-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2007-3945 2007-11-29 01:43:08.002822 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts Product : Fedora 8 Version : 20070415 Release : 2.fc8 URL : http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces18th.html Summary : GFS Bodoni Classic oblique Greek font Description : Giambattista Bodoni was the most prolific Italian typecutter of the 18th century. While he worked in the Vatican Press he was involved in the typecutting of “exotic” languages for which catholic literature was printed. When he established his own press in Parma he did publish many books of the classics with his own Greek typefaces in the last quarter of the 18th century. He was among the first European typecutters to move away from the byzantine cursive tradition with the numerous ligatures which was the norm until then. His Greek types influenced many subsequent designers, yet they fell in disuse by the middle of the 19th century. GFS presented Bodoni's original Greek typeface in the commemorative edition of Pindar's Olympian Odes (2004), in digital version by George D. Matthiopoulos, and is now available as free ware for the general public. In the OpenType features, under ligatures, one may alternately use diphthongs with the accents placed in between the characters, as Giambattista Bodoni did when setting greek texts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Updated packages: 81f459e2ab5033545c1477206ebd8fe771ae0d9b gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts-20070415-2.fc8.noarch.rpm 145e07ed78bbc505962b9d625a9e16376fadd62e gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts-20070415-2.fc8.src.rpm This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gfs-bodoni-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
