-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3945 2007-11-29 01:43:08.002822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gfs-didot-classic-fonts Product : Fedora 8 Version : 20070415 Release : 1.fc8 URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces19th.html Summary : GFS Didot Classic Greek font Description : Under the influence of the neoclassical ideals of the late 18th century, the famous French typecutter Firmin Didot in Paris designed a new Greek typeface (1805) which was immediately used in the publishing programme of Adamantios Korai, the prominent intellectual figure of the Greek diaspora and leading scholar of the Greek Enlightenment. The typeface eventually arrived in Greece, with the field press which came with Didot’s grandson Ambroise Firmin Didot, during the Greek Revolution in 1821. Since then the typeface has enjoyed an unrivaled success as the type of choice for almost every kind of publication until the last decades of the 20th century. Didot's original type design, as it is documented in publications during the first decades of the 19th century, was digitized and revived by George D. Matthiopoulos in 2006 for a project of the Department of Literature in the School of Philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki, and is now available for general use. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 1b028f3d850820b3f5d369157428e23749c1f3e5 gfs-didot-classic-fonts-20070415-1.fc8.noarch.rpm c235b391e43577aed68bfb7cf004d4cb612b5c6a gfs-didot-classic-fonts-20070415-1.fc8.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gfs-didot-classic-fonts' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
