[Debian-in-workers] Draft for ttf-indic-fonts restructuring

Vasudev Kamath kamathvasudev at gmail.com
Sun May 15 07:34:28 UTC 2011


On 07:26 Sun 15 May     , Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> Vasudev Kamath said on Sat, May 14, 2011 at 05:35:03PM +0530,:
> 
>  > Lohit provides fonts for most of the Indian Languages they provide
>  > both source (sfd) and binary (ttf) so its better to have each
>  > language as seperate fonts-lohith-<language> package, also fonts
>  > team encourages building fonts from source since it helps in
>  > finding bugs in fontforge
> 
> A related question, if lohit provides fonts for all languages
> supported by the installer, would it be better (in a typographical
> sense) to have the debian installer depend on the proposed new
> font-lohit package?
> 
> Or, will be pick and choose one font for each language and create yet
> another metapackage - probably fonts-indic-core (or similar)?

Yeah that sounds good I think the DD's can answer this better and
since its related to Debian Installer translations may be Chrstian can
give us some suggestions on this.

Regards
-- 
Vasudev Kamath
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