Hi David,
Thanks for your contribution as well! I hadn't heard of the fonts-unifont
package before.
Unfortunately, it looks like "fonts-unifont" only includes .ttf files in Debian
11 Bullseye. In Debian 12 Bookworm and onward, they're .otf files which Koha
can't use.
For Ubuntu... looks like Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy has the .ttf version while Ubuntu
24.04 noble and onwards has the .otf version.
So looks like it'll be a mixed bag there.
But it's got me thinking. Maybe we can include the Unifont .ttf in Koha and
provide a "Unifont" option in the Label creator as a backup option for people
without other options.
David Cook
Senior Software Engineer
Prosentient Systems
Suite 7.03
6a Glen St
Milsons Point NSW 2061
Australia
Office: 02 9212 0899
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:17:23 +0100
From: David Liddle <da...@liddles.net>
To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz
Cc: ykleu...@msn.com
Subject: Re: [Koha] Printing spine labels in non-Roman characters,
Thai in particular
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Thank you, David, for chiming in with immensely useful information! I
manage another system with which Michael is familiar, and your contribution
has helped me understand it better. (I came into administration of this
server only a few years ago. At one point, I discovered that there is a
crazy number of font packages installed, and I wasn't sure why.)
Michael, if it helps, the Debian package "fonts-unifont" is installed on
our server. The relevant section of "koha-conf.xml" reads as follows:
<!-- true type font mapping according to type from $font_types in
C4/Creators/Lib.pm -->
<ttf>
<font type="Ft1" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf</font>
<font type="Ft2"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf</font>
<font type="TR"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif.ttf</font>
<font type="TB"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Bold.ttf</font>
<font type="TI"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf</font>
<font
type="TBI">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf</font>
<font type="C" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf</font>
<font type="CB"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf</font>
<font type="CO"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font>
<font
type="CBO">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font>
<font type="H" >/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf</font>
<font type="HB"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_upper.ttf</font>
<font type="HO"
>/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font>
<font
type="HBO">/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont_csur.ttf</font>
</ttf>
I can't immediately explain the added entries, or why some of the default
types continue to use DejaVu. But if spine labels work in Thai from there,
then perhaps the same or similar configuration will work for the system you
and Fred have put together.
All the best,
David Liddle
System Administrator
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