http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1444 <pre>Hi all,   The updated package google-croscore-fonts-1.21.0-3.fc17 is now pushed to stable. I have done some comparison of Liberation vs Croscore fonts. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/Liberation_vs_Croscore_fonts   Currently, I have marked google-croscore-fonts as a optional package in comps-f18. Considering it has got more orthography support compared to Liberation font can we install it default? But, I would also say that we have active development for Liberation font and if a bug comes for Liberation font we can fix it. I am not sure how a bug can be fixed for google croscore font. I can't find upstream URL as well as a way to fix any upcoming bugs and get its fix upstream. We can fix them in Fedora only. Any thoughts? Regards, Parag. _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Parag N(पराग़ 2012-05-03T04:01:24 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1443 <pre>Hey, in the absence of time and motivation I'm searching for new maintainers for my font packages. Actually I didn't update them for a while and I think they are in better hands with someone else. It's the following packages: - hartke-aurulent-sans-fonts [1] - vollkorn-fonts [2] - yanone-tagesschrift-fonts [3] If someone's interested please reply to this message or ask for acess in pkgdb. regards, Paul [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/hartke-aurulent-sans-fonts [2] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/vollkorn-fonts [3] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/yanone-tagesschrift-fonts _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Paul Lange 2012-05-01T22:34:04 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1440 <pre>Many advertisements have headlines in script fonts in which a given character is identical throughout the document. Real handwriting, however, has slight variations between "e" and "e" or between "n" and "n", for example. Try it yourself, especially by writing at your normal speed, not slower or more meticulously than usually. Less frequent uses include mimicking stone-cut fonts. But this realism of variation disappears in computer graphics. One could change text to several similar fonts, but most of us don't install several scripts that are graphically coordinated as if they're from the same hand, if such fonts even exist. Character-by-character substitution would be laborious anyway. Bitmap art programs are a kludge at most, largely impracticable. The solution I propose is automatic font-swapping within a subset of fonts. A user would designate several fonts as being mutually swappable by the running executable. The principal functionality could be performable mostly by the operating system at an appli</pre> Nick Levinson 2012-04-21T19:08:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1438 <pre> Hi, just for suggestion according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=708525#c18 that may be worth trying enabling autohint by default in f18 and see how it looks better. if there are less fonts not working properly, we could disable it in the fontconfig config file in the specific font packages perhaps. Any comments? -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Akira TAGOH 2012-04-11T02:36:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1433 <pre>Hey there Fonts SIG! I'm interested mainly in packaging fonts. I'm new to Fedora, both as a user and as a contributor, so it might be a bumpy ride ;-). I'm consuming as much documentation as I can about the whole font stack. I've got a few questions: 1. What's the consenus about bitmap fonts? On http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Font_rendering_and_text_layouting I found this: "Nowadays Fedora converges on OpenType (TTF/OTF) fonts in Unicode encoding, and no efforts should be wasted on legacy formats. " Does this mean bitmap fonts should be converted (possibly by hand), or are BDF/PCF fine? (I ask this because some of my favorite fonts are bitmap) 2. What are the most common pitfalls / What should I be aware of as I depart on this journey? 3. Are the fonts listed on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist purely in want of a packeger (i.e. I can get cracking)? _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai</pre> Corey Richardson 2012-03-24T19:52:21 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1432 <pre>Hi, I have created a new package review request, croscore-fonts[1]. I will be happy if anyone can help me by reviewing it. In case anyone needs any package review in exchange of this please tell me and I will be happy to review your package. Regards, Parag. