[Bug 526633] Review Request: gargi-fonts - A Devanagari font

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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net>  2009-10-05 07:13:19 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3) 
> > 2. please ask the lohit people what they think about this font. IMHO it is
> > highly likely one of the lohit fonts shares a common ancestry with gargi (and
> > in that case they should at least cross-alias each other)
> 
> while comparing lohit devanagari script fonts (marathi, hindi, konkani, nepali,
> sindhi and kashmiri)
> 
> There are little bit differences in lohit and Gargi
> i.e Gargi fonts shape are little more Bold compare to lohit,
> space of gargi is more than lohit
> there are also little bit differences in characters shape

Ok, that means that they probably were not forked from a common root after all,
so no need to cross-alias

> but overall as said above yes, they share common style(Sans) and ancestry.
> 
> between how corss-alias will work?

cross-alias is when package B tells fontconfig : if app asks for font A, and it
is not present, use my font B instead (and the reverse in package A). We do it
for DejaVuLGC/DejaVu for example. But this kind of aliasing is only worth it
when fonts are very close in style or metrics, typically when two projects took
the same origin font and froked it in different ways

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