Re: Font package naming convention

[ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)]

Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> 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).

OK, it makes sense to me.

If there’s rough consensus on this, the next step would be to write this
informal rule in the manual, and to update package names.

Any volunteer?  Alex?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.