From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Font package naming convention
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 18:49:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141102174935.GF6865@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ioixo71g.fsf@gnu.org>
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 06:18:19PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Some of the fonts created by foundries are often referred to it using
> the foundry’s name, such as “Bitstream Vera”; there are also
> counter-examples, like Gentium, Charis, etc. (by SIL.)
>
> So, again very informally, I would suggest to use the foundry name in
> cases where people expect to see it, and in cases where it removes
> ambiguity with similarly-named fonts.
>
> What do people think?
I think it would be nice to add the foundry when it is know, such as
sil-gentium etc.; personally I find it an interesting information to have
(we would get a complete list of all packages sil fonts, for instance).
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-02 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-28 6:53 [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add 'ttf-liberation' Alex Kost
2014-10-28 8:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-29 22:16 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 7:27 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 7:56 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 12:52 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 13:36 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 18:55 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-30 17:20 ` Font package naming convention Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-30 17:32 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-30 22:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-10-30 18:55 ` Alex Kost
[not found] ` <20141030191743.GB19999@debian.eduroam.u-bordeaux.fr>
2014-10-30 22:02 ` Alex Kost
2014-10-31 17:58 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-31 18:00 ` Andreas Enge
2014-10-31 21:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 9:52 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-02 17:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-02 17:49 ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2014-11-03 8:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-03 9:30 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-03 13:36 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-03 20:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-19 9:01 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-19 10:22 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-20 7:09 ` Alex Kost
2014-11-23 20:13 ` [PATCH] gnu: Add 'font-liberation' Alex Kost
2014-11-24 14:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-11-01 9:36 ` Font package naming convention Alex Kost
2014-11-01 9:45 ` Andreas Enge
2014-11-01 10:55 ` Alex Kost
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