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[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#445686: marked as done (ttf-dejavu-extra: please be consistent in the name of italic fonts)

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Package: ttf-dejavu-extra
Version: 2.20-1
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

the latest update closed bug #440142 [1] and this brought to my
attention the fact that some DejaVu variants are called Italic, while
others Oblique:

=====
luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -L ttf-dejavu-extra | grep Italic
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerifCondensed-Italic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSerif-Italic.ttf

luca@gismo:~$ dpkg -L ttf-dejavu-extra | grep Oblique
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-BoldOblique.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Oblique.ttf

luca@gismo:~$
=====

This happens in the package description as well.

While I'm not a font expert, I guess that italic and oblique refers to
the same font variant.  This can generates confusion.

Could one name can be chosen once for all, please?

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440142

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Versions of packages ttf-dejavu-extra depends on:
ii  defoma                       0.11.10-0.1 Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  ttf-dejavu-core              2.20-1      Vera font family derivate with add

ttf-dejavu-extra recommends no packages.

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Hello,

7 жовтня 2007 о 20:50 +0200 Luca Capello написав(-ла):
> While I'm not a font expert, I guess that italic and oblique refers to
> the same font variant.  This can generates confusion.
> 
Italic and Oblique are not the same. See
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type
and
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italic_type

> Could one name can be chosen once for all, please?
No, unless someone draw Italic glyphs for Sans and Mono. I'm closing this
bug now.

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