https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805880
Bug ID: 1805880
Summary: Review Request: sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts - A
Nastaliq-style Arabic script font family
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01240863-sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts.spec
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01240863-sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts/sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts-2.000-1.fc33.src.rpm
Description:
Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font family supporting a wide
variety of languages of southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This
font is aimed at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq
fonts.
Nastaliq, based on a centuries-old calligraphic tradition, is considered one of
the most beautiful scripts on the planet. Nastaliq has been called “the bride
of calligraphy” but its complexity also makes it one of the most difficult
scripts to render using a computer font. Its right-to-left direction, vertical
nature, and context-specific shaping provide a challenge to any font rendering
engine and make it much more difficult to render than the flat (Naskh) Arabic
script that it is based on. As a result, font developers have long struggled to
produce a font with the correct shaping but at the same time avoid overlapping
of dots and diacritics. In order to account for the seemingly infinite
variations, the Graphite rendering engine has been extended just to handle
these complexities properly.
Fedora Account System Username: nim
One of SIL’s Non-Roman Script Initiative font families
https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Home
SIL is a specialist of rare human scripts and contributes its expertise to the
Unicode consortium. The objective is to get 100% of SIL’s font catalog in
Fedora to improve our i18n coverage.
Due to $#@= variations on how SIL publishes its fonts, the spec uses some
SIL-specific macros to hide those variations and limit the changes between the
specs of SIL fonts.
The packaging conforms to https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/935
as approved by FPC on 2020-02-13.
It is one of the test packages that were used to refine the new packaging
guidelines
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/
The new fonts packaging build chain is now live in koji. For example:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1468243
If the review is fast enough the package may make the FC32 100% Code Complete
Deadline (2020-02-25)
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html
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