fonts February 2012

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handling of fonts in the langpack plugin
by Bill Nottingham 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

With the introduction of the langpack plugin for yum, we've managed to remove most of the manually-maintained group metadata for i18n/l10n. However, one spot we still have a problem is for fonts. We *could* for any language that's requested, do an install of font(:lang=<whatever>), but that doesn't give us a useful mechanism to prioritize the proper default font. Would it be worth it for the default fonts for a particular locale to Provide: default-font(lang=<foo>)? Maintaining this could be problematic, but we would only need to do this for locales that aren't handled by dejavu or similar latin/greek/etc. fonts. Bill

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[PATCH 0/6] Liberation: more flexible Makefile incl. formats for web
by Jan Pokorný 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Hi Pravin and list, at sunzi project, we strive to consume external components from their repositories and other native locations. To make it easily possible also with Liberation fonts, I went through the existing Makefile with the aim to add support for exporting into common web formats, making some other changes on my way. In fact, the change I desire is concentrated in the last patch, but I hope the previous ones (split into more patches for easier review) also make sense. The compatibility with releasing workflow as well as with the job of system packagers should be guaranteed. If there is something wrong with the patchset, feel free to bug me on. Otherwise I would be grateful for applying it. P.S. I can go ahead and file a bug (referring to this thread) if it is a preferred channel. Regards, Jan Jan Pokorný (6): Makefile: do not remove file we do not create Fix duplicate README (nested as link to root one) Makefile: add .PHONY target Makefile: add check target using fontlint Makefile: restructure for usability and modularity Makefile: now support other common export formats source/.gitignore | 8 +++ source/Makefile | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- source/README | 83 +--------------------------- source/scripts/fontexport.pe | 22 +++++++ 4 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-) create mode 100644 source/.gitignore mode change 100644 => 120000 source/README create mode 100644 source/scripts/fontexport.pe

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[Announce] Released 2.5.1 version of the Lohit fonts
by Pravin Satpute 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Hi All, Announcing the Lohit fonts 2.5.1 release. Following are the highlights. - Support for Characters added in Unicode 6.0 in Devanagari, Bengali, Malayalam and Oriya scripts and Devanagari Extended. - Release of Lohit Marathi and Nepali with language specific shapes. Please note here Lohit Devanagari has localize characters for Marathi and Nepali with locl feature of Open Type fonts and one can access it with specific LANG. Still we have released these fonts since some rendering engine (qt, icu) still not supporting locl feature and second is user using en_US locale can not access language specific characters from Lohit Devanagari. - Releasing lohit-ttf tarball consisting all lohit fonts ttf This is for easy installation of all lohit fonts together. One can now download it and simply copy all ttf fonts in required folder. - Major bugfixes in Telugu, Kannada, Assamese, Punjabi. For further details see Changelog released with each language. I am working on Lohit Tamil fonts will release it soon with Lohit Tamil Classical font. Best Regards, Pravin Satpute

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Re: handling of fonts in the langpack plugin
by Bill Nottingham 24 Feb '12

24 Feb '12

Behdad Esfahbod (behdad.esfahbod(a)gmail.com) said: > So, if i understand it correctly, you're asking for a way to get the > default font for a language. Right? Right. Given a language (zh, pa, pt_BR), I want to be able to grab the default font, so we don't have to have the language support groups. > That sure sounds like something Fontconfig shall be able to answer, > but it's tricky. Do you need this on the server or client? Cause > FcMatch and friends only return fonts that are installed. What you > want can be done by processing the ":lang=foo" pattern by Fc > Sybstitute calls, then taking the resulting family list and pickin the > first one that supports the lang in question. > > After you answer my question re which side you need this on I can > hopefully provide more concrete advice. On the client, which may have no font packages installed. I thought about having the plugin read the fontconfig configuration for preferred fonts, but given that that operates based on the configuration files in the font packages themselves, I don't have the information there that I would need. Bill

