fonts January 2010

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Releasing Lohit Devanagari Today!!
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi All, I am going to release lohit-Devanagari today, presently we have Marathi, Hindi, Nepali, Maitreya, kashmiri (Dev), Sindhi (Dev) Devanagari script base fonts, and all are same, there was plan to add/modify respective font as per each language requirement but having a super set is no problem and we are following that presently But somehow while discussing more on it, i found it we can use only Devanagari font for all without affecting any language other requirement, and also it will be better for development and maintenance as well. In future if we found that two language with same script, requires different representation of same characters either we can use <LANG> tag of Open Type or We can split font that time as per requirement so to the best of my knowledge there is no problem in using same Devanagari script covering all Unicode characters for all languages using Devanagari script. comment/suggestions are welcome Thanks, Pravin S

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fontforge update for f12?
by Kevin Fenzi 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

Greetings. What would folks think about me updating fontforge in f12? I need to push an update to fix: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=560277 Currently f12 has: fontforge-20090622-2 The current version is: fontforge-20090923-2 Anyone prefer I don't update? If so, I can backport the python patch I have instead of updating versions. Thoughts? kevin

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Questions about packaging CYKLOP font
by TK009 07 Jan '10

07 Jan '10

hail troopers and trooperettes, I want to package the CYKLOP font and need to clear up the caveats. I am not sure what is required for caveat #2: "This licensing would not require building from source, though it would be nice to get the sources published and use them to build the Fedora OTFs." What does that mean? Right now there are two font files in a .zip, are they not the source? What am I asking the creator for? This leads to my second question, how do I package this font? Do I create two packages (one for each font) using the same archive or is something else required here? links: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GUST_Cyklop_fonts http://nowacki.strefa.pl/cyklop-e.html http://nowacki.strefa.pl/pliki/Cyklop-otf-0_91.zip TK009

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fontconfig config priority
by Akira TAGOH 05 Jan '10

05 Jan '10

Hi, I have a question and a suggestion for the fontconfig config priority in the font packaging policy. I'm writing a small script to validate the fontconfig config in packages to not mess up. the goal is to check if the priority is set accurately and the config files are following our templates. it roughly started working. but I'm not quite sure what "Latin" in LGC really covers. is it similar to what Latin-[1-10] covers? or more strictly applied? The suggestion is, about improving the policy to set the priority more strictly. I have two ideas: 1) have variety of the priorities for non-LGC fonts as well like for default, main and low perhaps. even though LGC fonts has a priority for default font, but not for non-LGC fonts. it may messes up their default font if multiple fonts with the same priority such as 65 are installed. this priority things could avoids this issue. it may be something like: 65-69 ... High priority non-LGC fonts 70 ... Main non-LGC font list 71-64 ... Low priority non-LGC fonts 2) describes what exactly "default", "Main" and "Low" priority means. during developing and testing this script, I see some packages is possibly wrongly set the priority to their fontconfig config files, for example, some font is set the priority to 57 that is supposed to be the default font, but not marked as mandatory in comps. so I'd suggest to update comps or change the priority like: - mandatory for higher priority - default for main priority - optional for low priority and update the policy with it as well. Any thoughts or comments are welcome. TIA, -- Akira TAGOH

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