Bug#680936: package description too historical
Package: fonts-gfs-neohellenic
Followup-For: Bug #680936
Thanks for all the corrections and rewriting. Trying to summarize it
with the last proposed corrections:
modern Greek font family with matching Latin
Neohellenic is a Greek font family characterized by round, even pen
strokes. It consists of several weights (normal, italic, bold, and bold
italic) as well as a Latin version.
..
Former Greek types had harked back to classical models. In 1927, Victor
Scholderer chose instead to revive one which had first appeared in a
1492 printing of Macrobius attributed to Joannes Rubeus. In 1993-4 the
typeface was digitized by the Greek Font Society, with the addition of a
new set of epigraphic symbols.
I added a patch for the control file changing the description according
to this consensus.
--- control 2011-10-08 07:53:36.000000000 +0200
+++ control.new 2012-08-15 12:08:30.695433403 +0200
@@ -9,27 +9,13 @@
Section: fonts
Priority: optional
Homepage: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/
-Description: new Greek font family with matching Latin
- The design of new Greek typefaces always followed the growing needs
- of the Classical Studies in the major European Universities.
- Furthermore, by the end of the 19th century bibliology had become an
- established section of Historical Studies, and, as John Bowman
- commented, the prevailing attitude was that Greek types should adhere
- to a lost idealized, yet undefined, greekness of yore. Especially in
- Great Britain this tendency remained unchallenged in the first
- decades of the 20th century, both by Richard Proctor, curator of the
- incunabula section in the British Museum Library and his successor
- Victor Scholderer. In 1927, Scholderer, on behalf of the Society for
- the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and
- consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New
- Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the
- revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared
- in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop
- of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the
- only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of
- Porson Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930’s,
- was also well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for
- Ksi and Omega. GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the
- Athens Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of
- epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic,
- bold and bold italic) as well as a latin version.
+Description: modern Greek font family with matching Latin
+ Neohellenic is a Greek font family characterized by round, even pen
+ strokes. It consists of several weights (normal, italic, bold, and
+ bold italic) as well as a Latin version.
+ .
+ Former Greek types had harked back to classical models. In 1927,
+ Victor Scholderer chose instead to revive one which had first
+ appeared in a 1492 printing of Macrobius attributed to Joannes
+ Rubeus. In 1993-4 the typeface was digitized by the Greek Font
+ Society, with the addition of a new set of epigraphic symbols.
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