Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Packaging teh Conakry font for Debian/Ubuntu
Hi Christian,
On 13 Dec 2009, at 17:16, Christian Perrier wrote:
The Debian/Ubuntu fonts packaging team is considering the packaging
of the Conakry font you designed, as a .deb file included in the
distributions so that users don't have to install it manually as you
describe on http://www.evertype.com/fonts/nko/
That would be nice; I would rather have a link (a permanent link) to a
Linux version from my site anyway. But... I hope you are not stripping
out the Mac support in what you are doing with the font. I am not sure
what you are doing really.
The packaging of the font is easy. However, when we package fonts,
we generally try to have the package buildable and, therefore, we
generally prefer building from the FontForge .sfd files when they're
available.
I don't use FontForge.
That also makes modifications of the font easier if people want to
go this way (and provided they respect the OFL license, of course).
What I hope for is that Conakry (with that name) can be made to work
on Mac, Linux, and Windows (though I despair of the last) distributed
in one font that will work on all platforms. Unfortunately I never
worked out how exactly to get the Linux to work.
There were some bug reports from users about input support. A letter
may have two diacritics, one above and one below. But the internal
mappings should work in both directions: Letter+Abovemark+Belowmark
and Letter+Belowmark+Abovemark.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Reply to: