Le mercredi 24 mars 2010 à 18:25 +0100, François Revol a écrit : > > > Something else that might be useful is adding fonts, though it > > > might be > > > abused to include non-free fonts even unintentionally... > > > > > Is a font a theme? I need to think this over. > > As for non-free themes, they're supported by universal themes in the > > same way that GNU Emacs supports writing closed or open source code. > > > Well, most themes usually want distinctive fonts. > Usually it's done by people who don't really care about licences though > or disregard them as they make them up just for themselves first (as I > did), and just take whichever TTF they find on the net that match their > liking.
Therefore, please do *not* specify a new font deployment system. A theme can reference specific fonts (css-like, via font names), but if you start deploying font files outside the normal system-wide font management layer, this is going to clash/be incoherent with the remapping/configuring done at this level, and is going to fail horribly as soon as you try to use it for anything but trivial ascii-only scripts. Do *not* assume you can just specify font needs with ascii-only European languages in mind, and shoehorn i18n/opentype typographic features later trivialy. This won't work. Modern font use is very complex and best left to dedicated management systems. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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