[announcement] Code2000 font switched license from shareware to GPLv3+FE || OFL

Hi all,

Great news! The author of the Code2000 pan-Unicode font has recently
switched the font to being licensed under the GNU GPLv3. During the
discussions where I attempted to verify the license and get commit
access to the project, James granted dual licensing under the GPLv3+FE
and the SIL OFL. Unfortunately he wants to keep the code2000.sf.net
project as a historic and no-longer developed project and have us fork
the project, hosting it elsewhere.

My initial plans for the project are:

      * pick a name for the fork, C2K was suggested during the
        discussion
      * pick a site for hosting the fork, add Thierry, myself and anyone
        else who wants to join the project
      * setup a git repository and import the current binary TTF release
      * convert the binary TTF files into UFO format, which seems to be
        a more cross-vendor format than SFD, commit that to git.
        According to the current release, "All fonts are created from
        scratch natively in TTF format inside FontCreator 6.0".
      * cleanup and add documentation about the licensing
      * package it for Debian and encourage other distros to package it
      * blog about the freeing of the font and get that on LWN/etc
      * look for contributors and watch for bug reports

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Korean default font change (un-core-*-fonts -> nanum-*-fonts)

Hi,

I heard that Ubuntu is going to change the default Korean font from
un-core to nanum within their P release cycle:

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.discuss/13090
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/836430

Since I maintain both font packages in Fedora, I would like to ask
Korean users whether it is a good thing to do as well in F17.

AFAIK, the only concern discussed there was that they dropped
nanum-coding font (a monospace variant of nanum-gothic, distributed as a
separate upstream tarball) from the default install, due to size
limitation.  I guess we could also simply mark it as optional in comps
(like un-extra-*-fonts).

Regards,
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[Fwd: Orphaned packages]

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Objet:    Orphaned packages
De:       "Michal Nowak"
Date:     Mar 29 novembre 2011 11:28
À:
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I've just orphaned following packages:

* xcb-util
* gnome-colors-icon-theme (and retired)
* khmeros-fonts
* kurdit-unikurd-web-fonts
* libev
* libxdg-basedir
* monkeysphere (I guess Bernie needs co-maintainer)

Feel free to take them.

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Need to rebuild fonts packages

Hi,

Due to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=757105,
some font packages needs to be rebuilt to add font(lang=...)
back to its Provides line, with rpm-4.9.1.2-5.fc17 or
similar coming next week for f16, maybe for f15 as well.

I just wrote a small tool to check this deps and attached a
log. please check it out if your package is there. the log
file contains the package name doesn't have font(:lang=...)
and current Provides lines.

When the updated rpm package is available, I'll file a bug
for font packages not yet rebuilding with it.

TIA,
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artwiz-aleczapka-fonts-0:1.3-11.fc15.noarch:
artwiz-aleczapka-fonts = 1.3-11.fc15

baekmuk-bdf-fonts-0:2.2-10.fc17.noarch:
baekmuk-bdf-fonts = 2.2-10.fc17

bicon-fonts-0:0.2.0-2.fc15.noarch:
bicon-fonts = 0.2.0-2.fc15

Request for feedbacks: fc-xmlgen

Hi,

I'm willing to introduce a small tool[1] to generate the
fontconfig config file from the font, according to our font
packaging policy[2].

This tool supports to generate:

 * Font substitution rule[3]

 * Generic names rule

 * Locale-specific overrides rule[4]

I'd like to add it into the macro from fontpackages in the
future if it's suitable and reasonable. this would gives us
a good opportunity to have a consistency in our fontconfig
config file and to help the maintainer for better fontconfig
support on fonts.

Any thought, suggestion are welcome.

Regards,
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 1 .. http://github.com/tagoh/fc-xmlgen
 2 .. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips
 3 .. --subst option is required

Advice: tightening line spacing on my font?

I've made a couple of fonts that are distributed through Fedora;
today, someone pointed out that Essays1743 has really wide line
spacing.  (*) Essays is based on a particular book from 1743, whose
lines are *much* closer together than that--in OpenOffice, I have to
set the paragraph spacing to about 75% to get something reasonable.  I
want to fix this, but I'm concerned about people's existing documents
getting messed up.

What do you guys think? (I thought this would be a good group of
people to talk about the installed base of a font.)

(*) A sample document: http://www.thibault.org/fonts/essays/Sample.pdf

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Re: VL Gothic odd characters (Mark Alford)

Mark,

> All the native speakers of Japanese that I have consulted tell me that
> these kanji look odd, definitely non-standard. They have never seen
> "soto" or "uchi/KA" written this way in handwriting, and hardly ever in
> books. 

I guess you consulted (relatively) young Japanese speakers only.  My
understanding is that the difference of the style you are talking is
something like traditional vs modern preferences.  It appears that, for
whatever reason, the designer of VL Gothic chose the traditional style
for this particular one.  If you don't like his/her decision, that's
fine.  You can have your own opinion.  However, I don't think it is a
bug; it is a matter of preferences.

> My teacher told me that if any student wrote these kanji in the
> VL-Gothic way, they would be corrected. 

I'm not sure what your teacher actually said, but I believe you
misunderstood her explanation.

> Does anyone know of a computer kanji font that uses the standard form of
> these characters, the form that is used in printing books and is taught
> to students in Japan?

I'm not sure what you want, but just as an example, you can download a
PDF copy of the latest (revised last year) Joyo kanji hyo (List of
regular use Kanji) from a web site of Bunka Cho (Agency for Cultural
Affairs, a Special Body in Ministry of Education.)  Although it is
called "List", it is not just a list; it is a part of definitive

Re: VL Gothic odd characters

> > But in the vl-gothic that my Fedora 13 has, it looks different: the
> > diagonal stroke in the right half of the character goes through the
> > vertical bar, when it should only go to the right of the bar.
> > How does it look in your vl-gothic font?

> Aah, I see what you mean. In both characters the last stroke is placed
> unusually. I'm not sure if it's a bug or feature though, the IPA fonts
> have it also this way (both Gothic and Mincho style). Might be worth
> asking some actual Japanese whether it's wrong or acceptable
> stylisation.

It's a design thing.  Both shapes are perfectly fine.

As long as the rasterized image reflects the designer's intention, it
is not a bug.

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VL Gothic odd characters

A couple of characters in my VL Gothic don't look right.
I have vlgothic-fonts-20110414 under Fedora 13.
The odd-looking characters are  外  家

Where is the right place to discuss this?

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[Announce] Released 1.07.1 version of Liberation fonts

Hi All,

Released 1.07.1 version of Liberation fonts.

Changelog:
- Resolved bug 738264, corrected height of U+040D in Liberation Mono
- Resolved bug 729989, corrected macron position on ā, ē, ī, ō, ū in
Narrow fonts
- Enabled embedding of font
- Added License link
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/LiberationFontLicense

Best Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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DroidSans aliasing

Nicolas,

Can you please adjust the droid-sans conf file to add either binding=same or
binding=strong to all edits?  If you run fc-scan on DroidSansJapanese.ttf
right now, you see that the family, fullname, and fontversion values are
marked weak (w).  We really want them to be (s).

Thanks,
behdad
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