Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-04 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:51:44 +0800 Ben de Groot wrote: > Alexis, can you shed some light on this from the TeX side? What font > formats can be used by various TeX packages? Ahah :) Short answer: All. More or less properly depending on the font and its format. More detailed answer: http://en.wi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-04 Thread Ben de Groot
On 1 March 2015 at 23:36, Guilherme Amadio wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 08:59:38PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> On 28 February 2015 at 19:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> > On 02/28/2015 01:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> >> >> If we do the use expand, we should leave it up for users to set.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-01 Thread Peter Stuge
Guilherme Amadio wrote: > We could have global USE flags for each popular font format, turn on the > flag for OpenType by default, and let users choose extra formats they > want. I like this suggestion very much. This is exactly what I want from Gentoo. > Another thing we might want to work on i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-01 Thread Guilherme Amadio
On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 08:59:38PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 28 February 2015 at 19:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 02/28/2015 01:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: > >>> > >>> Since this is mostly used for web developers, I recommend to leave it > >>> off for desktop users, but possibly on for s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-03-01 Thread Ben de Groot
On 28 February 2015 at 19:52, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/28/2015 01:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >>> >>> Since this is mostly used for web developers, I recommend to leave it >>> off for desktop users, but possibly on for servers, for example. >> >> If we do the use expand, we should leave it u

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-28 Thread Duncan
Michael Orlitzky posted on Sat, 28 Feb 2015 06:52:55 -0500 as excerpted: > (The webfonts might be useful for clients, by the way. If they're not > installed locally, your browser downloads them on-demand and caches them > for later use.) Well, unless the user tells it not to, of course. =:^) (Th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/28/2015 01:47 AM, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> Since this is mostly used for web developers, I recommend to leave it >> off for desktop users, but possibly on for servers, for example. > > If we do the use expand, we should leave it up for users to set. I > suggest we default to only otf, if th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-27 Thread Ben de Groot
On 28 February 2015 at 00:26, Guilherme Amadio wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 03:45:23PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: >> >> 1. lu_zero, matsuu, pva: do you still want to be members of the Fonts >> project? Then add yourselves to the new project page: >> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Fonts >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-27 Thread Guilherme Amadio
Hello! On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 03:45:23PM +0800, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 22 February 2015 at 03:43, Ben de Groot wrote: > > To anyone within Gentoo who is interested in fonts > > > > I would like to announce a meeting to be held in #gentoo-meetings on > > Freenode, on Friday February 27 at 06:00

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-27 Thread Peter Stuge
Ben de Groot wrote: > >> I propose that we prefer installing just OpenType. But this should > >> be user configurable, so in those cases I propose we do: > >> > >> IUSE="+opentype" > >> if use opentype; then > >> FONT_SUFFIX="otf" > >> else > >> FONT_SUFFIX="ttf" > >> fi > > > > So if I fir

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-27 Thread Luca Barbato
On 27/02/15 08:45, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 22 February 2015 at 03:43, Ben de Groot wrote: >> To anyone within Gentoo who is interested in fonts >> >> I would like to announce a meeting to be held in #gentoo-meetings on >> Freenode, on Friday February 27 at 06:00 UTC, unless another date >> and/or

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-27 Thread Ben de Groot
On 27 February 2015 at 18:34, Peter Stuge wrote: > Ben de Groot wrote: >> I propose that we prefer installing just OpenType. But this should >> be user configurable, so in those cases I propose we do: >> >> IUSE="+opentype" >> if use opentype; then >> FONT_SUFFIX="otf" >> else >> FONT_SUFF

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-27 Thread Peter Stuge
Ben de Groot wrote: > I propose that we prefer installing just OpenType. But this should > be user configurable, so in those cases I propose we do: > > IUSE="+opentype" > if use opentype; then > FONT_SUFFIX="otf" > else > FONT_SUFFIX="ttf" > fi So if I first USE=-opentype and later USE=op

[gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections

2015-02-26 Thread Ben de Groot
On 22 February 2015 at 03:43, Ben de Groot wrote: > To anyone within Gentoo who is interested in fonts > > I would like to announce a meeting to be held in #gentoo-meetings on > Freenode, on Friday February 27 at 06:00 UTC, unless another date > and/or time will be suggested by people who want to