January 2012 - openSUSE M17n - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-m17n] Re: [opensuse-packaging] Web Font Formats: Where to install?
by Thomas Schraitle 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi Michael, > [...] > > IMHO they should be separated, but no other dir seems to fit. Where > > do I install such files? > > Given that OpenType, Embedded OpenType and Web Open Font Format are > just slightly fancy version of TrueType, the truetype/ directory > seems appropriate, no need for directory inflation. Ok, thanks. I'll use the truetype dir when I get my hands on Web fonts again. :) > I wouldn't package the svg variant at all, as they aren't really > usable with normal font rendering engines (unlike truetype), it seems > they were invented for embedding them (or parts of them) in webpages. Yes, SVG fonts are quite... unique. Thanks for your answer. -- Gruß/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/thomas-schraitle/ SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-m17n] Re: [opensuse-packaging] Web Font Formats: Where to install?
by Takashi Iwai 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

At Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:24 +0100 (CET), Michael Matz wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2012, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > > * Michael Matz <matz(a)suse.de> [2012-01-30 13:36]: > > > > > > Given that OpenType, Embedded OpenType and Web Open Font Format are just > > > slightly fancy version of TrueType, > > > > That's not 100 % correct. There are TrueType-OTF fonts (quadratic > > splines), normally .ttf and Type1/Postscript-OTF (cubic splines) fonts, > > normally .otf. > > > > However, I think that detail is negligible for packaging. :) > > As I said, slightly fancy (which for Type1/PS actually means un-fancy ;) ) Heh, the argument can be religious :) Installing in /usr/share/fonts/truetype would be most convenient, IMO, too, as freetype and others look up this directory as the primary location. SVG is a different thing, and I also don't think we need it. Or, if any, provide it in an individual package. Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-m17n] Web Font Formats: Where to install?
by Thomas Schraitle 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi, during my font packaging for M17N:fonts, I've come across an installation issue for Web fonts. For example, let's consider the St Marie[1] font. It is such a "Web font"[2] and is published in several Web font formats as SVG[3], EOT[4], and Woff[5]. The current root directory to search for fonts is /usr/share/fonts. It contains several subdirectories whereas truetype and Type1 are certainly the best known/most used. But... there is no directory for SVG, EOT, and Woff files. IMHO they should be separated, but no other dir seems to fit. Where do I install such files? Thanks! ----- References [1] http://www.behance.net/gallery/St-Marie/551975 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_fonts [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_OpenType [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woff -- Gruß/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/thomas-schraitle/ SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-m17n] M17N:fonts: Google Webfonts and a Hg Repo
by toms＠suse.de 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Hi, just to let you know about some changes in the M17N fonts directory that I did recently and some information that I've found. :) It might be interesting for other packagers in this regard. The repo contains now 66 fonts with different styles covering several languages. Not all of them are submitted to Factory. Over the weekend I've submitted some new fonts from the Google Webfonts[1] page. Most of them came from my OBS repo, so it was just a copy and some cleanup necessary. What is/was always challenging is the current version of the font. Is there a more up-to-date version of the font available? Unfortunatly, this information was not displayed on the page anymore. Maybe it was. During packaging, I've stumpled over the corresponding Mercurial repo[2] of the Google Webfonts. It's clearly structured, some contains even a SFD file for FontForge. If you want to know the latest changes, watch for a FONTLOG.txt. There you can see all things that has been changed recently. The Mercurial repo makes it easier for us packagers. Hope this small info helps others. Have fun! ----- [1] http://www.google.com/webfonts [2] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Caveat: Pretty big, 1.2G(!) -- Gruß/Regards, Thomas Schraitle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH (o< Maxfeldstrasse 5 /\\ Documentation Specialist 90409 Nuernberg, Germany _\_v http://www.suse.com http://lizards.opensuse.org/author/thomas-schraitle/ SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-m17n] What name for a package with a collection of fonts?
by Takashi Iwai 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi, now I'm looking at some font packages like fonts-arabic and free-ttf-fonts, and wonder which naming rule should be applied to these. They are collections of various fonts. So, what came to my mind is something like "misc-arabic-fonts". But not well convincing. Any better naming rule for font collection packages? thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-m17n] Renaming font packages
by Takashi Iwai 18 Jan '12

18 Jan '12

Hi, recently Thomas Schraitle and I have been working on the renaming of font packages in a standard naming scheme. The discussion is found in FATE 313035. As the result, the Wiki page is created and we started converting a few packages. The detail is found in: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts Now, we'd like to ask someone volunteering this work together with us. The job is relatively easy. You'll copy a package from M17N to M17N:fonts with a new package name, rename files, modify spec file for the renaming procedure appropriately. The detail is found in the page above. The font list is found in http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Fonts:Fontlist You can see many packages are still not converted yet. If anyone is interested, even anyone has any objection to this action, let me know. If you'd like to join, I can assign you to the maintainer of M17N:fonts project. Once when all conversions are done, the packages should be merged to FACTORY. Then we're going to remove the old packages from M17N project. I believe this is a better way than keeping the old packages forever. But if you have other opinion, please speak up. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-m17n+owner(a)opensuse.org

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