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805416 _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Parag N(पराग़ 2012-03-22T13:19:08 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1428 <pre>Hi, I have an OLPC XO-1.5 with Fedora remix, Build 883, 11.3.0. Half brackets are not rendered in Firefox. Given a suitable font, they should be visible in this page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Unicode_chart_Supplemental_Punctuation TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET for example is U+2E22. Fonts containing the half bracket are listed here. http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2e22/fontsupport.htm Are these glyphs rendered in any Fedora? Can anyone tell me which Fedora package, if any, contains a font containing half brackets? Once a font containing the half brackets is present, what else is needed to allow Firefox to render them? Thanks, ... Peter E. </pre> Peter Easthope 2012-03-14T18:51:47 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1417 <pre>I am looking at updating egoboo to 2.8.1 and it includes 5 ttf files that it didn't before (and the one it had been using was dropped). ./basicdat/Bo_Chen.ttf ./basicdat/Squerkle.ttf ./basicdat/Mael.ttf ./basicdat/Egobooish.ttf ./basicdat/Gnomish_digital.ttf How do I check if these are at least free enough not to have to scrub them from the source rpm? If they are free enough to use, what do I need to do to use them in Fedora? Do they need to be in separate subpackages? _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Bruno Wolff III 2012-03-11T22:20:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1391 <pre>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=&lt;whatever&gt;), 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=&lt;foo&gt;)? 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 _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Bill Nottingham 2012-02-24T20:01:53 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1372 <pre>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 F</pre> Paul Wise 2012-02-04T11:06:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1371 <pre>Hi, I heard that Ubuntu is going to change the default Korean font from un-core to nanum within their P release cycle: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss/13090 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/836430 Since I maintain both font packages in Fedora, I would like to ask Korean users whether it is a good thing to do as well in F17. AFAIK, the only concern discussed there was that they dropped nanum-coding font (a monospace variant of nanum-gothic, distributed as a separate upstream tarball) from the default install, due to size limitation. I guess we could also simply mark it as optional in comps (like un-extra-*-fonts). Regards, </pre> Daiki Ueno 2012-01-16T08:01:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1370 <pre> ------------------------------ Message original ------------------------------ Objet: Orphaned packages De: "Michal Nowak" Date: Mar 29 novembre 2011 11:28 À: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I've just orphaned following packages: * xcb-util * gnome-colors-icon-theme (and retired) * khmeros-fonts * kurdit-unikurd-web-fonts * libev * libxdg-basedir * monkeysphere (I guess Bernie needs co-maintainer) Feel free to take them. </pre> Nicolas Mailhot 2011-11-29T11:21:14 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1366 <pre> Hi, Due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757105, some font packages needs to be rebuilt to add font(lang=...) back to its Provides line, with rpm-4.9.1.2-5.fc17 or similar coming next week for f16, maybe for f15 as well. I just wrote a small tool to check this deps and attached a log. please check it out if your package is there. the log file contains the package name doesn't have font(:lang=...) and current Provides lines. When the updated rpm package is available, I'll file a bug for font packages not yet rebuilding with it. TIA, -- Akira TAGOH artwiz-aleczapka-fonts-0:1.3-11.fc15.noarch: artwiz-aleczapka-fonts = 1.3-11.fc15 baekmuk-bdf-fonts-0:2.2-10.fc17.noarch: baekmuk-bdf-fonts = 2.2-10.fc17 bicon-fonts-0:0.2.0-2.fc15.noarch: bicon-fonts = 0.2.0-2.fc15 cjkuni-ukai-fonts-0:0.2.20080216.1-47.fc16.noarch: cjkuni-ukai-fonts = 0.2.20080216.1-47.fc16 config(cjkuni-ukai-fonts) = 0.2.20080216.1-47.fc16 cjkuni-uming-fonts-0:0.2.20080216.1-47.fc16.noarch: cjkuni-uming-fonts = 0.2.20080216</pre> Akira TAGOH 2011-11-28T03:43:38 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1363 <pre> Hi, I'm willing to introduce a small tool[1] to generate the fontconfig config file from the font, according to our font packaging policy[2]. This tool supports to generate: * Font substitution rule[3] * Generic names rule * Locale-specific overrides rule[4] I'd like to add it into the macro from fontpackages in the future if it's suitable and reasonable. this would gives us a good opportunity to have a consistency in our fontconfig config file and to help the maintainer for better fontconfig support on fonts. Any thought, suggestion are welcome. Regards, -- Akira TAGOH 1 .. http://github.com/tagoh/fc-xmlgen 2 .. