[Bug 526607] Review Request: openfontlibrary-smonohand-font - A handwritten monospace font

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--- Comment #8 from Michel Alexandre Salim <michael.silvanus at gmail.com>  2009-10-01 18:42:33 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> > 2. the author claims he created this font in fontforge, so it'd be a good idea
> > to beg for the sfd file upstream and build the font from source in the rpm
> I'll contact him and ask.
> 
> > 3. there is no licensing trace in the ttf file, and web pages are unfortunately
> > not future proof. Please ask upstream to release the font in a zip file that
> > includes a detached .txt licensing file (or at least use the fontforge button
> > that embeds the OFL text in the .ttf)
> Ditto.

OFLB's web contact form is currently broken, so I'm not sure whether the
message I sent actually got through or not. I'm checking on IRC to see if
anyone could fix it.

> > 7. 65 is probably too high a prio for a fantasy latin font,  63-64 should be
> > fine (see fontconfig-priorities.txt)
> Where's this file? I tried looking in fontpackages{,-devel} and
> fontconfig{,-devel}. I was trying to go for as low a priority as possible,
> since it looked that 50 is for a user override, and the number goes up from
> there.
Ignore my silliness here. I was typing fontpackage, not fontpackages, and grep
swallowed the error.

> Actually, one more question: the font filename (TTF) -- is there a naming
> convention? right now it has the author's name -- dalles_-_SMonohand.ttf  

Also, presumably the suffix -fonts stays regardless of whether the package
contains only one font or more.

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