Bug#299771: ITP: ttf-antp -- Antykwa Poltawskiego font family

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

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Miros/law Baran <baran@knm.org.pl> schrieb:

> 16.03.2005 pisze Adam Borowski (kilobyte@mimuw.edu.pl):
>
>> * Package name    : ttf-antp
>>   Version         : 0.51
>>   Upstream Author : Bogus?aw Jackowski, Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk
>> * URL             : http://www.janusz.nowacki.strefa.pl/poltawski-e.html
>> * License         : GPL
>>   Description     : Antykwa Poltawskiego font family
>>   Long desc       :
>>  This font was designed by Adam Poltawski in 1923-28 as a result of his
>>  research on readability of letter forms.  Even though this typeface is
>>  pretty dated now, and the readability of screen fonts obeys different
>>  rules than it does on paper, this font still beats Bitstream-Vera when
>>  applied to large blocks of text.
>>   Packages        : http://angband.pl/debian/
>
> The font is included in the tetex-base package, along with other Type1
> GUST-sponsored fonts (Antykwa Toruńska etc.) - I think such a package
> will be redundant.

Well, tetex-base only has the afm and pfb files, along with some
TeX-specific stuff.  There are no TrueType fonts; having them might be
worth a package.


With regard to the additional hinting you, Adam, did - can this be
applied to the Type1 fonts, too?  Which sources did you use - AFAIK the
original format is Metafont?  Did you submit your new hinting to the
upstream authors at gust.or.pl?

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer