This is just a heads up to anyone who might be thinking of packaging Epigrafica, which is on the Fonts Wishlist. I've added a short form of this information as a caveat to the wiki page. Packaging for Epigrafica has started and stalled twice before, so I had a quick look yesterday to see if it would be an easy win. Unfortunately, it seems not. The Epigrafica sources were released in March 2007, as SFD version 1 files. Around the same time, FontForge bumped the version format to 2, and subsequently to version 3. FontForge will import the Epigrafica sources without complaint, but it does the wrong thing with characters that are compositions of base and diacritics. If you fancy having a look, import Epigrafica Ortha (Regular) and look at U+1E71. It should be a small t with circumflex below, but comes out as small t with capital R below. FontForge doesn't complain about mad combinations, so it wasn't at all obvious that the generated font was only partially usable! I'll ask the author, Antonis Tsolomitis, whether there are any newer versions of the sources. If there aren't, Epigrafica would need to be fixed by going into FontForge and getting it to rebuild all the affected characters (Ctrl+Shift+A on each one? I don't know whether there's a command that will do this wholesale). Since Epigrafica's main feature over the family it forked from, MgOpen Cosmetica, is the much larger set of characters with diacritics, there is no point in packaging Epigrafica until this is fixed. _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
