--- "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, brett hartshorn wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello Jaldhar,
> >
> > I had made the deb manually, i just read the 'APT Howto - Working with
> > source packages', so i will now go back and make them properly by
> > packaging them first in: nepalifonts.orig.tar.gz, nepalifonts.diff.gz
> > and nepalifonts.dsc. I will also make sure they are DFSG compliant, or
> > try my best to free them.
> >
> > -brett
> >
>
> One more thing, to follow the convention used by other Indic fonts in
> debian, the package should be called ttf-nepali-fonts. Please look at
> ttf-indic-fonts to see how to make a policy-compliant fonts package.
>
> Actually, something just struck me. Nepali uses Devanagari right? In
> that case it might be better to just add the fonts to ttf-indic fonts or
> make a ttf-devanagari-fonts package. But if these fonts cannot be used
> for other languages, it would make sense to have a seperate Nepali
> fonts package.
>
Your right, Nepali does use Devanagari, and it seems that this already comes
with the standard
ttf-indic fonts package, i tested it against the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya
website and all the
text rendered fine. One thing though, the fonts created by the MPP do look a
little better than
the basic Devanagari that comes with ttf-indic, and they also have Devanagari
in a few extra
flavors to. But i am not sure if the MPP wishes to open source their extra
fonts and have them as
part of Debian, i guess we will have to wait and see.
-brett
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