Hi Marguerite, On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:03:24 +0800 Marguerite Su <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Do we have a package for them? > > Yes, package name "wqy-microhei-fonts` in OSS, developed at M17N:fonts This is good news! > > If I'm not mistaken, this is the "old approach" to define and use > > fonts in FOP. I had the impression that you don't have to create > > metrics files anymore. FOP searches all fonts for you. > > > > Could you try to do the same, but without any metrics? > > Oh yes, I commented fop.xconf and they still work well. Brilliant! According to the link that I've sent you, FOP 1.1 doesn't need metrics anymore. So I guess it's better to avoid them altogether. > > [...] it was a copy and paste error. > > I see, then I'll SR a patch to suse-xsl-stylesheets. As they're not on > git, I can just open a ticket on sf. Please do. :) We could add that as a requirement/recommendation for the suse-xsl-stylesheet package. > > These are commercial fonts. As I'm not familiar with Chinese and its > > typography, could you recommend a good Chinese font? Preferably open > > source. :)) > > > > I recommend wqy-*-fonts. Good. I guess we need all, right? > wqy(文泉驿) is the main open source project for Chinese fonts: > > http://wenq.org/wqy2/index.cgi?Home > > led by Chinese students in MIT. They provided an easy to use web > interface to create fonts. Every user can contribute, thus their fonts > covered a lot more glyphs than any commerical fonts. BTW, the Chinese > part of Google Droid fonts are based on this project. > > Actually modern linux (sles needs to be stable, so it's a little > "old") all use their fonts as default. > > And using wqy can avoid the problem that you have to install > "FZSongTi", then openSUSE automatcially set it as your ugly display > font. FZ fonts are used for printing, they didn't display well on > LC/EDs. Thanks for the information, I didn't know. :) > > Could you send us your fixes? Just to let you know, tomorrow is a > > public holiday in Germany and I'm not here for the next 3 weeks. > > Probably one of my collegues will take and submit your patches. > > Sure. I'll fix suse-xsl-stylesheets and susedoc. You can omit susedoc as this is really too old and we don't support that anymore. Any fixes should go into daps or suse-xsl-stylesheets packages now. > Holiday is the 1st priority, so just enjoy life. fixes can wait. :-)) Thanks. If you submit your changes today, I can look at them and approve them. -- Gruß/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com | HRB 21284 SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
