1:27 p.m.
Hi,
I'm trying to convert my packages (jomolhari-fonts,
tibetan-machine-uni-fonts) to new font packaging guidelines.
I've encounter one problem that stops me from filling all guidelines.
I don't know the right font family (serif, sans serif, other?) for both
fonts, so I can't create a fontconf files.
How can I find/known this font family (both fonts represents Tibetan
script which I don't know)?
BTW. If both fonts are installed TMU is selected as a primary font for
displaying Dzongkha text, is there a way to set fontconfig to prefer
Jomolhari when dealing with Dzongkha text and TMU when displaying
Tibetan text (Jomolhari is better for Dzongkha text and TMU for Tibetan
text).
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Best regards
Marcin Garski
1:51 p.m.
Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008 à 20:27 +0100, Marcin Garski a écrit :
Hi,
Hi Marcin,
I'm trying to convert my packages (jomolhari-fonts,
tibetan-machine-uni-fonts) to new font packaging guidelines.
Thank you for working on it!
I've encounter one problem that stops me from filling all
guidelines.
I don't know the right font family (serif, sans serif, other?) for both
fonts, so I can't create a fontconf files.
How can I find/known this font family (both fonts represents Tibetan
script which I don't know)?
The current fontconfig classification is very latin-oriented, that's
true. To decide on how the fonts should be best classified you need to
ask the locals. Check on http://translate.fedoraproject.org/languages/
if there is a contact for those locales, and if not ask on the unicode
mailing list where many language experts can help you
http://unicode.org/mail-arch/
BTW. If both fonts are installed TMU is selected as a primary font
for
displaying Dzongkha text, is there a way to set fontconfig to prefer
Jomolhari when dealing with Dzongkha text and TMU when displaying
Tibetan text (Jomolhari is better for Dzongkha text and TMU for Tibetan
text).
There are various ways to put one font first for specific locales. The
current rather brutal way to do it is documented in
/usr/share/doc/fontpackages-devel-*/fontconfig-templates/l10n-font-template.*
It's not completely satisfactory, and Behdad is working on a new
fontconfig release, so don't hesitate to ask him directly (he's often in
the ##fonts irc channel as behdad)
Sincerely,
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Nicolas Mailhot
12:42 p.m.
Le dimanche 21 décembre 2008 à 20:27 +0100, Marcin Garski a écrit :
> I've encounter one problem that stops me from filling all
guidelines.
> I don't know the right font family (serif, sans serif, other?) for both
> fonts, so I can't create a fontconf files.
>
> How can I find/known this font family (both fonts represents Tibetan
> script which I don't know)?
BTW you can certainly do it in two steps, first adapt the package
structure, and then add the fontconfig files (they are strongly
recommended but a package like vera does not have them for example since
the vera rules are shipped in the fontconfig package)
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Nicolas Mailhot
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