fonts February 2010

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Weird behaviour: o is mis-rendered when a j is near
by Dominic Hopf 27 Feb '10

27 Feb '10

Hi all, a few weeks ago I discovered a bit weird behaviour with settings of 96dpi and a font-size of 8pt. Using a sans-serif font, e.g. DejaVu Sans the o is not rendered correctly in some words, in special "Projekt" or "projects", thus every time when a j is near. I'm running a Fedora 12 installation (from XFCE spin if that matters) with current updates. Please let me know if you're missing any additional information. I've reported this issue before to the GNOME Bugzilla [1], since I assumed it may be a pango issue, but as Behdad wrote there it's maybe not. Anyway, there are screenshots of different occurrences available: [2] Geany menubar [3] directory listing in Thunar [4] gedit [5] gedit [6] pango-view Behdad pointed me to the freetype mailing list before, there is a bit discussion you might also want to have a look at available on [7]. I don't know if this maybe also occurs on other distributions, so it may could be a Fedora specific issue. - That's why I'm letting you know by this mail. Maybe someone of you has an idea what could be wrong. Thanks very much in advance for your support! Best Regards, Dominic [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607159 [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=151549 [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=151550 [4] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152263 [5] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152265 [6] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=152268 [7] http://old.nabble.com/mis-rendered-o-when-a-j-is-near-to27342904.html -- Dominic Hopf <dmaphy(a)googlemail.com> http://dominichopf.de/ Key Fingerprint: A7DF C4FC 07AE 4DDC 5CA0 BD93 AAB0 6019 CA7D 868D

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Epigrafica and Breip fonts are no longer in progress
by Paul Flo Williams 18 Feb '10

18 Feb '10

I've been going through the fonts that are marked as in progress for packaging in the wiki and comparing them to review requests in Bugzilla. To track what I was doing, I've made a table here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Frixxon (yeah, too lazy to even make a sub-page!) Of the older packages that were being reviewed, Epigrafica and Breip stalled quickly, after a first attempt at packaging by someone. I've emailed him this evening, and he has confirmed that he won't be correcting the work done so far. So, two things: 1. Breip and Epigrafica are back on the wishlist. Spot also started packaging Epigrafica, but stopped when he realised someone else was doing it. 2. As a newbie myself, I don't know how the review requests for these two should be closed, or who can do it, but it needs doing.

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Re: fontconfig priorities for non-LGC fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

----- "Jens Petersen" <petersen(a)redhat.com> wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Choosing_a_ruleset_… > upstream's 65-nonlatin.conf is at the front of the 65-69 block. > > This seems to largely make it impossible to override "nonlatin" fonts > sometimes in fedora. If we could at least move 65-nonlatin.conf to say 67 (or 69 even?) for F13 that would allow us to keep wqy-zenhei-fonts as a default Chinese font otherwise we have to revert to cjkuni before f13 Beta. Jens

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Re: fontconfig priorities for non-LGC fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

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Re: fontconfig priorities for non-LGC fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

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Re: fontconfig priorities for non-LGC fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 17 Feb '10

17 Feb '10

----- "Jens Petersen" <petersen(a)redhat.com> wrote: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Choosing_a_ruleset_… > upstream's 65-nonlatin.conf is at the front of the 65-69 block. > > This seems to largely make it impossible to override "nonlatin" fonts > sometimes in fedora. If we could at least move 65-nonlatin.conf to 67 say for F13 that would allow us to keep wqy-zenhei-fonts as a default Chinese font otherwise we have to revert to cjkuni before f13 Beta. Jens

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fontconfig priorities for non-LGC fonts
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen 15 Feb '10

15 Feb '10

Hi, We seem to be lacking space in the priority prefixes for fontconfig .conf files for non-LGC fonts (aka nonlatin); maybe others too? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Choosing_a_ruleset_… /usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-priorities.txt in that upstream's 65-nonlatin.conf is at the front of the 65-69 block. This seems to largely make it impossible to override "nonlatin" fonts sometimes in fedora. While we would like to address this upstream with restructuring the space is there something we can do now in fedora for this for f13? We need a fix before beta if we want to stop wqy-zenhei from overriding vlgothic for Japanese. Thoughts, comments? Jens ps Overall 50-69 seems quite a narrow space for the range of fonts we have on hand now.

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Packaging Ubuntu title fonts
by Paul Flo Williams 12 Feb '10

12 Feb '10

I'm starting on my first font package right now. I've picked Ubuntu title fonts because I've taken a look at upstream and the archive file looks very neat, and it is a simple package with only one font style. As this is my first package of any type, I expect I'll have questions shortly, but I just thought for now I'd say that the font is in progress.

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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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Re: [Lohit-devel-list] Releasing Lohit Devanagari Today!!
by pravin.d.s＠gmail.com 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

On 4 February 2010 04:00, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad(a)redhat.com> wrote: > On 02/03/2010 12:48 AM, प्रविण सातपुते wrote: > > > > Language codes are possible, but most software cannot deal with that. > > This is irrelevant. Pango supports it, and HarfBuzz will do also. Other > software can be fixed. > thats nice in that case considering future of harfbuzz (one rendering engine for all), IMO approach <LANG>/locl looks good - Pravin S

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