#8802: Replace the pages for oxygen fonts and Noto fonts with links to the TTF-
and-OTF page.
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Reporter: ken@… | Owner: blfs-book@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 8.0
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Keywords:
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At the moment, the TTF and OTF fonts page has some details for the fonts
used by KDE. Replace that by separate entries for Oxygen and Noto, archive
the separate pages, and link to the specific fonts in kde / plasma.
In the past, I can remember raising a ticket that the Oxygen fonts no
longer needed to be compiled because TTF files were already shipped. But I
can't find that ticket. I do recall that I noticed the md5sums for shipped
and compiled differ.
Over the last month I have spent some time looking at these fonts. After
discovering a number of other libre fonts where the authors clearly felt
that shipping source was important, I concluded that these were in the
same category.
The TTF file format contains a number of tables. The shipped version of
the file is larger, with more tables, and 'strings' shows the embedded
information about authorship and licensing is arranged differently. I
surmise that is because either it was compiled on a different platform, or
it used an earlier version of fontforge.
I also noted that in my own backups of versions I had compiled, the sizes
differed slightly. Using 'strings' I discovered that the date of
compilation is held within the file, which accounts for that difference,
but also that one or two other bytes which could be regarded as text by
'strings' sometimes differed.
I now feel strongly that there is nothing to be gained by wasting cycles
compiling the oxygen fonts - users on other OS's can just install the
TTFs, and since we do the same thing for all other fonts I see no reason
to require KDE builders to install fontforge.
For Noto fonts, the outline details in the TTF and OTF fonts page are
pretty much adequate. Maybe suggest that people using Noto might wish to
tune fontconfig to add aliases for any additional Noto fonts they
installed, so that if Noto Sans is asked for and the required codepoint is
provided by a different Noto font, that other font will be used.
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