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

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Arne Goetje said on Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 05:44:21PM +0800,:

 > Although, I planned to have one -core and one -extra package for each
 > script... All core fonts in one package would mean the -extra packages
 > depend on the -core package? Or how do we make sure that the fonts are
 > not duplicate on the users' systems?

My suggestion:-

1. One ``-core'' package with all fonts.
2. One ``-extras'' META PACKAGE depending on  all of languages in the
   below. 
3. Several ``ttf-<language>-extra-fonts'' package for each language. 
 

 > Do Indian users usually install all Indic fonts, or only those for the
 > language they speak?

Mostly, I expect that users will install only fonts for the languages
they read. One or two, at the maximum.

I have, and I expect most people on this list to have, all the
languages installed. 



 > Otherwise I would need a list of preferred fonts for each script in
 > order to change the package in Ubuntu first.

Ok. The flame war is on. You started it.

(Did you say ``oh!! no!!!''?? tell us whetehr you cant seif or sans in
the --core package.)

Serif/sans, as judged by the styles for the language in question; not
the glyphs in the ASCII range.



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