[Debian-in-workers] Question about Sans/Serif aliases

[Arne Goetje]

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Soumyadip Modak wrote:

> We had thought of a similar approach long ago (when we were merging
> ttf-indic-fonts with other similar packages like ttf-bengali-fonts and
> ttf-tamil-fonts, see changelog) but it was decided then to go forward
> with the structure present now. Jaldhar, can you please weigh in ?
> 
>> Now, I examined that of these the following fonts are the only serif
>> (modulated) ones:
>> Rekha, Kedage_n, Rachana, TAMU_Kalyani and Pothana2000.
>> All other fonts are actually sans-serif (unmodulated) ones.
>>
>> Some of the serif fonts surprisingly use sans-serif Latin glyphs, however...
>>
>> 1. is there a reason, why Rekha, Kedage_n, Rachana, TAMU_Kalyani and
>> Pothana2000 are actually advertised as sans-serif and that all fonts
>> advertised as serif are actually sans-serif? Even with serif fonts
>> available for most scripts?
> 
> I believe that the concept of Serif/Sans serif fonts doesn't really
> apply to Indic scripts. Font developers/maintainers will be able to
> better comment on this. However if English glyphs are taken into
> account, then I must say I've so far relied on the information that
> fontforge spits out to decide where each font goes in.

Well, there are modulated (=serif) and unmodulated (=sans) fonts...

 > IIRC, ttf-freefonts also has glyphs of various Indic fonts
> incorporated quite recently. If it is a question of having a basic set
> of Indic fonts available on a default system installation, I believe
> ttf-freefonts already addresses the issue.

Yes, ttf-freefonts covers all indic scripts and seems to support
ligatures as well... has anyone tested if the glyph coverage of those
fonts is sufficient?

Cheers
Arne
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