classified you need to
ask the locals. Check on http://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages/
if there is a contact for those locales, and if not ask on the unicode
mailing list where many language experts can help you
http://unicode.org/mail-arch/

> BTW. If both fonts are installed TMU is selected as a primary font for 
> displaying Dzongkha text, is there a way to set fontconfig to prefer 
> Jomolhari when dealing with Dzongkha text and TMU when displaying 
> Tibetan text (Jomolhari is better for Dzongkha text and TMU for Tibetan 
> text).

There are various ways to put one font first for specific locales. The
current rather brutal way to do it is documented in
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages-devel-*/fontconfig-templates/l10n-font-template.*

It's not completely satisfactory, and Behdad is working on a new
fontconfig release, so don't hesitate to ask him directly (he's often in
the ##fonts irc channel as behdad)

Sincerely,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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