Bug#515565: Allow allrunes fonts to be used by X applications

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 17.02.09 Matt Kraai (kraai@ftbfs.org) wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> > Matt Kraai <kraai@ftbfs.org> wrote:

Hi,

> > > Would it be possible to make the allrunes fonts available to X
> > > applications, as is done for the Latin Modern fonts in the
> > > lmodern package?
> > 
> > In principle, yes. However, IIRC we need some meta-information on
> > the fonts in the proper format. In order to really make it
> > happen, someone will probably have to help us here.
> 
> What meta-information and/or format?  I'll try to help out.
> 
I guess the most important information we need is the hints file for
defoma. There are tools to generate these files automatically however
the quality of the generated file is not very high. The generated
files have to be fine tuned manually.

H.
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