Re: Default variable fonts in Google Noto

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 4:26 PM Nicolas Mailhot
<nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 12 juillet 2019 à 14:11 +0900, Akira TAGOH a écrit :
> > Hi,
>
> Hi
>
> > I'm planning to write a Change proposal for things as subject, to
> > have
> > more variants and styles without increasing disk spaces and/or to
> > reduce disk spaces.
> >
> > We have a few languages or someone who potentially be impacted by
> > this change.
> >
> > - Sinhala
> > - Punjabi (from f31 AFAIK)
> > - In case Noto has already been installed and explicitly used in
> > applications.
> >
> > Does anyone has any concerns on this change?
>
> I hadn't planned on touching Noto Sans (yet) but is would be nice if
> each noto (sub) package was fixed to merge properly all the per-script
> language bits in a single Noto Sans font family. There's no reason for
> Noto Sans to eat half the font list in apps, breadown in multiple files
> is a technical artefact, not a functional one.

Yes, that would be next steps to improve functionality. it is in my
todo list too. Thank you for reminding me.

> That is not incompatible with shipping Noto in multiple packages, as
> long as each package includes the correct fontconfig rules to merge its
> part of Noto in the main family when installed.
>
> (and yes the "merge font" syntax in fontconfig is overly awkward and
> verbose, I intended to pester you about it sometimes later:))

Indeed, having the syntactic sugar for that would be helpful.

>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Mailhot
>


-- 
Akira TAGOH
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