[opensuse-factory] Ubuntu Font Family
Hi, I've packaged ubuntu-font-family a few times, but this packages were made not from the source code, but from the generated .ttf files available for download on Ubuntu Fonts site; I think it would be interesting to have such package on openSUSE as this fonts provide first class hinting and are actually very sweet (awesome alternative for Droid or even M$ fonts). Can we ship those fonts (repackaged from the .ttf) or do we need to build them for scratch? Any ideas to which project I should submit the package ? NM -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
2012/9/6 Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com>:
Hi, The project for fonts is M17N:Fonts. Another interesting font that has nice hinting and is already packaged is oxygen-fonts Regards, Luiz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
By the way as an update; I've submitted the fonts earlier on to M17N:fonts (which is actually the real name of the repo) but it was declined because Marguerite had submitted it first. Currently there's a small issue with our software which doesn't recognize the Ubuntu Font Licence 1.0 (under which the fonts are licensed); I assume this needs some legal review and some patching on rpmlint; eventually sqpx should be updated ? NM 2012/9/6 Luiz Fernando Ranghetti <elchevive68@gmail.com>:
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On Thursday 2012-09-06 17:38, Nelson Marques wrote:
A font is not just made of hints, but also curves and strokes. Of the very latter, UF is "missing" quite some, like in the lowercase 't'. Furthermore, it does away with protruding stems, cf. the 'n'. I am aware someone architected it that way on purpose, but it's going in the direction of being more of a decorative font rather than something that suits general readability, IMO. (That of course does not touch the technical aspects of packaging and using it for oneself.)
Can we ship those fonts (repackaged from the .ttf) or do we need to build them for scratch?
Looking at other packages, it is permissible to ship ttfs/otfs. You don't have to go to all lengths - to make an example, consider .pdf documentation in a tarball that has been gratitiously generated from .tex files in the same. Even if the so-precious "source" tex files went AWOL, you could, within reasonable boundaries, approximately recreate them anew (copy and paste the text, and manually redo the layouting).-- With compiled programs, such a procedure to create a source that approximates the original copy's is not nearly as easy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:38:51 +0100 Nelson Marques wrote:
Can we ship those fonts (repackaged from the .ttf) or do we need to build them for ?
http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts#Building_from_Sources Sometimes it doesn't work. I have an experience with thessalonica fonts. The author has compiled the fonts using FontForge from git and something else. Next is in Russian:
So, we use compiled fonts. -- WBR Kyrill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
I've already done that in M17N:fonts and add review for babelworx, our license digger, but seems he's on vacation. Marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Marguerite Su <i@marguerite.su> wrote:
He reviewed 2 of my SRs to factory yesterday. I suspect that with the release of 12.2, factory is being flooded with SRs he has to review. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org
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Marguerite Su -
Nelson Marques