-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3945 2007-11-29 01:43:08.002822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gfs-olga-fonts Product : Fedora 8 Version : 20060908 Release : 1.fc8 URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces20th.html Summary : GFS Olga experimental oblique Greek font Description : In Greece the terms italic and oblique have the same meaning since they are borrowed from the latin typographic practice without any real historical equivalent in Greek history. Until the end of the 19th century Greek typefaces were cut and cast indepedently, not as members of a typefamily. The mechanisation of typecutting allowed the transformation of upright Greek typefaces to oblique designs. Nonetheless, the typesetting practice of a cursive Greek font to complement an upright one did not survive the 19th century. The experimental font GFS Olga (1995) attempts to revive this lost tradition. The typeface was designed and digitised by George Matthiopoulos, based on the historical Porson Greek type (1803) with the intention to be the companion of the upright GFS Didot font whenever there is a need for an italic alternative. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 993e3e48c9969aa6690bb338f192031c341a69d5 gfs-olga-fonts-20060908-1.fc8.noarch.rpm 3680ff135edfbeffa98cd235407f6372f4b0b40d gfs-olga-fonts-20060908-1.fc8.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gfs-olga-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
