Bug#343446: [Debian-in-workers] (forw) Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:09 -0600, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Christian Perrier wrote: We need people with skills regarding fonts in the Debian Installer development list. Please come on the debian-boot mailing list at lists.debian.org...or, at the minimum please followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just the bug cc'ed for now. I'm suffering from list overload. Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems whith Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems: * there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Bengali) * freefonts are used as default font for Bengali even if you include a specific font package such as ttf-bengali-fonts ([3]) Soumyadip said something to me about the situation with freefont improving but I've forgotten what it is. Soumyadip? Well, I recently had discussions with Primoz Peterlin of Freefonts. Bengali glyphs are already in place in the latest Freefonts. Hindi and Gujarati glyphs should be in, by the next release of Freefonts. I've not yet managed to contact the other teams, as my exams are on currently. I'm hoping that we'll have full support for Indic languages in Freefonts in the new year. Shouldn't be a problem anymore then -- Soumyadip Modak Mobile : 94330 65971 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://soumyadip.nipl.net/blog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#343446: [Debian-in-workers] (forw) Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts
On Thursday 15 December 2005 22:09, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: We (Debian-IN) discussed this topic in the past. Assuming we can't rely on freefont doing the right thing, our choices are 1. A single udeb containing one font for each script. 2. One seperate udeb for each script 3. A single udeb containing a superfont containing all the glyphs for all the scripts. does the installer team have any preference? The answer is: whatever is best to minimize size without having to jump through ridiculous hoops. In practice this means that overlap between different fonts should be minimized, so preferable only characters you need for _your_ script(s) in the ttf. I would think that having a single udeb for Indic scripts would work best. I think the decision whether to have a single or multiple ttf files in the udeb can best be made by yourself, maybe after a bit of experimenting. Cheers, FJP pgp3qgnQQiMK6.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#343446: [Debian-in-workers] (forw) Bug#343446: [g-i] Missing Bengali fonts
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Christian Perrier wrote: We need people with skills regarding fonts in the Debian Installer development list. Please come on the debian-boot mailing list at lists.debian.org...or, at the minimum please followup to [EMAIL PROTECTED] just the bug cc'ed for now. I'm suffering from list overload. Package: cdebconf-gtk-udeb Current g-i iso (i.e [1] for the i386 version built on 20051130) has problems whith Bengali ([2]); I tried to see what is going on and found two problems: * there are no Bengali specific fonts (there are ttf-devanagari-fonts and ttf-punjabi-fonts which do not cover Bengali) * freefonts are used as default font for Bengali even if you include a specific font package such as ttf-bengali-fonts ([3]) Soumyadip said something to me about the situation with freefont improving but I've forgotten what it is. Soumyadip? ... I also would like to know if we need all those font files or we can use just a minimal subset (LikhanNormal.ttf is ok?) Each font has the entire set of glyphs needed for a particular script so you would only need one. which could be packaged in an udeb in the future. We (Debian-IN) discussed this topic in the past. Assuming we can't rely on freefont doing the right thing, our choices are 1. A single udeb containing one font for each script. 2. One seperate udeb for each script 3. A single udeb containing a superfont containing all the glyphs for all the scripts. does the installer team have any preference? -- Jaldhar H. Vyas [EMAIL PROTECTED] La Salle Debain - http://www.braincells.com/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
