Bug#844985: ITP: fonts-churchslavonic -- This package provides OpenType and TrueType fonts for Church Slavonic (cu)
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 09:50:47AM +0300, Aleksandr Andreev wrote:
> * Package name : fonts-churchslavonic
> * URL : http://sci.ponomar.net/
> Description : Fonts for Church Slavonic language
>
> This package provides OpenType and TrueType fonts for the Church Slavonic (cu)
> language. Fonts use OpenType and SIL Graphite features and Unicode encoding.
It would be nice if you could extend the description to mention how it
differs from any other font with a complete coverage of Cyrillic (as opposed
to WGL-4 which has modern european Cyrillic only).
>From a brief glance at documents linked from the site, I got the impression
that the points are:
* presence of all relevant glyphs
* historic appearance of type
* ligatures (both as SIL Graphite and manual PUA hacks)
Also, technically Church Slavonic is a language rather than a script, and
because of its focus on history it might be good to mention Cyrillic vs
Glagolitic; of these fonts only Menaion has Glagolitic.
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