* Should font-build-system compile sfd fonts?
@ 2019-05-03 7:40 Brendan Tildesley
2019-05-03 15:23 ` L p R n d n
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From: Brendan Tildesley @ 2019-05-03 7:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: guix-devel
I'm calling for anyone's opinion on this. Currently there are a few
fonts which more-or-less copy-paste the same code for compiling sfd
files in to ttf and otf, which requires fontforge. I wish to add another
font, but didn't want to add to this duplication. Most fonts don't
require it, but it wouldn't be harmful, apart from dragging in
fontforge, would adding a 'build phase that does this to
font-build-system be reasonable. I'm not actually sure how to add a
required native-input to a build system. Or is there a better idea?
Making a whole new sfd-font-build-system, or defining a build-sdf-fonts
symbol that could be added with modify-phases and adding fontforge to
native-inputs?
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* Re: Should font-build-system compile sfd fonts?
2019-05-03 7:40 Should font-build-system compile sfd fonts? Brendan Tildesley
@ 2019-05-03 15:23 ` L p R n d n
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From: L p R n d n @ 2019-05-03 15:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Brendan Tildesley; +Cc: guix-devel
Hello,
Brendan Tildesley <mail@brendan.scot> writes:
> I'm calling for anyone's opinion on this. Currently there are a few
> fonts which more-or-less copy-paste the same code for compiling sfd
> files in to ttf and otf, which requires fontforge. I wish to add another
> font, but didn't want to add to this duplication. Most fonts don't
> require it, but it wouldn't be harmful, apart from dragging in
> fontforge, would adding a 'build phase that does this to
> font-build-system be reasonable. I'm not actually sure how to add a
> required native-input to a build system. Or is there a better idea?
> Making a whole new sfd-font-build-system, or defining a build-sdf-fonts
> symbol that could be added with modify-phases and adding fontforge to
> native-inputs?
Maybe adding an optional phase like #:glib-or-gtk? for meson?
We would get a #sfd-font? argument in the font-build-system.
What do you think?
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