freefont question

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 12 octobre 2006 à 14:10 -0600, Orion Poplawski a écrit :

> - Should I package up the freefont package from 
> http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/ for FE?  Seems easy enough.

Of course if you package it  you'll also have to follow FreeSans
releases and update the package once in a while

>   And perhaps 
> could reduce redundancy.  I've CC'ed Rex Dieter who seems to have 
> packaged these at some point.
> 
> - Should I point plplot to a different set of fonts in Fedora?  Suggestions?

If the apps can understand fontconfig aliases, use the default Sans one.
If not, you'll have to use the font with the widest unicode coverage
possible, which usually means FreeSans (even though a lot of people
consider this coverage was attained by sacrificing quality).

However even with FreeSans, I don't think you'll have full unicode
coverage. So packaging FreeSans is only a stopgap measure – you should
still open bugs upstream so the apps get fixed to access fonts through
fontconfig.

That being said FreeSans is widely used so it'll be good to have a
FreeSans package in the repo, if only so Fedora users can open documents
that specify it as the main font. If you package it do consider adding
fontconfig setup files like we do for dejavu and dejavu-lgc (consult
Behdad to choose the right priority for your font)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot