-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3945 2007-11-29 01:43:08.002822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gfs-porson-fonts Product : Fedora 8 Version : 20060908 Release : 3.fc8 URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces19th.html Summary : GFS Porson Greek font Description : In England, during the 1790’s, Cambridge University Press decided to procure a new set of Greek types. The university’s great scholar of Classics, Richard Porson was asked to produce a typeface based on his handsome handwriting and Richard Austin was commissioned to cut the types. The type was completed in 1808, after the untimely death of Porson the previous year. Its success was immediate and since then the classical editions in Great Britain and the U.S.A. use it, almost invariably. In 1913, Monotype released the typeface with some corrections, notably replacing the upright capitals suggested by Porson with inclined ones. In Greece the typeface was used under the name Pelasgika type. GFS Porson is based on the Monotype version, though using upright capitals, as in the original. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: b908afb249f85d54829d3fce236062b0616d7403 gfs-porson-fonts-20060908-3.fc8.noarch.rpm 27c50990e5e1b4ad6b62abcabe9a5ed70e69c292 gfs-porson-fonts-20060908-3.fc8.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gfs-porson-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