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missing in comps
by Akira TAGOH 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hi, this is a result of the following script checking for packages that is not described in @fonts nor @legacy-fonts in comps. if it's not intentional, please add them to comps. $ diff -u <(repoquery @fonts @legacy-fonts|sort|uniq) <(repoquery "*-fonts"|sort|uniq)|grep -E "^\+"|sed -e 's/^\+//' abattis-cantarell-fonts-0:0.0.7-2.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-anorexia-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-aqui-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-cure-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-drift-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-edges-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-fkp-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-gelly-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-glisp-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-kates-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-lime-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-mints-mild-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-mints-strong-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-nu-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-smoothansi-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch artwiz-aleczapka-snap-fonts-0:1.3-12.fc17.noarch bicon-fonts-0:0.2.0-3.fc17.noarch culmus-hadasim-clm-fonts-0:0.121-1.fc17.noarch culmus-keteryg-fonts-0:0.121-1.fc17.noarch culmus-simple-clm-fonts-0:0.121-1.fc17.noarch culmus-stamashkenaz-clm-fonts-0:0.121-1.fc17.noarch culmus-stamsefarad-clm-fonts-0:0.121-1.fc17.noarch denemo-emmentaler-fonts-0:0.9.2-2.fc17.noarch denemo-feta-fonts-0:0.9.2-2.fc17.noarch gdouros-symbola-fonts-0:2.54-3.fc17.noarch google-lato-fonts-0:1.011-3.fc17.noarch grimmer-proggy-tinysz-fonts-0:1.0-6.fc17.noarch jsmath-fonts-0:20090708-4.fc17.noarch kanjistrokeorders-fonts-0:2.016-2.fc17.noarch kanotf-fonts-0:20050515-2.fc17.noarch levien-museum-fonts-0:1.0-3.fc17.noarch liberation-narrow-fonts-0:1.07.2-1.fc18.noarch linux-libertine-biolinum-fonts-0:4.7.5-2.2.fc17.noarch manchu-fonts-0:2.006-4.fc17.noarch mona-sazanami-fonts-0:2.90-15.fc17.noarch mona-vlgothic-fonts-0:2.90-15.fc17.noarch mplus-1c-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch mplus-1m-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch mplus-1mn-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch mplus-1p-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch mplus-2c-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch mplus-2m-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch mplus-2p-fonts-0:028-3.fc17.noarch nafees-pakistani-web-naskh-fonts-0:2.0-3.fc17.noarch pagul-fonts-0:1.0-3.fc17.noarch paktype-ajrak-fonts-0:2.0-6.fc17.noarch paktype-naskh-basic-farsi-fonts-0:3.0-10.fc17.noarch paktype-naskh-basic-fonts-0:3.0-10.fc17.noarch paktype-naskh-basic-sa-fonts-0:3.0-10.fc17.noarch paktype-naskh-basic-sindhi-fonts-0:3.0-10.fc17.noarch paktype-naskh-basic-urdu-fonts-0:3.0-10.fc17.noarch pothana2000-fonts-0:1.3.3-2.fc17.noarch sil-nuosu-fonts-0:2.1.1-4.fc17.noarch tabish-eeyek-fonts-0:1.0-2.fc17.noarch tangerine-fonts-0:1.000-3.fc17.noarch texlive-texmf-errata-fonts-0:2007-9.fc17.noarch texlive-texmf-fonts-0:2007-41.fc17.noarch texmacs-fedora-fonts-0:1.0.7.11-2.fc17.noarch thai-arundina-sans-fonts-0:0.1.3-2.fc17.noarch thai-arundina-sans-mono-fonts-0:0.1.3-2.fc17.noarch thai-arundina-serif-fonts-0:0.1.3-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-garuda-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-kinnari-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-loma-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-norasi-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-purisa-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-sawasdee-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-tlwgmono-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-tlwgtypewriter-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-tlwgtypist-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-tlwgtypo-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch thai-scalable-umpush-fonts-0:0.4.17-2.fc17.noarch tlomt-league-gothic-fonts-0:1.0-3.fc17.noarch tlomt-orbitron-fonts-0:1.000-4.fc17.noarch tlomt-sniglet-fonts-0:1.000-4.fc17.noarch ukij-tuz-fonts-0:3.10-2.fc17.noarch un-core-dotum-fonts-0:1.0.2-0.18.080608.fc17.noarch vdrsymbol-fonts-0:20100612-2.fc17.noarch wine-courier-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-marlett-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-ms-sans-serif-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-small-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-symbol-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-system-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch wine-tahoma-fonts-0:1.4-0.2.rc2.fc17.noarch --- Akira TAGOH

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[Announce] Released Liberation fonts 1.07.2
by Pravin Satpute 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Hi All, Released Liberation fonts 1.07.2 [minor release] Changelog: - removed hint instruction from LiberationMono-Italic cent sing, rhbz #753572 - adeed U+0472, U+0473 in Sans and SansNarrow, rhbz #751566 - added cyrillic italics for U+043F, rhbz #708330 Few hinting bugs are pending, will try to resolve them in next release. See TODO list for remaining tasks. Best Regards, Pravin Satpute

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[announcement] Code2000 font switched license from shareware to GPLv3+FE || OFL
by Paul Wise 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Hi all, Great news! The author of the Code2000 pan-Unicode font has recently switched the font to being licensed under the GNU GPLv3. During the discussions where I attempted to verify the license and get commit access to the project, James granted dual licensing under the GPLv3+FE and the SIL OFL. Unfortunately he wants to keep the code2000.sf.net project as a historic and no-longer developed project and have us fork the project, hosting it elsewhere. My initial plans for the project are: * pick a name for the fork, C2K was suggested during the discussion * pick a site for hosting the fork, add Thierry, myself and anyone else who wants to join the project * setup a git repository and import the current binary TTF release * convert the binary TTF files into UFO format, which seems to be a more cross-vendor format than SFD, commit that to git. According to the current release, "All fonts are created from scratch natively in TTF format inside FontCreator 6.0". * cleanup and add documentation about the licensing * package it for Debian and encourage other distros to package it * blog about the freeing of the font and get that on LWN/etc * look for contributors and watch for bug reports -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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