On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 06:34:59PM +0700, Robert M Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 10:10:26AM +0100, Samuel Mehrbrodt wrote: > > > Hi Robert, > > > > > > I think there is no formal process when to include a new font. If it > > makes > > > sense, it's ok. Fonts are not that big. > > > > Fonts CAN be that big :) Look at TeX Live, of its 3.5 GB install, 1.4 GB > > are fonts. > > > > My hope is to not add more than a few KB per font, if at all possible. Font > language support shouldn't be 'include 9 million glyphs of various artistic > types and what-not'. We just need basic support for Thai, Khmer, and Lao, > so the simpler / smaller, the better. If they want some other font, they > should install it IMHO. Hopefully, someday, there'll be a nice all language > font that isn't too big. Until then... > > Another Q - where exactly am I patching? When I helped with the ICU update, > a archive was added to the web server and the download.list was used. In > that case, the only patch would be for the download.list. Or, should we > have a font contribution subfolder/submodule that contains each font in the > master that contains all of the embedded fonts? That way in review process, > people can look at the font and determine if it's a good idea to add and is > open and etc...
Check external/more_fonts/* Regards, Khaled _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
