Re: [g-i] Re: TTF font for Georgian

["Aiet Kolkhi" <aietkolkhi@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Christian, for the info.

The best Georgian font for graphical installer would indeed be BPG
Glaho typeface.

As freefont does not contain this typeface, we have an option of
putting the BPG Glaho typeface directly into the Georgian section of
fraafont FreeSans font, or using Matthew's ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts
package.

One thing I am not sure of is whether we will be able to maintain the
professional manual delta-hinting of BPG Glaho typeface if we put it
into freefont.

Do you have an advice which option we should use for graphical installer?

Thanks.

Best regards,
Aiet

On 3/7/06, Christian Perrier <bubulle@kheops.frmug.org> wrote:
> (voluntarily not removing the quoted mail)
>
> Quoting Aiet Kolkhi (aietkolkhi@gmail.com):
> > > Aiet, the ery latest version of Freefont by Primoz Peterlin included
> > > Georgian glyphs.
> > >
> > > I made an unofficial package:
> > > http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/ttf-freefont
> >
> > I took a look at the package and it includes the following typefaces:
> >
> > FreeMono
> > FreeSans
> > FreeSerif
> >
> > Each typeface consists of four styles (medium, bold, oblique, boldoblique).
> >
> > FreeSerif's medium style includes Georgian characters of contemprorary
> > Mkdedruli alphabeth used today.
> >
> > The characters included resemble to Grigolia Typeface, created by
> > Georgian typographer Anton Grigolia for offset printing.
> >
> > The characters are not manually delta-hinted, meaning they will not
> > look perfect on small sizes.
> >
> > But I guess overall quality is ok and can be used as Georgian serif typeface.
> >
> > As BPG Info-Tech has finally licensed their linux fonts package under
> > GPL, I guess we could include BPG Glaho as Serif font, as well as BPG
> > Courier as mono design.  We could leave Serif with existing Georgian
> > design, or change it with BPG Chveulebrivi.
> >
> > Will Debian Installer use freefont package for its graphical
> > interface, or will it use the ttf-bpg-georgian-fonts package?
>
> It may use any of both.
>
> We have a slight preference for freefont, because it reduces the
> number of special cases and the number of packages we may need to
> request a udeb for.
>
> However, if the translators insist on using another packaged font, we
> can use it...so, in short the call is mostly yours.
>
>
>