Bug#515565: Allow allrunes fonts to be used by X applications
On 17.02.09 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
> On 17.02.09 Matt Kraai (kraai@ftbfs.org) wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 09:54:27PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
Hi,
> > > 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.
>
We got another E-Mail from Paul Wise, telling that he'll remove
defoma for squeeze. So we don't need a defoma integration, instead we
should use fontconfig. Paul gave a short introduction how to
implement an integration. Anybody willing to do it?
H.
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