Re: Using defoma for building package ?
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:53:52AM +0200, artefact wrote:
> Le 28.04.2006 11:42, Pierre Habouzit a écrit :
>
> >Le Ven 28 Avril 2006 11:06, artefact a écrit :
> >
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>I am packaging a game, Wormux. This game use the font DejaVuSans
> >>which is already a Debian package. How can I use Defoma (I think this
> >>is the tool to use for this) to get this font path when building my
> >>package so that it could depend on the DejaVuSans package rather than
> >>including the font in the wormux-data package. Or maybe does it exist
> >>a debhelper for this but I can not get is name...
> >>Note: I RTFM :-) and had a look at several others game package
> >>(penguin-racer, gltron and some others) and they all embbed the font
> >>files into the -data package.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I think you can get safely it with:
> >
> >dirname $(grep '^begin ' /etc/defoma/hints/ttf-dejavu.hints | \
> > head -1 | cut -d' ' -f 2)
> >
> >but it may exist some more conventionnal way, I'm far from knowing
> >defoma ;)
> >
> >
> Thank you, maybe it is not the best method, but it works ;-)
> But, as I can not satisfy with simple things, I would want defoma (or
> something else) to give me the name of an alternate font (looking quite
> like to), in case of the DejaVuSans font does not exist for my locale.
> The trouble is this game has been translated into Russian and could be
> in Arabic too. What mechanisms exists to get the name of related fonts
> in non latin alphabet ?
DejaVu fonts support Russian.
(And /usr/share/doc/ttf-dejavu/langcover.txt.gz says that DejaVuSans supports Arabic.)
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