October 2009 - fonts - Fedora Mailing-Lists

by rotru＠br.ibm.com

Hi, I have an old IBM fonts package used internally only and I'm willing to repackage it with the latest Fedora's Font Policy to use it on Fedora 12. I have read the policies pages and I am a bit confused with the lot of information there. I split the package in 3 new ones (simple) for each font family and gave the proper names. My doubt is: the old package creates the files fonts.dir and fonts.scale during package installation (%post) using 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' . Can someone tell me if this files are still necessary in Fedora12 or 11 ? Should I create them ? I see that some F11 packages have this files, but others do not. I appreciate any help. Regards Rodrigo Trujillo Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - Brazil

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Coordinating Outreach to font authors

by Máirín Duffy

Hi folks :) I've contacted a few font authors whose fonts either don't have an explicit license or have an ambiguous/custom license about considering choosing a Fedora-compatible font license [1]. Jason Kottke opened up Silkscreen [2] as a result of one of these emails. I recently contacted Mark Simonson similarly regarding his Anonymous fonts [3] and Pablo Caro regarding Tiza [4] & Bola [5]. (Mark is considering it and says to expect an update 'relatively soon', Pablo is very open to it and I'm discussing with him now the steps he needs to take to move forward.) I think it would be cool if we kept track of the contact we've made with font authors in order to help them license their fonts with explicit licenses like the OFL. It would help us avoid duplicating efforts (and potentially annoying the font authors :) ) and also help us keep track of the progress we've made. Would it be okay if I opened up an additional font category for this? I'm not sure what to call it though, maybe Font_license_under_discussion ? ~m [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing#Font_Licenses [2] http://www.kottke.org/plus/type/silkscreen/ [3] http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymous.html [4] http://www.nuevostudio.com/project/tiza/ [5] http://www.nuevostudio.com/projects/bola/

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Packaging M+ & Widelands fonts from the wishlist

by David Ludlow

I'm going to take a stab at packaging the fonts listed in the subject. 'nim' had suggested I give it a shot on #fedora-devel, and it seemed like an interesting challenge. I'm familiar with building RPM packages, but pretty new to the Fedora process. I'm completely ignorant on most aspects of fonts themselves - I see this as an opportunity to learn a little while doing some good. So.... Hello.

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Tiresias fonts question

by Máirín Duffy

Hi folks! I recently wrote up a font wishlist page for the Tiresias fonts: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tiresias_fonts It turns out I didn't notice that the page had already existed since June 2008, but was blank (check out https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Tiresias_fonts&action=history) It also turns out that Tiresias is actually packaged in Fedora! It surprised me because it was in the wishlist list and had no information in its wiki page. tiresias-fonts-common.noarch : Common files for Tiresias fonts : (documentation...) tiresias-info-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for info terminals for the : visually impaired tiresias-info-z-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for info terminals for the : visually impaired tiresias-key-v2-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for labeling keycaps for the : visually impaired tiresias-lp-fonts.noarch : Specialized font for large print publications tiresias-pc-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for use on PCs for the visually : impaired tiresias-pc-z-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for use on PCs for the visually : impaired tiresias-sign-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for preparing signs for the : visually impaired tiresias-sign-z-fonts.noarch : Specialized fonts for preparing signs for the : visually impaired I'm afraid I may have created a mess by filling out that page and I'm wondering what I should do? Should I take off the wishlist tag and add it to the packaged fonts list? Thanks, ~m

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New font package review request for Sheherazade SIL font

by Hedayat Vatankhah

Hi all, I've created a new font package request at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=526058 Any comments and/or suggestions are highly appreciated. Notice that this is my first font package :) Thanks, Hedayat

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EPEL support

by Michel Alexandre Salim

Hello, Is there a reason fontpackages is not available on EPEL (both EL-4 and EL-5)? I don't currently have my CentOS virtual machine set up (VirtualBox is a bit annoying to set up on Rawhide), otherwise I would have tested this myself. Thanks, -- Michel Alexandre Salim

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Self-introduction, and review request

by Michel Alexandre Salim

Hello all, I've been a Fedora packager for several years, mostly focusing on programming language and desktop packages, but have never dabbled at packaging fonts until now. Here's the review request -- for Comic Sans haters, this is Máirín's idea, I'm just the .. err.. perpetrator! Review Request: openfontlibrary-smonohand-font - A handwritten monospace font https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=526607 Please be thorough -- I'm probably breaking several rules I'm not even aware of. Best Regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim

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New font package : oflb-prociono-fonts

by Ankur Sinha

hi folks, I'm happy to announce that oflb-prociono-fonts have been packaged for fedora and pushed to Bodhi. :) Please have a look at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OFLB_Prociono_fonts -- regards, Ankur

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bitmap-fonts by default?

by Jens-Ulrik Petersen

We have been looking at updating bitmap-fonts recently, and noticed that it is still listed mandatory in the comps @base-x group. So I just wondered a couple of naive questions: - does bitmap-fonts have to be installed by default? - what actually needs it? Jens

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