Re: Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font

2006-02-27 Thread MJ Ray
=?iso-8859-2?Q?SZERV=C1C_Attila?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > `ttf-gentium (1.02-2) unstable > Move to main, the OFL is considered free by debian-legal.' > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2006/02/msg01782.html Well, I think that's obviously a bug. AFAIK, there's a grand total of two post

Re: Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font

2006-02-26 Thread SZERVÁC Attila
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote: > On 23/02/2006, at 1:22 AM, MJ Ray wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) > >> On Feb 22, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> The OFL FAQ claims it follows the DFSG, but DDs disagree. See > >>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg0

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-02-23 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 23/02/2006, at 5:17 PM, SZERVÁC Attila wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote: I dunno. What about gsfonts, thryomanes? I don't know those. Where do I get them to test? apt-get install gsfonts* ttf-thryomanes :-) For those of us running Mac OSX, I should have sai

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-02-22 Thread SZERVÁC Attila
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote: > > I dunno. What about gsfonts, thryomanes? > > I don't know those. Where do I get them to test? apt-get install gsfonts* ttf-thryomanes :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font

2006-02-22 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 23/02/2006, at 1:22 AM, MJ Ray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) On Feb 22, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The OFL FAQ claims it follows the DFSG, but DDs disagree. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00454.html And many others agree. It seems fairly clear that

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-02-22 Thread Clytie Siddall
On 22/02/2006, at 6:26 PM, SZERVÁC Attila wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote: Gentium (a true Unicode font) has been released under the Open Font Licence: Gentium still is not free http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341138 (due the prohibition of license mod

Re: Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font

2006-02-22 Thread MJ Ray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) > On Feb 22, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The OFL FAQ claims it follows the DFSG, but DDs disagree. See > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00454.html > And many others agree. It seems fairly clear that forbidding API-compatibility is troub

Re: Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font

2006-02-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 22, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The OFL FAQ claims it follows the DFSG, but DDs disagree. See > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/01/msg00454.html And many others agree. > for example. Please do not upload OFL'd fonts to main for now. Please do. -- ciao, Marco signature

Re: Fonts for distribution (was: Re: Request for assistance about terminus font

2006-02-22 Thread MJ Ray
Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Gentium (a true Unicode font) has been released under the Open Font > Licence: > http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software.asp?id=83 Last I heard, the Open Font Licence got its name change clause (clause 3) wrong and prevents people making API-compatib

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-02-21 Thread SZERVÁC Attila
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Clytie Siddall wrote: > Gentium (a true Unicode font) has been released under the Open Font > Licence: Gentium still is not free http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=341138 (due the prohibition of license mod in deriv. works) > We're not getting anywhere, ap

RE: Fonts update

2005-12-20 Thread Viti Davide
Hi Christian, > > Hmmm, technically speaking, I did not NMU the package. M. > Adnène (adn) hijacked it and I sponsored the upload (I even > encouraged Mohammed to hijack the package)...:-) Ah, ok :) > > Thi sdoes not change anything to the result...however, unless > I'm wrong, the udeb cont

Re: Fonts update

2005-12-20 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Viti Davide ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Frans, > I just noticed you've used the tarball for arabeyes: > Christian did a NMU a while ago (see [1]) > So you can just drop the tarball and use the official udeb which > Contains "ae_AlMohanad.ttf" rather than "ae_Tholoth.ttf"; apparently > The result

Re: Fonts update

2005-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:55:12AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Viti Davide wrote: > > Frans, > > I just noticed you've used the tarball for arabeyes: > > Christian did a NMU a while ago (see [1]) > > So you can just drop the tarball and use the official ude

Re: Fonts update

2005-12-20 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:52:47AM +0100, Viti Davide wrote: > Frans, > I just noticed you've used the tarball for arabeyes: > Christian did a NMU a while ago (see [1]) > So you can just drop the tarball and use the official udeb which > Contains "ae_AlMohanad.ttf" rather than "ae_Tholoth.ttf"; app

