pruning the fonts list

Rahul Bhalerao b.rahul.pm at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 20:12:01 UTC 2008


On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Warren Togami wrote:
>
>  > Key question to ask ourselves: Is trying support all languages from a
>  > single Live image really sustainable?
>
>  *shrug*, Imo, no.  At least in the KDE-live case, we make no bones about it
>  being pretty much English-only, and encourage the production/use of
>  localized spins.
>

IMO, all the fonts pertaining to a language should remain in the
localized spins for that language, whereas only the necessary ones be
present in other cases.

As Sundaram has already pointed out, for providing minimal Indic
support, Lohit font series should be considered as a must, rest all
should be optional or removed. This includes, sarai-fonts,
samyak-fonts*, smc-fonts*(may not be available yet), and madan-fonts.
Although, madan-fonts is specifically designed for Nepali language,
the lohit-fonts-hindi is a good enough for Nepali as the writing
script is same for both.
Also, since there are so many similar looking and some very rarely
used (artistic) fonts available for English, we should even filter out
some of them in the Live media.
_
Rahul.

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