I've just realised that it's Florian, who did the last (NMU) upload of
gsfonts, who is the submitter of this bug and not Stefan, who reported
the bug originally as #250949. I'm CCing Stefan.
Stefan, if you'd like to catch up on what's been happening, the bug log
is available here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=271427
If you could test my packages (details below) and verify that they fix
the problem, I would be very grateful.
Ar 29/01/2005 am 18:35, ysgrifennodd Danilo Åegan:
> Today at 17:04, Dafydd Harries wrote:
>
> > Ah, this list is just what I need. However, there are some glyphs which
> > are not in your list (see my previous mail to the bug report for
> > details), but which also seem to be broken. Perhaps some non-Serbian
> > Cyrillic glyphs are also broken.
>
> Yes, I've noticed that you mention it, but I really can't help there,
> since I'm not familiar with those glyphs, and how they're used or how
> should they look. My guess would be as good as yours.
>
> All Cyrillic outside 0x400â0x45f range is used by non-Slavic Cyrillic
> languages, so I really don't know anything about it.
Ok, I now have a list of glyphs to copy based on your list and the ones
which I've identified as broken. I've uploaded a new .deb, plus the
latest versions of my scripts and their various outputs to the same
location as before:
http://muse.19inch.net/~daf/dump/271427/
The copy-cyrillic.sh script contains the list of glyphs copied.
> > The reason for this is that the Chancery font in the version of Valek's
> > fonts which I grabbed doesn't seem to contain any of the Serbian glyphs.
> > Also, the Nimbus Sans Condensed has a few broken/missing glyphs.
>
> I've just checked 1.0.7pre39 tarball, and it has all of these. I
> remember asking Valek to provide a SFD tarball a few releases before
> that, but that didn't come with Chancery fixed-up (it was fixed a
> release or two after the rest of the stuff), so perhaps you're using
> that one instead?
Yeah, it seems this was due to a bug in my script where it wouldn't copy
the glyphs if they were not already in the target font. I've now fixed
this, with some help from the Fontforge author. The only drawback is
that these glyphs are added at the end of the font rather than inserted
in order, but I don't think it's enough to worry about.
By the way, my work is based on the 1.0.7pre40 tarball from gnome.ru.
The main remaining issue seems to be that Fontforge is causing spurious
changes to the font metrics in some cases. I'm going to pursue this with
the Fontforge author.
Something else to note is that neither the GhostScript fonts nor Valek's
fonts contain glyphs for U+04a2 (Ò) and U+04a3 (Ò) in Nimbus Sans L Bold
Condensed (n019044l.pfb).
One thing that needs some consideration is which version number to give
this updated package. The three most recent versions were:
- 8.14-3.
- 8.14+urwcyr1.0.7pre35-1, which I understand used Valek's fonts as
upstream source.
- 8.14+v8.11-0.1, Florian's NMU which reverted the .orig.tar.gz back to
that of 8.14, in order to fix the metrics problems introduced by the
previous upload.
I guess 8.14+urwcyr1.0.7pre40 will do for the upstream version.
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Dafydd
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