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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

  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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