Re: Fonts working "out of the box"
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 10:17:48AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:45:38AM +1000, The Nose Who Knows wrote:
> >
> > What would be the best way of approaching these people who may find that
> > Free licenses are the best way to distribute their work? If we find
> > that fontographers are interested, we may gain a lot of good quality
> > work quite rapidly.
>
> Write them an email stressing the practical advantages, without boring
> them too much with a free software diatribe.
>
> For example, point out to these designers that if their fonts are DFSG
> free, they can be distributed with Debian (and Redhat and anything
> else) which will make them useful to a huge group of people who might
> not have heard about them otherwise.
Appropriate font licenses are the X11 license (or minor variants
thereon) and the Arphic license (found in the *arphic* packages or
linked from the GNU license list.
One worry I have, is that we don't really want Debian to have a
large number of 'junk' fonts. I'd prefer any fonts added to
Debian be of reasonably high quality, certainly cover ASCII,
and hopefully a larger codepage (CP1252 is a nice target for
Western European fonts, and Markus Kuhn offered a larger
Latin subset* that would be nice to hit.) I hesitate to argue
against all grunge fonts, but there's a lot of them out there,
they aren't heavy use fonts, and they're better left to the
font archives rather than debian.
*
$ uniset + 0000-017e + 8859-2.TXT + 8859-3.TXT \
+ 8859-4.TXT + 8859-9.TXT + 8859-10.TXT + 8859-13.TXT \
+ 8859-14.TXT + 8859-15.TXT + 8859-16.TXT + CP1252.TXT clean c
{
{ 0x0020, 0x007E }, { 0x00A0, 0x017E }, { 0x0192, 0x0192 },
{ 0x0218, 0x021B }, { 0x02C6, 0x02C7 }, { 0x02D8, 0x02D9 },
{ 0x02DB, 0x02DD }, { 0x1E02, 0x1E03 }, { 0x1E0A, 0x1E0B },
{ 0x1E1E, 0x1E1F }, { 0x1E40, 0x1E41 }, { 0x1E56, 0x1E57 },
{ 0x1E60, 0x1E61 }, { 0x1E6A, 0x1E6B }, { 0x1E80, 0x1E85 },
{ 0x1EF2, 0x1EF3 }, { 0x2013, 0x2015 }, { 0x2018, 0x201A },
{ 0x201C, 0x201E }, { 0x2020, 0x2022 }, { 0x2026, 0x2026 },
{ 0x2030, 0x2030 }, { 0x2039, 0x203A }, { 0x20AC, 0x20AC },
{ 0x2122, 0x2122 }
};
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