Re: Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-29 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org wrote: To have a software that generate a list of suitable fonts for a user would also require something more specific than tags. An example that Arne made was

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-29 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Charles Plessy wrote: Le Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:31:39PM +0100, Enrico Zini a écrit : Tag: font::style:serif Description: Serif style Tag: font::style:sans-serif Description: Sans-serif style Hi Enrico, Maybe the description could be extended to include the ‘Ming’ and

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-29 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, after an IRC discussion with Arne Goetje (Ubuntu i18n and l10n engineer), we have worked out a proposal for new tags for font information. Hi, This sounds great and will be extremely useful as we get more and more DFSG-compliant open fonts released and packaged

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-29 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, just a quick note, I'm currently at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Barcelona, Spain. We will have a session on font issues this afternoon. If we have enough time, we might discuss this topic there. The schedule is here:

Re: Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-29 Thread Erich Schubert
Hello all, Please don't forget that one of the design goals of DebTags was the KISS principle. (iso639::sr iso15924::Latn iso15924::Cyrl ! rfc4647::sr-Latn-SR) this definitely doesn't qualify as KISS, in particular since this would probably only apply to a single for within a package, and a

Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-28 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, after an IRC discussion with Arne Goetje (Ubuntu i18n and l10n engineer), we have worked out a proposal for new tags for font information. New proposed facets: Facet: iso15924 Description: Writing script (discussed in the other mail about replacing culture::*) Facet: font

Re: Debtags localisation and font tags proposal

2009-05-28 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:31 AM, Enrico Zini enr...@enricozini.org wrote: To have a software that generate a list of suitable fonts for a user would also require something more specific than tags. An example that Arne made was of a font which contains latin and cyrilic characters, but misses