Re: [g-i] Indic scripts

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscali.it>]

Christian Perrier wrote:
> > Oblique is something even more "pending" than italic and the GTK 
> > frontend never uses oblique formatting, so the *oblique*.ttf files can 
> > also be deleted from font packages right now to save up some Kbytes.
>
>
>
> So, you actually mean we could remove the below *Oblique files from
> the udeb, right ?
>
> bubulle@mykerinos:~/src/debian/ttf-freefont/ttf-freefont-20060126> ls -l TTF-stripped/
> total 512
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  83736 2006-02-15 06:44 FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bubulle bubulle 110960 2006-02-15 06:44 FreeSansBold.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bubulle bubulle  90580 2006-02-15 06:44 FreeSansOblique.ttf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bubulle bubulle 226160 2006-02-15 06:44 FreeSans.ttf
>
>
> Similarly, if I understand Davide correctly, two more ranges could be
> stripped from the fonts in the udeb?

yes: oblique is not used anywhere in the GTK frontend, only italic and 
in the two indicated cases (question description and text beneath 
progressbar).
Italic is not necessary (we could use bold to replace italic), and 
moreover i don't know if it makes sense using italic with  ideogrammatic 
(japanese, chinese ... ) alphabets: intl translator, what do you think?
I'm for cutting down font space occupation: we may be not so far away 
from the target of running a complete g-i installation process with 64 
megs of ram only.

Attilio