2008/7/2 C. Scott Ananian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would expect it to be the same as the Debian package ttf-thai-tlwg, >> but if not, then you have a new resource. >> >> Thai fonts in TrueType format >> This package provides some free-licensed fonts that are >> enhanced by developpers from Thai Linux Working Group. >> In TrueType format. >> >> At the moment, it provides two families from the National Font >> Project (Garuda, Norasi), one from NECTEC (Loma) and three >> developed by TLWG itself (Tlwg Mono, Tlwg Typewriter, Purisa). >> >> http://www.nida.gov.kh/activities/localization/thai.pdf > > Seems like it. The Redhat package also has fonts named Kinnari, > Sawasdee, Umpush, and Waree, as well as one named 'TlwgTypist' (which > is different from the TlwgTypewriter font, also included). These > extra fonts are probably why the new redhat package is ~1M larger than > the old package included in 708 and earlier. > > Do we need all these fonts? I'll admit to not being an expert on Thai > typography, but the Thai fonts now comprise more than 50% of the fonts > on the pulldown menu in Write.
Do you have Cyrillic, Amharic, Khmer, Dari (extended Arabic), and Nepali (Devanagari)? > Latin languages look the poorer for > only having the three basic DejaVu fonts (Serif, Sans, Sans Mono, and > another Serif). There certainly are other Free Latin alphabet fonts. Bitstream Vera Dustin Freefont Liberation (Red Hat) > The wikipedia pangram page suggests > เป็นมนุษย์สุดประเสริฐเลิศคุณค่า กว่าบรรดาฝูงสัตว์เดรัจฉาน > จงฝ่าฟันพัฒนาวิชาการ อย่าล้างผลาญฤๅเข่นฆ่าบีฑาใคร > ไม่ถือโทษโกรธแช่งซัดฮึดฮัดด่า หัดอภัยเหมือนกีฬาอัชฌาสัย > ปฏิบัติประพฤติกฎกำหนดใจ พูดจาให้จ๊ะๆ จ๋าๆ น่าฟังเอยฯ > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram#Other_languages ) > might be an appropriate text to use to verify proper font support? > > (It does display correctly on joyride-2098, but the Pangram page > indicates that we are missing fonts for Dzongkha (language of Bhutan), > Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. These fonts are in the > packages 'fonts-hebrew' (1M), 'fonts-japanese' (22M!), 'fonts-chinese' > (24M!) and 'fonts-korean' (18M!); hopefully these's a subset of the > japanese/chinese/korean fonts which is lighter weight!) Yes, but you aren't going to get away with much less than 10M each. > --scott > > -- > ( http://cscott.net/ ) > -- Edward Cherlin End Poverty at a Profit by teaching children business http://www.EarthTreasury.org/ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it."--Alan Kay _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
