[Bug 454176] New: Review Request: gfs-jackson-fonts - GFS Jackson majuscule Greek font

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454176

           Summary: Review Request: gfs-jackson-fonts - GFS Jackson
                    majuscule Greek font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx
         QAContact: extras-qa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                CC: fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx,notting@xxxxxxxxxx


Spec URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-jackson-fonts.spec
SRPM URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-jackson-fonts-20080303-1.fc10.src.rpm

Description:
As it is known, the Greek alphabet was used in majuscule form for over a
millenium before the miniscule letters gradually replaced it until they became
the official script in the 9th century A.D. Thereafter, majuscule letters were
confined to sparce use as initials or elaborate titles until the Italian
Renaissance.

The new art of Typography, as well as the need of the humanists to mimic the
ancient Greco-Roman period brought back the extensive use of the majuscule
letterforms in both Latin and Greek typography. Greek books of the time were
printed using the contemporary Byzantine hand with which they combined capital
letters modeled on the Roman antiquity, i.e. with thick and thin strokes and
serifs. At the same time the byzantine majuscule tradition, principally used on
theological editions, remained alive until the early 19th century.

GFS Jackson is an edition of the font cut, in 1788, by Joseph Jackson on
commission by the Cambridge University in preparation of the edition of the
Beza codex containing the New Testament from the 5th-6th century. Theodore Beza
was the erudite scholar from Geneva who had given the codex as a gift to the
University in 1581.

It has been designed by George D. Matthiopoulos.

See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GFS_Jackson_font

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