On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Such an team has already been started by Christian Perrier:
> > http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-fonts/
>
>
> I'm not entirely sure that this team has reached very ambitious goals
> yet (when I launched it, I talked about
(from a discussion crossposted in two other lists, started by Andrea
s Barth and followed up by Frans Pop)
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:55, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > So, my question is whether it would be sensible to setup some Debian
> > Fonts Team who c
On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:55, Andreas Barth wrote:
> So, my question is whether it would be sensible to setup some Debian
> Fonts Team who could team-maintain these packages in a common
> repository?
Such an team has already been started by Christian Perrier:
http://alioth.debian.org/project
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:53:17AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> So, up till now fonts in Debian were supposed to be installed via
> Defoma. Defoma has worked fairly well, but it's Debian-specific, and
> very complex.
>
> Now however we have fontconfig, which is a more generic way for
> applicati
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:53:17AM -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> So, up till now fonts in Debian were supposed to be installed via
> Defoma. Defoma has worked fairly well, but it's Debian-specific, and
> very complex.
>
> Now however we have fontconfig, which is a more generic way for
> applicati
BM> I looked over the fonts section of the X11 docs
BM>http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/fonts.html
You mean, some people actually reads the docs?
BM> but I'm unclear if I need to follow those instructions on debian.
Yes. I don't recall if ttmkfdir is included in Debian, and if so, in
which package
BM> I looked over the fonts section of the X11 docs
BM>http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/fonts.html
You mean, some people actually reads the docs?
BM> but I'm unclear if I need to follow those instructions on debian.
Yes. I don't recall if ttmkfdir is included in Debian, and if so, in
which packag
Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
KP> PCF was designed to support multiple encodings from the same file; there
KP> are table entries per encoding.
That surprises me somewhat. How do you support multiple sets of
properties in a single PCF file?
Juliusz
Keith Packard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
KP> PCF was designed to support multiple encodings from the same file; there
KP> are table entries per encoding.
That surprises me somewhat. How do you support multiple sets of
properties in a single PCF file?
Juliusz
MH> 1) What can the X server and xfs each currently do WRT #1 above
The scalable backends ``type1'', ``speedo'' and ``freetype'' can
recode fonts to an arbitrary encoding using a common, extensible
database of encodings. ``speedo'' and ``type1'' are limited to 256
codepoints, ``freetype'' knows n
KP> I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X fonts will bloat the X
KP> server and all applications by a huge amount.
RM> Please explain?
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/render/2001-April/000984.html
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/render/2001-April/000987.html
MH> 1) What can the X server and xfs each currently do WRT #1 above
The scalable backends ``type1'', ``speedo'' and ``freetype'' can
recode fonts to an arbitrary encoding using a common, extensible
database of encodings. ``speedo'' and ``type1'' are limited to 256
codepoints, ``freetype'' knows
KP> I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X fonts will bloat the X
KP> server and all applications by a huge amount.
RM> Please explain?
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/render/2001-April/000984.html
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/render/2001-April/000987.html
Around 18 o'clock on Jun 7, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > 2) a significant portion of the client-side apps know to ask for ISO 10646
> > (and better-specified fonts in general)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:41:43PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X fonts
Around 18 o'clock on Jun 7, Branden Robinson wrote:
>
> > 2) a significant portion of the client-side apps know to ask for ISO 10646
> > (and better-specified fonts in general)
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:41:43PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote:
> I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X font
Around 21 o'clock on Jun 7, "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 2) What work needs to be done to xfs/Xserver to finish the job
>(itemized preferably), and how complex would this work be to
>get done? What amount of timeframe would it take?
PCF was designed to support multiple encodings from the
Around 21 o'clock on Jun 7, "Mike A. Harris" wrote:
> 2) What work needs to be done to xfs/Xserver to finish the job
>(itemized preferably), and how complex would this work be to
>get done? What amount of timeframe would it take?
PCF was designed to support multiple encodings from the s
Around 18 o'clock on Jun 7, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 2) a significant portion of the client-side apps know to ask for ISO 10646
> (and better-specified fonts in general)
I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X fonts will bloat the X server
and all applications by a huge amount. If w
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>Subject: Re: Fonts in XFree86 4.1.0
>
>On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:01:41PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> The fonts are now all generated at build time from ISO10646
>> masters correct? Our 75dpi package went from 1.2Mb to 1
Around 18 o'clock on Jun 7, Branden Robinson wrote:
> 2) a significant portion of the client-side apps know to ask for ISO 10646
> (and better-specified fonts in general)
I hope this never happens -- using 10646 X fonts will bloat the X server
and all applications by a huge amount. If
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>Subject: Re: Fonts in XFree86 4.1.0
>
>On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:01:41PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> The fonts are now all generated at build time from ISO10646
>> masters correct? Our 75dpi package went from 1.2Mb to 1
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:01:41PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> The fonts are now all generated at build time from ISO10646
> masters correct? Our 75dpi package went from 1.2Mb to 10Mb, so I
> looked in it and see ISO8859-[1-15] inside now. The filenames
> seem much more organized now, but will
On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 06:01:41PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> The fonts are now all generated at build time from ISO10646
> masters correct? Our 75dpi package went from 1.2Mb to 10Mb, so I
> looked in it and see ISO8859-[1-15] inside now. The filenames
> seem much more organized now, but wil
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