Re: [Fedora-fonts-list] [Bug 490609] New: Font selector is limiting styles for default aliases

2007-10-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
fedora users too and they're a lot more interesting than the closed upstream info we usually get in fedora bugzilla. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list

[Fedora-fonts-list] Some wiki updates

2007-10-28 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in the http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Dev section. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Mailing list changes, QA process

2007-11-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
time you report a problem. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts

[Fwd: Summary of the 2007-11-20 Packaging Committee meeting]

2007-11-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
the committee or rotate through some members on-list. * Next meeting will be December 4th at 17:00UTC. - J -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora

Re: computer modern unicode fonts?

2007-11-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
they are not already but I can't seem to find them in Fedora. They're not because their build process is non-trivial, I wholly agree it would be great to package them, but it needs someone with TEX experience to do them. I've already added them to the wishlist some time back. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Bunch of new Fonts added to wishlist

2007-11-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
the License subsection). This one should have been passed through fedora-legal before inclusion. Everyone please do not package any font with a new license without getting its license approved on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Legal -- Nicolas Mailhot

Core fonts packaging guidelines writer WANTED

2007-11-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. And in the end core fonts users would be better served by guidelines written by less busy people who actually use the core fonts backend. This will be my last statement on the subject. Thank you for your attention. -- Nicolas Mailhot Hi, As most of you know most of the Linux ecosystem

Re: Core fonts packaging guidelines writer WANTED

2007-11-29 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 29 novembre 2007 11:09, Hans de Goede a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: And here is the problem, when you write the level of abuse we've seen from core font users lately below, I guess you mean mainly me, and I apologize as I indeed have wrongly blamed the font SIG for the current

Re: VLGothic-fonts fontconfig

2008-01-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. First time I see one of those. D. I'd also advise taking a look at whatever solution we've arrived for wqy-bitmap-fonts, as the massive exchanges we had on the subject must have produced something acceptable Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora

Re: Live images and fonts

2008-01-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N :p -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Packaging Unikurd Web font for Debian

2008-04-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
channel if needed. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Packaging Unikurd Web font for Debian

2008-04-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le jeudi 10 avril 2008 à 09:34 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Le Jeu 10 avril 2008 05:05, Erdal Ronahi a écrit : Is there any chance that packaging for one distribution (Fedora or Debian) will spare me packaging it for the other? None at all, unfortunately Also, since http

Packagekit font autoinstall [was Re: Some packagekit feedback]

2008-04-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 13 avril 2008 à 19:39 +0100, Richard Hughes a écrit : On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 14:17 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: — help users install the right fonts on their system: — when a user encounters some script (in its browser, office suite, etc) the system can not render

Re: pruning the fonts list

2008-04-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
will notice and complain otherwise I'm afraid most wins are in 3. 5. 6. 7., and they depend on l10n groups telling us their wishes, which unfortunately has not happened a lot so far. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/L10N remains terribly incomplete. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: pruning the fonts list

2008-04-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 02:59 +0530, Rahul Sundaram a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 6. Have the Indic l10n group sort the huge number of indic fonts, keeping only one package per script (sarai, lohit, smc, samyak) Lohit is what we prefer by default for Indic. Everything else can

Re: Enhancing the fonts list for the KDE live images (was: Re: pruning the fonts list)

2008-04-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 19 avril 2008 à 00:36 +0200, Sebastian Vahl a écrit : I've got a similar question here for the KDE live images. At the moment our fonts list is: At first glance you could use pretty much the same advice as the live spin, except you've already followed some of it, and you have support

Re: pruning the fonts list

2008-04-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
, 19 בApril 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 18 avril 2008 à 15:57 -0400, Bill Nottingham a écrit : When looking over the LiveCD manifest, and where space is going, I can't help but notice that a lot of it goes to fonts. Here's the full list, AFAICT. The number to the left

Re: Garbled fonts in Fedora 9-Preview

2008-04-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
firefox uses which makes it loose its little mind when font files change under it. (if anyone had a bug pointer it'd be great) -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

[OT] Re: Help a little, make Fedora 10 a lot better

2008-05-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
some other language than english, It may be... but lives in the US and is stuff with A4 instead of letter. however I do not think the fact it was discussed for an English locale is incidental. It is pretty symptomatic of our community bias. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Better testing methods for Liberation Fonts?

2008-05-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
of freedesktop's text layout summits http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout to make contacts and make some publicity around Liberation. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Why generic names like Sans Serif?

2008-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
questions there or on upstream's mailing list. Fontconfig is very smart but its documentation is a tad lacking. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Updates of liberation-fonts.

2008-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
and Rahul to announce new releases. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: fonts spec template scriptlets and fontconfig dependencies/conflicts

2008-05-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
one new font package;). -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Start of Fedora 10 packaging cycle

2008-05-19 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in one go. We don't want a release to have a font package the release fontforge can not build. If all goes well liberation will join the built-from-source fonts this cycle. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list

To every cursive or fantasy font packager

2008-06-01 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
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_font_in_default_families Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description

Re: GNU Unifont update

2008-07-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
help with the review. There are lots of unclaimed fonts on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist If you have the time and interest please do not block on Unifont. Our packaging wishlist has other elements. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

[Fwd: Re: GNU Unifont update]

2008-07-02 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. There are lots of unclaimed fonts on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist If you have the time and interest please do not block on Unifont. Our packaging wishlist has other elements. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot -- Nicolas Mailhot

Fonts packaging amendment

2008-07-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
(unofficial cleaned-up font page ; I hope someone will the right accesses picks it up) Nothing earth-shattering, just a write-up of our current unwritten rules Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Debian's working on a font tarball template - please check and comment

2008-07-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Engadget, Essays1743, Isabella, Rockets, and StayPuft fonts.

2008-07-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le samedi 05 juillet 2008 à 11:10 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Le vendredi 04 juillet 2008 à 22:31 -0400, Lyos Gemini Norezel a écrit : Greetings all... I have just submitted a package with all 5 of the fonts mentioned in the subject line. The review request is listed here

Re: fonts package naming guideline

2008-07-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
this discussion?: I don't do TeX. I's sure lova for a TeX expert would join the SIG and contribute to dicussions. (tetex-fonts-hebrew, tex-fonts-hebrew, tetex-eurofont, tetex-font-cm-lgc, tetex-font-kerkis) Did I miss any? :) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: fonts package naming guideline

2008-07-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 10 juillet 2008 16:46, Felix Miata a écrit : On 2008/07/10 14:05 (GMT+0200) Nicolas Mailhot apparently typed: If I had to propose a convention today that would be foundry-name-fonts (single package) foundry-name-fonts-sub (subpackage) Great way to annoy people who use GUI package

Re: fonts package naming guideline

2008-07-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to makez that declaration. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: New front: khmeros-fonts

2008-07-15 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
packagers) you can drop all the blue frames from a font wiki page when the font is done and published. The blue frames are only there as redaction help, so you don't need to keep them long-term. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

[Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]

2008-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Message transféré De: Gustavo Ferreira À: fedora-fonts-list-request Sujet: the ivory tower and the bazaar Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:38:59 -0300 On Jul 20, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: If the free/open font scene was striving Red Hat needn't have shelled a lot

Fedora font inclusion timeline

2008-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi, For those interested by a little history, I've added a timeline in the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_inclusion_history Feel free to correct/complete it. As anyone can check until F9 we weren't very dynamic and spent our time renaming old packages. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]

2008-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
different ways, while being unable to use any language that needed more that the 26 basic latin letters. Of course not everyone has the same priorities. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]

2008-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
for older fonts. And if you can't afford to update to the latest proprietary version, bragging about its new coverage is sort of futile. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Call for OpenType fonts! [Was: Re: Fwd: [Fwd: the ivory tower and the bazaar]]

2008-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
/wiki/Fonts_inclusion_history Since I'm reaching the limits on the number of packages I can maintain in my spare time, a realistic future rate all other things being equal should be computed by removing all the packages I've done in the past from the lists). -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
converting old Type1 fonts to OTF lately (and then enhancing them). I suspect he'll tell you that's many months of work to do right but he can give you some tips on how to start. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. If the font is suitably licensed I'll certainly add it to our packaging wishlist. (sadly that does not take care of finding people to work on this list) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
equivalent, since they are created from the same sfds), change them for both fonts export the same family name (with fontconfig aliasing of the upstream name) and use the same rules as before. An example would be Old Standards. Thoughts? -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 12:23, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : I'll share my thoughts in more detail later -- I'm in a hurry now. One bit I was going to say: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I don't know what algorithm fontconfig uses to choose between

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
exception. That sucks for PDF and other font embedding users but GPL without exception fonts are allowed in the distribution. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
projects seem to prefer the GPL, which forces us to do the please add the FSF font exception circus. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: contact kurditgroup

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 13:47, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : The LGPL seems not to suffer from the GPL problems when applied to fonts (but I've not done a deep analysis, IANAL). Strangely enough it's rarely used and Free Software oriented projects seem to prefer the GPL, which forces us to do

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 11:51 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 10:53 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: 2. I don't know what algorithm fontconfig uses to choose between several formats of the same fonts, or even if its choices are stable. It uses the version number

Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
and Fedora for a while, so hopefully I'll have some experience doing this packaging work by september/october :-) We'll be very happy to help you get on board Fedora-side. We've still a lot of work to do to catch up with Debian — please do not widen the gap by starting their side :p -- Nicolas

Re: Analysis of combining diacritics support

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in these areas. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 14:36 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 20:14 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Can you patch fontconfig so apps get OTF (OpenType CFF) versions by default, unless they explicitely request OpenType TTF files? (when the same version

Re: [Fontconfig] TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 21:45, James Cloos a écrit : Nicolas == Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolas Can you patch fontconfig so apps get OTF (OpenType CFF) Nicolas versions by default, unless they explicitely request OpenType Nicolas TTF files? (when the same version

Re: Proposal: reference locl feature file

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to it (preferably using a native floss format, but I guess anything fontforge understands is ok) -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
with it. That's what we did in previous releases. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Are we really going to require fonts to be built from sources by Fedora packagers? [Was: Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?]

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
build tools not in the repo now, please package those tools. That's what I did with xgridfit when I packaged edrip. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
fonts do the same... As far as I'm concerned they can use all the proprietary tools they want as long as they do not incorporate proprietary content and their published sources can be manipulated by floss tools we can package. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: What happened to tetex-fontools?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 16:34, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : I need those to install OpenType fonts for the traditional TeX! What does Orphaned Package mean? That means the previous packager lost interest, and no one took over from him, so the package was removed from the repository -- Nicolas

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
-package I can check -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
to manage it. They even have their own smart font tech, graphite. Adobe really does not play in the same space. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: What happened to tetex-fontools?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
it reviewed quickly. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
loses patience with us font people? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Artistic1Removal Victor Gaultney may cover this aspect during his talk at the next AtypI conference: http://atypi.org/05_Petersburg/20_main_program/view_presentation_html?presentid=465 Nice pointer, thanks! -- Nicolas

Re: A PackageKit browser plugin

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
and unicode coverage, ideally autogenerated font png previews) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
your snippet and it works perfectly. It's actually a very nice trick that should be documented! I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list. Thanks but really, it's a wiki you know. Anyway: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Auto-scaling_problem_fonts Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 00:47 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: On Thursday, 24 July 2008 at 23:10, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: I'm proposing the following guidelines amendment: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/No_bundling_of_fonts_in_other_packages I'm generally

Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 13:03 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:36:40PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Frankly, the other font formats are so much less useful than modern font formats, the probability someone did creative legal restructuring is much lower. Anyway, I've

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 10:31 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: All, After the discussion on two public lists, and some public and private exchanges on IRC with people whose opinion I respect a lot, since no one proposed a problem-free way to do dual format packaging, and many objected to all

[OT] Re: Fwd: Mukti fontset license

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
of the messages you sent to various font projects. If you have the time, please contribute some of it to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/DraftUpstreamRequestEmail You seem quite capable of helping make it a terrific template. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 20:50 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: — We should not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories. TEX should use system fonts directly

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
that way if you wan to select them as non-default fonts. I suspect this didn't originate from upstream. I can't comment on this part. For me they're all wrong. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

2008-07-26 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
, the amount of changes to the fonts are pretty large so one might as well wonder if we're dealing with new digitizations) Again, this is the kind of fuzzy logic that can not stand legaly. Jerzy might have a more detailed answer since he's in charge of the licencing -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
for everyone in the SIG, so, people, if you don't want TEX messages to crowd the list, please speak up now. Best regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora

Re: TeXGyre fonts licensing concern

2008-08-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
, Liberation…), and people still abide with the original licensing. (And for the record, I doubt anyone but the GUST people find their license pretty. Legalese referensing other legalese, come on, it's not a perl obfuscation contest) Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: STIX license issues?

2008-08-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
should be shot, I'm thinking about you GUST and you Liberation lawyers). Fortunately upstream has promised OFL-ing soon (soon in STIX speak is not the on timescale you're used to, STIX happens in a strange slow-motion plane) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
at all for everyone involved. Much better to have clear conventions packagers can identify before hitting review stage. ▶▶▶ Proof of concept: Dejavu has been used to proof the concepts in rawhide (cf the wiki page) I hope those proposals will be agreeable to everyone. Regards, -- Nicolas

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-09 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
New font packagers are always welcome! Your spec is not acceptable as-is, but if you're motivated I think you'll find creating guidelines-conformant spec files is not too hard. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le dimanche 09 novembre 2008 à 12:09 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : ▶▶▶ Proof of concept: Dejavu has been used to proof the concepts in rawhide (cf the wiki page) To proof it some more I've separated the common macro, spec templates and directory definitions in a separate package

