Re: [Fontconfig] TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 23 juillet 2008 21:45, James Cloos a écrit : Nicolas == Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nicolas Can you patch fontconfig so apps get OTF (OpenType CFF) Nicolas versions by default, unless they explicitely request OpenType Nicolas TTF files? (when the same version of the

Re: Proposal: reference locl feature file

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 01:43, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : It's surprisingly hard to find good information on how the locl OpenType feature should be handled for various languages. I propose we add a well commented reference fea file somewhere on the Fedora wiki. Well, it's a wiki. Just to it

Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 01:11, Dave Crossland a écrit : 2008/7/23 Martin-Gomez Pablo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So we need to add a suffix to the name but I'm not imaginative for finding a good suffix (maybe iced as Nicolas propose), anyone of you have an lightning idea ? Why not use a build of FF

Fwd: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts?

2008-07-24 Thread Vasile Gaburici
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:51 AM Subject: Re: TTF/OTF packaging thoughts? To: Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree with all your points. Regarding point 7, I'm going to emphasize, as you did previously, that

Re: Are we really going to require fonts to be built from sources by Fedora packagers? [Was: Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?]

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi, We do not require fonts to be built from source. We ask packagers to build font from sources when those sources are available unless they have a very good reason not to. However once upon a time, we didn't require fonts to be modifiable. When enough modifiable fonts became available policy

Re: Are we really going to require fonts to be built from sources by Fedora packagers? [Was: Re: Suffix for Old Standard ?]

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: non-free tools like FontLab ... free-beer tools like Adobe FDK That a proprietary program is distributed at zero price is not important; that it is proprietary is what matters :-) I think we'll try to bump the fontforge version in fedora-devel to

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 16:37, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : Chances are that these are newer incarnations of the shady package I found. I'm saying this because Adobe's Thomas Phinney said on typophile that the shady package most likely used Adobe FDK. As you can see from their fea file, the gyre

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Vasile Gaburici
I suspect that their fonts are based on the visual designs, but not raw data of the URW fonts, otherwise GUST would be bound by the GPL, and could not change the license... As you know, font looks cannot be copyrighted in the U.S. (not sure about Europe though). So, the main question is: can

Re: What happened to tetex-fontools?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 16:34, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : I need those to install OpenType fonts for the traditional TeX! What does Orphaned Package mean? That means the previous packager lost interest, and no one took over from him, so the package was removed from the repository -- Nicolas

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Vasile Gaburici
Well, in that case Fedora is in trouble already. The gyre OpenType fonts are already shipped by Fedora in a TeXLive package, just not used by pango! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qif /usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/tex-gyre/texgyrepagella-regular.otf Name: texlive-texmf-fonts

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, in that case Fedora is in trouble already. The gyre OpenType fonts are already shipped by Fedora in a TeXLive package, just not used by pango! TeXLive has been stripping out non-free fonts from other TeX distributions, so perhaps those guys

Re: Increasing point size of Meera font using fontconfig

2008-07-24 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi again, I tested your snippet and it works perfectly. It's actually a very nice trick that should be documented! I'm CC'ing fedora-fonts-list. Here's the snippet to adjust font size for a family. ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd fontconfig !-- multiply the matrix of

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 17:51, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : Well, in that case Fedora is in trouble already. The gyre OpenType fonts are already shipped by Fedora in a TeXLive package, just not used by pango! Oh, great I hate people that ship fonts without making a proper separate font

Fwd: [Bug 456582] Review Request: tex-fontools - Tools for handling fonts with LaTeX and fontinst

2008-07-24 Thread Vasile Gaburici
Maybe somebody on this list is willing to sponsor me on this package: -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:43 PM Subject: [Bug 456582] Review Request: tex-fontools - Tools for handling fonts with LaTeX and fontinst To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 22:52, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : It uses *lots* of multiple (ligature-type) substitutions, sprinkled with some context-based substitutions, and some single substitutions in multiple ccmp tables (some tables are class-based, some glyph based). It's unlike any of the

Re: What happened to tetex-fontools?

2008-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Jeu 24 juillet 2008 20:55, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : I found the answer on the wiki: I should call it tex-fontools. Vasile: you should really CC the maintainers of other TEX-related packages to your bugzilla request, and make some noise on the fedora-devel mailing list about it if you want

Re: The goose OpenType eggs holds...

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I suspect that their fonts are based on the visual designs, but not raw data of the URW fonts, otherwise GUST would be bound by the GPL, I think the GUST guys have infringed the GPL. Not 100% sure, but I

Re: Had a look at Charis SIL

2008-07-24 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/24 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone know if they have their own production tools? They do, and they depend somewhat on proprietary software (FontLab) but SIL have been slowly publishing them, I think. -- Regards, Dave ___

[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

2008-07-24 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Issue 43029] support PS-OpenType/OTF/(SFNT with CFF) fonts for PDF export and printing

2008-07-24 Thread nmailhot
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43029 --- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jul 24 13:03:41 + 2008 --- After some discussion, the consensus Fedora-side seems to be that shipping

[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Issue 43029] support PS-OpenType/OTF/(SFNT with CFF) fonts for PDF export and printing

2008-07-24 Thread nmailhot
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[Issue 43029] support PS-OpenType/OTF/(SFNT with CFF) fonts for PDF export and printing

2008-07-24 Thread hdu
To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=43029 User hdu changed the following: What|Old value |New value

[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 455981] Missing locl romanian magic

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[Bug 456580] Multiple severe problems with texlive-texfm-fonts

2008-07-24 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 456345] Review Request: sportrop-fonts - A multiline decorative font

2008-07-24 Thread bugzilla
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[Bug 456527] Review Request: gentium-basic-fonts - Gentium Basic Font Family

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[Bug 456582] Review Request: tex-fontools - Tools for handling fonts with LaTeX and fontinst

2008-07-24 Thread bugzilla
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