RE: Fonts update

2005-12-20 Thread Viti Davide
Frans, I just noticed you've used the tarball for arabeyes: Christian did a NMU a while ago (see [1]) So you can just drop the tarball and use the official udeb which Contains "ae_AlMohanad.ttf" rather than "ae_Tholoth.ttf"; apparently The result is much better (there's still a jpg in my webspace [

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-22 Thread Yann Dirson
J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\) writes: > > 3. are there unicode console/x-window fonts available? > > X: yes. E.g. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html > > Console: I don't think this is possible. The console uses VGA fonts. These > are limited to 512 characters. Well, it's possible to emu

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-10 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 01:46:15 +0100, Pavel Makovec wrote: > J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) napsal: > > Console: I don't think this is possible. The console uses VGA fonts. > > These are limited to 512 characters. > > that explains unicode mapping. I hope we are not stuck with vga forever. > (current cards

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-10 Thread Pavel Makovec
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) napsal: > > On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 18:57:42 +0100, Pavel Makovec wrote: >> afaik, linux kernels support unicode mapping => more questions: >> 1. is a full unicode kernel support feasible in the near-future? > > I don't know. What do you mean by "full unicode kernel support"? I

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 18:57:42 +0100, Pavel Makovec wrote: > afaik, linux kernels support unicode mapping => more questions: > 1. is a full unicode kernel support feasible in the near-future? I don't know. What do you mean by "full unicode kernel support"? > 3. are there unicode console/x-windo

Lilo Re: Fonts...

1998-12-09 Thread Christian Leutloff
Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Michael Sobolev writes: > > LILO (which I am using) does not seem to be developped actively... > Don't really know. Well, the inter-release interval seems quite large > at least. In the last days there was an announcement on c.o.l.a for LILO 21 ... Bye

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-08 Thread Pavel Makovec
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS napsal: >Is it a good idea to use the framebuffer to internationalise >installation floppies? If so, is there any software already available >for generating simply windows, menus, buttons, etc, like what newt >does, but in a variety of languages, such as Chinese, Arabic, Korean

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-08 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 11:00:13PM +0100, Pavel Makovec wrote: > Michael Sobolev napsal: > > >My desire to have the fonts loaded just before kernel is to > >help my wife to use computer without learning English. > > what about the english (post, bios) messages before boot? OK. Let me be more sp

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-07 Thread Pavel Makovec
Michael Sobolev napsal: >My desire to have the fonts loaded just before kernel is to >help my wife to use computer without learning English. what about the english (post, bios) messages before boot? cheers, pavel

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-07 Thread Yann Dirson
Michael Sobolev writes: > OK. Here is what I need. Usually I set LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, this means that > all > programs that are using appropriate functions, have their's output localized. > For example, when I compile a kernel, it updates the version file (or > something > like that) that s

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-07 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Sun, Dec 06, 1998 at 02:39:04PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ re framebuffer console and VGA graphics mode in 2.1.xxx ] Hmm... I have not tried 2.1.xxx, maybe it is a good idea to try them out. But if it is a really *graphics* mode, I doubt this is that useful at all. VGA adapters allows

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-06 Thread edmundo
> > Why do you need so ? If there *is* a general need for this, this > > should be handled by kbd directly, but I (as kbd maintainer) need to > > know exactly what you'd like to see. > OK. Here is what I need. Usually I set LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, this means that > all > programs that are using appr

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-03 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Why do you need so ? If there *is* a general need for this, this > should be handled by kbd directly, but I (as kbd maintainer) need to > know exactly what you'd like to see. OK. Here is what I need. Usually I set LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R,

Re: Fonts...

1998-12-02 Thread Yann Dirson
Michael Sobolev writes: > > I think that the standard way to change the console font is by modifying > > the file /etc/kbd/config. For example, the line > > > > CONSOLE_FONT=iso01.f16 > > > > would load the font iso01.f16 from directory > > /usr/share/consolefonts/. > > This is exactly

Re: Fonts...

1998-11-13 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 12:20:01AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could anybody please direct me to the information on how to load > > needed font as soon as possible? At the moment, I think that the > > first chance place is /etc/rc.boot, where init looks during start-up. > > Is it possible