Davide Viti wrote:
Hi,I wrote a fontforge script which accepts as argument both single glyphs and ranges (i.e "strip_glyps.pe FreeSerif.ttf FreeSerif_strip.ttf 30 40 1536:1919 64336:65278")I just archived the script in the d-i repository: d-i/trunk/scripts/g-i I also added README.strip_glyphs which tries to document a bit how to use it; as an example I added the calls needed to fix the problem with Arabic/Persian glyphs. Let me know if something is not clear.
If i've understand correctly, the problem of removing duplicated glyphs seems to be (partially?) solved, right? But, as Idetaka Iwai said [1], sometimes the very same glyph has to be provided by two different fonts since it's completly different from language to language. So, we still need the patch [2] that forces the GTK frontend to use a specific font basing on the choosed installation language. Unfortunately, loading font preferences at runtime via gtkrc file seems not to work with DFB [1]: i've just rebuilt the X server i used in early stages of developement of the GTK frontend and i'll see if with GTKX the parsing of gtkrc file automagically starts to work.
ciao Attilio [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00280.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00324.html