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 12:10 -0500, Bill Nottingham a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: ▶ package splits, to offer more flexibility to spin groups and fedora users ... ▶ help spins and users Wanting serif from dejavu, mono from liberation, and sans from

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
wouldn't mind being proven wrong. Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora

Re: Fedora 11 font package changes proposal (renames, splits, etc)

2008-11-11 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 17:17 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : To proof it some more I've separated the common macro, spec templates and directory definitions in a separate package, then modified three font packages to use it: — dejavu: multiple font families, multiple fontconfig files

Re: Fwd: Gnu FreeFont -- new release

2008-11-12 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in the freefont package, but this package needs to be updated and reworked to conform to guidelines freefont has a poor reputation in font design circles, where many people consider the project was too quick to add glyphs that were not always of the best quality. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Font Questions

2008-11-13 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
legacy systems few people maintain nowadays. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Desktop team brainstorming

2008-11-16 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
page. Best regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: conf.avail, rpmlint and the FHS

2008-11-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Ping? Le dimanche 26 octobre 2008 à 21:30 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Hi all, When conf.avail was introduced in fontconfig we at Fedora mostly ignored it and let font packages install their fontconfig rules directly in conf.d http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FontsSpecTemplate

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 11:33, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:11 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 18 novembre 2008 09:32, Ralf Corsepius a écrit : Please review http://nim.fedorapeople.org/rpm-fonts/rpm-fonts-1.8-1.fc11.src.rpm and the other files in this directory

Re: [LONG] The fonts SIG irregular status report

2008-11-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
. -- Nicolas Mailhot ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: [Fontconfig] conf.avail, rpmlint and the FHS

2008-11-18 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
: just as symlink targets. so I'm comfortable having fontconfig in the name (19:03:45) behdad: s/fonts.avail/conf.avail -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list

FWN article on web font surveys

2008-11-20 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
English is simple and compelling enough for the task. Best regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com

Re: FWN article on web font surveys

2008-11-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
in the stead of developpers, write articles in the stead of article writers. There is not an army of me. There is one (overbooked). Please help. -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora

Re: where's the wish list for F11?

2008-11-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
on and complete the current font packaging guideline change proposal on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Fonts_packaging_automation -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts

Re: where's the wish list for F11?

2008-11-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 21 novembre 2008 à 12:28 +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski a écrit : On Friday, 21 November 2008 at 11:34, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: But anyway you're invited like everyone else on the list to review, comment on and complete the current font packaging guideline change proposal

Re: FWN article on web font surveys

2008-11-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le vendredi 21 novembre 2008 à 12:04 +0200, Nicu Buculei a écrit : Nicolas Mailhot wrote: To avoid repeating the very unpleasant 1h30 exchange I had with infra yesterday after sending my message to fedora-news, I know my limitations. I don't have the capabilities, time, or means to set

Re: arial narrow is broken since Fedora 8

2008-12-10 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
wish from now on. I personnaly do not intend to waste my personal time trying to improve the Fedora font situation if one of the precious few levers I have at my disposition, users complaining upstream of problems, is removed. And that's the last thing I'll write on the subject. -- Nicolas Mailhot

Font package splitting clarification

2008-12-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Font package naming guidelines

2008-12-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
/Font_package_naming_(2008-12-22) Except for the comps changes which seem not baked yet, that concludes the fonts-related guidelines changes and clarifications that were proposed for F11. Sincerely, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée

Font package splitting clarification

2008-12-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
that should not be open to interpretation. Best regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman

Re: New font packaging guidelines

2008-12-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 14:56 +0200, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit : On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi Sarantis, As some of you may know, after more than a month of consultation, feedback and tweaking new font packaging guidelines have been approved

Re: New font packaging guidelines

2008-12-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 15:08 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Le lundi 22 décembre 2008 à 14:56 +0200, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit : On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 05:13:35PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Hi Sarantis, 6. However, for fonts that are bundled in a software package with no other

Re: New font packaging guidelines

2008-12-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
and repoquery are your friends) -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list

Re: fontpackages template warnings

2008-12-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 16:37, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit : Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 15:29, Sarantis Paskalis a écrit : Hello, Hi, Thank you for adapting your packages and providing feedback! I am converting my font packages to the new guidelines and hit some rpmlint warnings that appear

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] comic fonts :)

2008-12-30 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 30 décembre 2008 18:02, H a écrit : 2008/12/30 Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net Hi Hiran, Somebody wanted a free comic font? :) http://serafettin.sourceforge.net/ My font http://hiran.in/blog/rufscript-font Its just a handwriting font, not meant to be a comic one

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