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Simos Xenitellis | 1 Nov 2008 14:42

Re: Russian vowels with accents

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:39 PM, T. S. <((>< <tiborec <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd like to type the russian vowels with acute accent symbol ( ´ )
> over the top of the russian vowels (а е и о у ы э ю я), as one
> character. The problem is, that those characters are not included in
> the current version of Unicode. For now I use instead of them
> characters with diaeresis, but there aren't all of them: ӓ é ӥ ӧ ӱ ӹ
> ӭ, but ю and я are missing.
> Is there any simple way how to add those characters to DejaVu or any
> other font? Or better - how to add these to future version of Unicode?
> I don't have any experience with this.
> Thanks a lot,
> Tibor

DejaVu has the necessary characters in order to display the characters
you are mentioning.
What is needed is support in the input methods to type such characters.
What is missing is a list of those characters that do get diacritic
marks. There has been
a request for these but no reply yet. If you think you can produce
such a list, it would be great.

If you feel like testing, you can create a ~/.XCompose file with contents:

<asterisk>			: "Hello, world!"
<dead_diaeresis> <U044F>		: "я̈"

Then, in a Terminal window, type

export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim

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JC John SESE Cuneta (Shixi XIE | 5 Nov 2008 11:27

<at> font-face License Inquiry

Good Morning,

   I would like to ask as to the Licensing of DejaVu fonts for use for <at> font-face as well as to the hosting of the font under the domain of the website where it is going to be used for <at> font-face.

   As I understand, the use of <at> font-face is not really "embedding" per se even though in the font's properties it says "Installable embedding allowed". I also checked the License page on the wiki but I haven't seen anything that has to do with <at> font-face.

   Thank you very much and more power.

Best Regards,
JC John SESE Cuneta (謝施洗)
Philippines, Asean Community

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JC John SESE Cuneta (Shixi XIE | 5 Nov 2008 11:31

<at> font-face License Inquiry

Good Morning,

   I would like to ask as to the Licensing of DejaVu fonts for use for <at> font-face as well as to the hosting of the font under the domain of the website where it is going to be used for <at> font-face.

   As I understand, the use of <at> font-face is not really "embedding" per se even though in the font's properties it says "Installable embedding allowed". I also checked the License page on the wiki but I haven't seen anything that has to do with <at> font-face.

   Thank you very much and more power.

Best Regards,
JC John SESE Cuneta (謝施洗)
Philippines, Asean Community

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(Building, Engaging, Empowering)

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Nicolas Mailhot | 5 Nov 2008 13:10

Re: <at> font-face License Inquiry


Le Mer 5 novembre 2008 11:27, JC John SESE Cuneta (Shixi XIE) a écrit :
> Good Morning,

Good morning

>    I would like to ask as to the Licensing of DejaVu fonts for use for
>  <at> font-face as well as to the hosting of the font under the domain of
> the website where it is going to be used for  <at> font-face.

The licensing of Dejavu is largely inherited from the licensing of
Bistream Vera and as such can not be modified without Bitstream
cooperation. Therefore the text of the DejaVu license is unlikely to
be modified to clarify the situation WRT new concepts such as
 <at> font-face. This licensing text pre-empts any other statement you may
get (either there, in a wiki, a forum, etc).

If Bitstream could agree to re-licence Vera we'd probably ask to
switch to a standard FLOSS font license such as the OFL, the LGPL, or
the GPL with font exception.

That being said the Vera licensing is very liberal and probably does
not include the  <at> font-face incompatibilities typical in proprietary
font licenses. However, if you want a legal opinion, you should ask an
actual lawyer to analyse the Vera license.

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Ben Laenen | 5 Nov 2008 13:21

Re: <at> font-face License Inquiry

On Wednesday 05 November 2008, JC John SESE Cuneta (Shixi XIE) wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
>    I would like to ask as to the Licensing of DejaVu fonts for use
> for  <at> font-face as well as to the hosting of the font under the domain
> of the website where it is going to be used for  <at> font-face.

Everyone is free to redistribute the fonts, so direct linking or 
embedded as EOT is both allowed.

Greetings
Ben

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Nicolas Mailhot | 8 Nov 2008 19:44

Fontconfig files rework

Hi,

I had to rework the dejavu fontconfig files a bit to support the package
split that will be used in Fedora 11.

Please review the resulting patch and apply.

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/dejavu-fonts/dejavu-fonts-2.26-fontconfig.patch?view=log

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Ben Laenen | 11 Nov 2008 12:53

Re: Fontconfig files rework

On Saturday 08 November 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had to rework the dejavu fontconfig files a bit to support the
> package split that will be used in Fedora 11.
>
> Please review the resulting patch and apply.

I assume they work nicely  Patch committed.

Greetings
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Nicolas Mailhot | 11 Nov 2008 13:41

Re: Fontconfig files rework

Le mardi 11 novembre 2008 à 12:53 +0100, Ben Laenen a écrit :
> On Saturday 08 November 2008, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I had to rework the dejavu fontconfig files a bit to support the
> > package split that will be used in Fedora 11.
> >
> > Please review the resulting patch and apply.
> 
> I assume they work nicely  Patch committed.

No one complained so far and it's just a re-shuffling of the old rules
(killed a few condensed rules since now we have them under the same
family they're not necessary anymore)

Thanks for the commit.

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Dave Crossland | 11 Nov 2008 17:21

Open Font Library wants to host your fonts for <at> font-face web

Hi!

Last week, "Hendry" asked on IRC if the DejaVu TTF were on a central
website so that they would be easily linkable via  <at> font-face CSS. He
also posted a photo on flickr of a Google Android phone using Andika
via  <at> font-face at http://flickr.com/photos/hendry/3014049284/

His suggestion that there is a need to have Free fonts hosted
centrally, so people can link it in their style sheets easily, is a
good one - and the Open Font Library (OFLB) project at
http://openfontlibrary.org hopes to do just this! 

The project is currently developing a new version you can see at
http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org - which generates CSS snippets to
use fonts uploaded to it.

We need PHP developers to help with this, so if anyone is interested
in making the OFLB's new version really great, and help make web
typography leap forward, please either join the OFLB mailing list, or
mail me offlist.

Cheers,
Dave

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Dave Crossland | 11 Nov 2008 17:21

Wiki image problem, Testing page broken

Hi,

http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page has an error,
"Error creating thumbnail: Screenshot" and the Testing page at
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Testing is also broken.

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