Hi,

Thank you both for starting to clean up the awful mess that URW fonts had 
become over time. It had come to the point they were totally unusable by 
anything but a few apps that hardcoded them. They were tripping many many users 
(countless why *awful things* happen as soon as I try to use one of the urw 
fonts in my app, it's time proven right ?)

The next step of course is to replace Postscript fonts with Opentype CFF 
versions (.otf), since that's what most apps expect. The few apps that used to 
work with Postscript fonts are getting sick of them (LibreOffice is filtering 
legacy font formats now for example).

Since OpenType .otf versions ship CFF outlines like Postscript there is no risk 
of breaking metric compatibility.

Nitpick: Fedora packages are supposed to group fonts by family. As Microsoft 
noted in its WPF font model whitepaper, the CSS model and apps only know to 
manage weight, width or slant qualifiers. So anything which is a weight, width 
or slant qualifier is a font face name (in the same Fedora package), and 
anything else a different font family. Therefore urw-base35-nimbus-sans-fonts 
and urw-base35-nimbus-sans-narrow-fonts should be merged (narrow is a width 
qualifier). But even though splitting those what a mistake, over-spitting is 
much better for users than under-splitting! (the 4 faces only thing is actually 
another Postscript legacy limitation IIRC).

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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