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Dear all, I'm packaging a few Persian fonts, such as [1], and I encountered a few things which I'm not sure what to do:
1. For some font families, the font provides both normal font files for different font faces (e.g. regular, bold, ...), and also a variable version. I was wondering if they should be packaged into separate packages or not. I didn't see anything special about variable font packaging in the guidelines, but I've seen that some fonts provides separate packages for variable fonts (e.g. with -vf suffix in the name). Can I provide both in the same package or I should also create a -vf subpackage for variable version?
2. The font is mainly designed to support Persian/Arabic scripts,
but each family is actually provided in two versions: a normal one
(e.g. Vazirmatn family), and a Non-Latin one (e.g. Vazirmatn-NL
family). The only difference is that the normal one is combined
with Roboto font so that it also provides Latin glyphs. I should
confess that I do not completely understand the implications of
each of these, specially when fontconfig font selection rules are
being applied. So, does packaging both of these families make
sense? If I want to promote one of them to be used for Persian
text by fontconfig, does it make a difference which one of them I
promote? (This question is mainly about packaging NL type of
families; I'll talk about the current state of Persian text
rendering in Fedora and what can be done in a separate email).
Regards, Hedayat
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