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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ttf-gfs-solomos
* Version : 1.0
* Upstream Author : George D. Matthiopoulos
(Greek Font Society)
* URL :
http://www.greekfontsociety.org/pages/en_typefaces19th.html
* License : Open Font License
* Description : Ancient Greek font
>From the middle of the 19th century an italic font with many
calligraphic overtones was introduced into Greek printing. Its source is
unknown, but it almost certainly was the product of a German or Italian
foundry. In the first type specimen printed in Greece by the typecutter
K. Miliadis (1850), the font was listed anonymously along others of
11pts and in the Gr. Doumas' undated specimen appeared as «11pt Greek
inclined». For most of the second half of the century the type was used
extensively as an italic for emphasis in words, sentences or exerpts. In
1889, the folio size Type Specimen of Anestis Konstantinidis'
publishing, printing and type founding establishment also included the
type as «Greek inclined [9 & 12 pt]».
Nevertheless, the excessively calligraphic style of the characters,
combined with the steep and uncomfortable obliqueness of the capitals,
was out of favour in the 20th century and the type did not survive the
conformity of the mechanical type cutting and casting. The font has been
digitally revived, as part of our typographic tradition, by George D.
Matthiopoulos and is part of GFS' type library under the name GFS
Solomos, in commemoration of the great Greek poet of the 19th century,
Dionisios Solomos.
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Source: ttf-gfs-solomos
Source-Version: 1.000-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
ttf-gfs-solomos, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1.diff.gz
to pool/main/t/ttf-gfs-solomos/ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1.diff.gz
ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1.dsc
to pool/main/t/ttf-gfs-solomos/ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1.dsc
ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1_all.deb
to pool/main/t/ttf-gfs-solomos/ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1_all.deb
ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000.orig.tar.gz
to pool/main/t/ttf-gfs-solomos/ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 421237@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas.spalinger@sil.org> (supplier of updated ttf-gfs-solomos package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)
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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:15:31 +0200
Source: ttf-gfs-solomos
Binary: ttf-gfs-solomos
Architecture: source all
Version: 1.000-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas.spalinger@sil.org>
Description:
ttf-gfs-solomos - ancient Greek oblique font
Closes: 421237
Changes:
ttf-gfs-solomos (1.000-1) unstable; urgency=low
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* Initial release under the OFL (Open Font License) version 1.1
(Closes: #421237)
Files:
36e3ebab494a55b510f4cb6e4f9f24ec 960 x11 optional ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1.dsc
4cdb519b254bcb0b72903c08c777db7d 220144 x11 optional ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000.orig.tar.gz
f45a43ab49c25bfb26d0f3ca307905c6 4311 x11 optional ttf-gfs-solomos_1.000-1.diff.gz
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