fonts June 2008

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GNU Unifont update
by Qianqian Fang 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

I think this will probably be interesting to the people in this list. With the blessing from Roman Czyborra, the former maintainer of GNU Unifont, Paul Hardy, a volunteer developer from CA, is now officially maintaining this widely used dual-width bitmap font. In the past couple months, Paul devoted tremendous of efforts toward the goal of complete BMP coverage of Unifont. In the meantime, we had extensive collaboration and ported all our latest creation of Hanzi glyphs, including the Unicode 5.1 additions, from WenQuanYi's fonts to GNU Unifont. Paul told me that he is very close to make a release, perhaps a few thousands glyphs away from a complete BMP font. His website and the latest fonts can be found from here: http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html It would be nice to see this extensively updated GNU Unifont pushed through all branches for Fedora. I will keep you posted or send Paul directly here to announce his release. Qianqian

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liberation-fonts 1.04 beta2 released
by Caius Carlos CHANCE 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

Hi, The liberation-fonts 1.04.beta2 has been released: https://fedorahosted.org/releases/l/i/liberation-fonts/ There are some extra testings needed on comparison of glyphs between 1.03 and 1.04.beta2, which for ensuring no difference of glyphs between such two releases. I sincerely encourage all of you kindly test it in fortnight and provide some feedback. All of your information is extremely valuable to improve the quality of Liberation Fonts. Thank you very much for your help. Best Regards, Caius. -- Caius Carlos Chance < cchance AT redhat DOT com > Red Hat APAC | http://apac.redhat.com/disclaimer/

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Packaging Fonts: HELP
by Angel 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Hi, I am Angel from Bangladesh. I just ve joined here. I am confusing, how to start. Anyway, I am going to the topic. I've been using the Unicode based Bengali fonts of Ekushey <http://ekushey.org/?page/otf_bangla_fonts> for a long time, specially SolaimanLipi which I use almost everywhere. From BLUA<http://linux.org.bd>this fonts are available for Ubuntu and some other distros. To make these fine fonts easily available on Fedora, I've made a rpm package of all of them called *ttf-ekushey*. RHEL can use this package too. Now please, someone help me with this, how can I packaging this fonts for Fedora? Thanks in advance. -- Angel GPG key: 0xC4639705 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Angel Fedora -- Freedom² and rapid innovation

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Fonts SIG wiki migration cleanup & changes
by Nicolas Mailhot 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hi all, After 10 days of work and about 850 changes the Fonts SIG wiki is operationnal again. (I don't know mediawiki, so I won't claim to have been efficient). The cleanup was accompagned by restructuring to take into account differing moin/mediawiki capabilities and the fact some pages had become huge and monstruous over time. The SIG home page has been moved to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fonts_SIG The old SIG pipeline and wishlist pages have been split in per-font articles to be more manageable: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Packaged_fonts http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist The new SIG workflow is to create a new page per font and change the page category as the font progresses in the packaging process. A documented font page template is provided to ease this workflow. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Font_description_template If you're the maintainer of a font package, or if you've added a font to the wishlist, please check the corresponding font page exists and is as complete as possible. I've nuked the old SIG member list. It was incomplete and not up to date. If you wish to register your interest in the SIG please just add the Fonts_SIG_members category to your homepage to get listed there. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Fonts_SIG_members Using categories means you get nice dynamic self-maintaining indexes all over the place. I hope the end result is clear and pleasant and will motivate more people to work on the big font wishlist. Remember: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_10_fonts_packaging_call Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Font autoinstallation meeting
by Behdad Esfahbod 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi guys, Lets meet Monday June 9th 17:00 UTC in ##fonts on freenode to discuss font autoinstallation in Fedora. I've recently committed patches to GTK+ and gnome-settings-daemon (the latter not committed just yet, but expect to commit today or tomorrow) to detect fontconfig configuration changes and react to it [1]. By react, I mean: - Make fontconfig reread its configuration, seeing newly installed fonts, changed configs, etc, - Make Pango fontmap drop its fontset caches, - Redraw all widgets. With these in place, you can install a font rpm and all running applications will pick it up withing 5 seconds. Next logical step is to detect when fonts are missing for some language, and let PackageKit offer installing them. That's what I want to discuss at the meeting. To get us started, this is the very rough design I have in mind right now: - Hook into PangoFcFontMap's load_fontset method, and if the font pattern for the first font in the just-loaded fontset does not cover the asked language, signal missing fonts for language. - The signal will be propagated to PackageKit over D-BUS - PackageKit will show a notification suggesting to install fonts for langauge. In a further dialog it will list all font packages covering the missing language(s?) and let user choose which ones to install. Discussion: - I don't like making Pango do much. My previous idea was to add a missing-fonts hook in Pango that another module can hook into. I don't like that idea much now. Hooks are in general very unscalable in the long run. - Here's another way to handle it: I'm going to make some changes to PangoFontMap handling. The part relevant here is that one can call pango_cairo_font_map_set_default() to change the default font map. Then: - PackageKit-gnome will install a gtk-module that upon loading, gets the current pangocairo defaultfontmap, subclasses it anonymously (that's perfectly possible), overrides the load_fontset method, creates an instance of it, and sets it as the new default pangocairo fontmap. - The hook then is responsible for using D-BUS or any other means (xsettings?!) to notify PackageKit of missing fonts and at that point I'm done :). For this to work, it's easiest if font packages provided names like font-lang-fa, font-lang-fa_IR, font-lang-az_IR, etc. We can develop a script to automatically generate that at package build time. Fontconfig already has that list. Anyway, further discussion during the meeting :). Cheers, behdad [1] http://mces.blogspot.com/2008/06/online-font-installation.html

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WebKit font problems
by Martin Sourada 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Hi, I though this bug [1] I've just filled against WebKit might be of some interest to you. In short, WebKit shows blank space instead of some characters, I noticed Japanese, Chinese and Korean to be the ones affected. I am not sure if it's WebKit or Fedora-way-of-font-handling issue, so I though I might let you know as well... (I hope I am not just causing noise :-D) Thanks, Martin References: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448693

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To every cursive or fantasy font packager
by Nicolas Mailhot 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Dear all, Fontconfig 2.6 was just built in Fedora Devel, targetting the Fedora 10 release. One of the changes in this version is the addition of fantasy and cursive generic families. If you've been packaging (or are intending to package) a fantasy or cursive font, please add a fontconfig file to your package that registers your font in those new families. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Packaging/Fontconfig#Generic_names http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Packaging/Fontconfig#Registering_a… Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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