I'm new here, so a paragraph of introduction first. I've just dug some fonts I created over a decade ago off some old disks and I thought I'd find out how to publish them and use them in Fedora, which led me to the Fonts SIG pages, and this list. So far, I've updated the first font using FontForge, and I'm now looking at publishing it on openfontlibrary.org before trying to package it. I've been reading the Fonts SIG pages, taking notes on common packaging errors by reading the package reviews, and examining existing fonts, which leads me to my first problem. I've downloaded a load of Fedora 11 font packages and I've been examining them in Fontmatrix, being nosy about licence and description metadata, and I found that BrettFont's name doesn't display properly in Fontmatrix; the "BrettFont Regular" shows up with the notdef square where the space should be. I was wondering whether this was a fault in the font or Fontmatrix, so I pulled brettfont.ttf into FontForge, and it spat these errors: The glyph named space is mapped to U+00A0. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0020. The glyph named hyphen is mapped to U+00AD. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+002D. The glyph named semicolon is mapped to U+037E. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+003B. The glyph named Delta is mapped to U+2206. But its name indicates it should be mapped to U+0394. I've used ttx from fonttools to dump the font and sure enough, space is only mapped to 0x20 in the Macintosh Roman (1,0) cmap -- in both the Unicode (0,3) and Microsoft Unicode (3,1) cmaps, space only maps to 0xa0, no break space. Because I'm new to TrueType and fontconfig, I assume that BrettFont appears to work in Inkscape because of glyph substitution. As an aside, ttx won't dump BrettFont correctly, even with Agira Tagoh's patch from BZ 512504, because there's another problem with the "gasp" table. I guess I've got two fault reports to raise already, but I wanted to check whether I'd done anything stupid in all the above, and I wondered whether loading a font into FontForge and raising errors upstream would be part of the normal workflow of a font packager? Are there any reports from FontForge that are thought to be too pedantic to bother with? Sorry, lots of questions in one post! Paul. _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
