Ben Armstrong said the following in the thread above called Linux
Fonts:
I question the name free-ttfonts. The convention seems to be:
ttf[-foundryname]-fontorfamilyname
I think I know why this conventon developed for true-type fonts:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/debiangrep-available -F Package
On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 12:12:41AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
That doesn't mean we have to mindlessly stick to it when packaging a 100k
font though. We also have the example of freefont, which used uner 3 mb for
79 smaller type 1 fonts.
No, but neither does it mean we need to follow the freefont
Ben Armstrong wrote:
Meta package. A virtual package is something quite different. It is not a
package itself, but rather a package name, named in the Provides: control
field, thus emacs21 and emacs20 both have Provides of the virutal package
emacsen. A meta package, on the other hand, is a
On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 12:21:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Ben Armstrong wrote:
Meta package. A virtual package is something quite different. It is not a
package itself, but rather a package name, named in the Provides: control
field, thus emacs21 and emacs20 both have Provides of the
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:50:42PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
Ben suggested that I make
a package for each foundry, and then a virtual package that includes
all of them. If Dustin agrees to gpl the rest of his fonts, I'll
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:34:32PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
You will need xfs-xtt to view this font properly.
This is plain wrong. Since XFree86 4.0 we don't need xfs-xtt to use a
True-Type font.
Please don't put this sentence in your description.
Christophe
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Christophe Barbé
Package: wnpp
Version: N/A; reported 2002-08-15
Severity: wishlist
* Package name: ttf-dustismo
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Dustin Mofos [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* URL : http://www.cheapskatefonts.com
* License : GPL
Description : general purpose gpl'ed
I proposed this on debian-devel, but Ben disagreed.
I would be more than happy to create a truetype fonts package to
replace the nonfree xfree86-scalable package and the recently defunct
msttcorefonts. This was my original intent. Ben suggested that I make
a package for each foundry, and then a
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
Ben suggested that I make
a package for each foundry, and then a virtual package that includes
all of them. If Dustin agrees to gpl the rest of his fonts, I'll just
make a ttf-cheapskate package.
Meta package. A virtual
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