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips 3 .. --subst option is required 4 .. --lang option is required _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Akira TAGOH 2011-11-14T11:05:39 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1360 <pre>I've made a couple of fonts that are distributed through Fedora; today, someone pointed out that Essays1743 has really wide line spacing. (*) Essays is based on a particular book from 1743, whose lines are *much* closer together than that--in OpenOffice, I have to set the paragraph spacing to about 75% to get something reasonable. I want to fix this, but I'm concerned about people's existing documents getting messed up. What do you guys think? (I thought this would be a good group of people to talk about the installed base of a font.) (*) A sample document: http://www.thibault.org/fonts/essays/Sample.pdf </pre> francis+fedora+fonts-jhTuhD+Z699g9hUCZPvPmw< at >public.gmane.org 2011-11-09T19:35:36 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1351 <pre>A couple of characters in my VL Gothic don't look right. I have vlgothic-fonts-20110414 under Fedora 13. The odd-looking characters are 外 家 Where is the right place to discuss this? _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Mark Alford 2011-10-03T01:46:27 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1349 <pre>Hi All, Released 1.07.1 version of Liberation fonts. Changelog: - Resolved bug 738264, corrected height of U+040D in Liberation Mono - Resolved bug 729989, corrected macron position on ā, ē, ī, ō, ū in Narrow fonts - Enabled embedding of font - Added License link https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense Best Regards, Pravin Satpute _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts&lt; at &gt;lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Pravin Satpute 2011-09-21T05:30:23 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1345 <pre>Nicolas, Can you please adjust the droid-sans conf file to add either binding=same or binding=strong to all edits? If you run fc-scan on DroidSansJapanese.ttf right now, you see that the family, fullname, and fontversion values are marked weak (w). We really want them to be (s). Thanks, behdad _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts-TuqUDEhatI4ANWPb/1PvSmm0pvjS0E/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/ </pre> Behdad Esfahbod 2011-06-22T17:09:49 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1335 <pre>Hi, it was noticed in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=705348 that the most straightforward way to force autohinting for a particular font: &lt;match target="font"&gt; &lt;test name="family" compare="eq"&gt; &lt;string&gt;Your Font&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/test&gt; &lt;edit name="autohint" mode="assign"&gt; &lt;bool&gt;true&lt;/bool&gt; &lt;/edit&gt; &lt;/match&gt; MAY CAUSE PROBLEMS in Qt applications (more precisely, force autohinting also for other fonts which should use the bytecode interpreter), especially if your font is one of the fonts pulled in for locale coverage (e.g. the Lohit fonts). Instead, the following snippet is safe to use: &lt;match target="font"&gt; &lt;test qual="first" name="family" compare="eq"&gt; &lt;string&gt;Your Font&lt;/string&gt; &lt;/test&gt; &lt;edit name="autohint" mode="assign"&gt; &lt;bool&gt;true&lt;/bool&gt; &lt;/edit&gt; &lt;/match&gt; Note the added qual="first" attribute. Please ALWAYS USE THIS QUALIFIER when forcing autohinting for a specific font. (I wasn't aware of this issue myself before this bug report came up. Thanks to Akira Tag</pre> Kevin Kofler 2011-06-06T02:36:03 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1332 <pre>Hi All, Released 1.07.0 version of Liberation fonts, dropping date from release tarball from this release. Major Changes: - Resolved major bug in Monospace fonts. (Thanks to Cody Boisclair &lt;cody-aexPXg9UcLOsTnJN9+BGXg&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org&gt; for his patch ) - Added required Unicode characters for Bulgarian language. See Changelog for more details &lt; at &gt; https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts Best Regards, Pravin Satpute _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts-TuqUDEhatI4ANWPb/1PvSmm0pvjS0E/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/ </pre> Pravin Satpute 2011-05-30T10:43:00 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts/1330 <pre>Hi. Pardon me if this isn't the place to ask this, but it was the place I thought was most appropriate after a little looking around. I'm running Fedora 15, which I am dual booting with Windows 7. On my windows partition I've installed a number of Opentype fonts that I own. I created symlinks to these fonts in a directory at ~/.winFonts and then attempted to run fc-cache -fv winFonts. The output showed me that there were a number of new fonts, however I still don't see them in any of the applications I use. Can anyone see what could be going wrong? Sincerely Varun Madiath _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts-TuqUDEhatI4ANWPb/1PvSmm0pvjS0E/A&lt; at &gt;public.gmane.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/</pre> Varun Madiath 2011-04-06T16:13:57 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.fonts