On Tuesday 06 April 2004 4:07 am, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > The whole font subject is a big mess in Debian. > > There seems to be no policy about fonts, and nobody knows where to > put them, or how to handle them. I don't know if it's a mess on the technical side of things, but it hasn't been easy for me to find authorative information about how Debian handles fonts. > Defoma/Fontconfig/X guys please tell (or better, write down) how > things should work! > > 1. In what directory all the (new) fonts should be/put in > 2. What fontpaths need to be set/modified for new dirs > (X/fontconfig/etc) 3. What's the purpose of defoma.. what does it do > for the fonts 4. what is x-ttcidfont-conf and how it relates to these > other things I think I understand the high-level of what defoma and x-ttcidfont-conf are meant to do, and I can make font packages that register with defoma, but I still kind of feel like I'm doing things the really hard way... Anyway, I guess for now I'll just use best practices from other font packages, but I think a sub-policy on fonts would be pretty useful. I'd be happy to contribute, but I've still got to learn better how it's done now myself. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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