On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:06 -0700, Stefan Baums wrote: > Please do not package this font as is. It has already been packaged, no-one has sponsored the upload yet [1]. BTW, thanks go to the three of you for the interesting discussion on fonts :) I'm not very familiar with OpenType/fonts, or editing them, so I'd have to defer any changes to Mark. I initially wanted to package Mark's MPH Yangon Burmese Unicode font, but it had problems with freetype rendering the characters wrongly (they became widely spaced), so I deferred that packaging until these problems can be resolved and so I did Damase in order to learn how to package fonts in the meantime. The freetype developers are looking into it, but they don't have much time. If either of you could help diagnose this, that would be excellent. My motivation for this was to support Burmese Unicode on Burma Indymedia [2] and in free software in general. Mark tells me that Longhorn will support Burmese, so it would be good to beat them to it. I note that there is a burmese keyboard map in xkb, but no locale information for glibc (and no working "free" fonts). Initially, we plan to support Burmese and Karen using the Wwin_Burmese and KNU ASCII-based fonts with a WYSIWYG editor called HTMLArea, and later write a script to convert from these fonts to Unicode. We have an organising list at [3]. 1. http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/ttf-mph-2b-damase/ 2. http://burma.indymedia.org http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcBurmaTech 3. http://lists.indymedia.org/imc-burma-tech -- bye, pabs
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