On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:26:27 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> I would much prefer if a new upload is made, so it is properly shown
> with a maintainer that cares - and not one that wants it gone. A simple
> rebuild for it shouldnt be much of a problem, its arch:all, not likely
> to break much.
I've
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:42 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> Right, so I'd love to see Deja Vu contain only the Latin set which can
> be derived from the existing high-quality, well hinted, glyphs in the
> original Vera design, augmented by taking those glyphs and creating the
> alternate forms which V
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 15:23 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Shouldn't that be a bug reported against DejaVu fonts, then ?
Sure, but I doubt it will be fixed. Hinting glyphs is the hard part of
font design, and I don't know of any tools available to people outside
the world of commercial font de
Quoting Keith Packard (kei...@keithp.com):
> One of the big efforts with Bitstream was in adjusting the instructed
> hints within the font to take advantage of our text rendering
> environment; considerable effort was applied in tuning those for
> FreeType and Xft. Cairo adopts the same text rende
On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 07:57 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> (reducing CC list to the acceptable minimum)
>
> Quoting Keith Packard (kei...@keithp.com):
>
> > The main 'improvement' that should be made in dejavu is to remove glyphs
> > which are not part of the core latin set; mixing multiple ch
(reducing CC list to the acceptable minimum)
Quoting Keith Packard (kei...@keithp.com):
> The main 'improvement' that should be made in dejavu is to remove glyphs
> which are not part of the core latin set; mixing multiple character sets
> into a single font precludes people from choosing a more
On Thu, 2009-06-25 at 11:56 +0200, Daniel Baumann wrote:
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Given Keith’s reaction, he’ll probably volunteer to maintain it if
> > Daniel doesn’t want to do it anymore. I’m also CCing pkg-fonts in case
> > people want to jump on the occasion to team-maintain it instead.
>
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Given Keith’s reaction, he’ll probably volunteer to maintain it if
> Daniel doesn’t want to do it anymore. I’m also CCing pkg-fonts in case
> people want to jump on the occasion to team-maintain it instead.
i don't want to sound ignorrant, but for me, there's really no po
On 11791 March 1977, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Is it possible to put back ttf-bitstream-vera in unstable, using the
> version in testing (which was the last uploaded one anyway)? Otherwise,
> I guess we just have to wait for a new upload.
Well, technically yes it is possible.
I would much prefer
Hi,
I have noticed unexpectedly that ttf-bitstream-vera was removed from
unstable some time ago, as requested by Daniel Baumann. However,
ttf-dejavu might be more complete, but there are some reasons why the
original Vera fonts are better for occidental languages; which is why
they are still selec
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