Bug#156852: ITP: ttf-dustismo -- general purpose gpl'ed truetype sans serif font
Hi!
I have missed the discussion about this font. My opinion about the
name of the font packages is that they should use the convention
ttf[-foundryname]-fontorfamilyname or ttf-foundryname.
A couple of years ago I created the package scalable-cyrfonts. I
decided to put in it all Cyrillic fonts I know about. Now I realise
that this was not a smart decision because all Cyrillic fonts contain
also the Latin script, so this package can be usefull also to the
Latin users. So now I am considering name changing.
Instead of a package ttf-latin I suggest to create a metapackage
scalable-latin-fonts. It should depend not only on TrueType, but on
any other good scalable Latin fonts.
My last note is about the TrueType format. When a few months ago I
tried to switch my environment to UTF-8 I realised that the XFree86
backends don't support multibyte encodings for Type1 fonts. Thats why
I created package ttf-cyrillic. I used the scripting language of
pfaedit in order to convert fonts automaticaly in TrueType format
during the compilation of the source package. I saw that the fonts
were oughfull on the screen. This is because the hinting of the
TrueType fonts doesn't work well in Debian due to problems with
patents. I've discussed the problem with friends; we concluded that
we should use CID fonts instead of TrueType fonts.
Anton Zinoviev
P.S. I'd like to ask you about your packaging plans.
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