Package: fonts-gfs-neohellenic Followup-For: Bug #680936 Thanks for all the corrections and rewriting. Trying to summarize it with the last proposed corrections:
modern Greek font family with matching Latin Neohellenic is a Greek font family characterized by round, even pen strokes. It consists of several weights (normal, italic, bold, and bold italic) as well as a Latin version. .. Former Greek types had harked back to classical models. In 1927, Victor Scholderer chose instead to revive one which had first appeared in a 1492 printing of Macrobius attributed to Joannes Rubeus. In 1993-4 the typeface was digitized by the Greek Font Society, with the addition of a new set of epigraphic symbols. I added a patch for the control file changing the description according to this consensus.
--- control 2011-10-08 07:53:36.000000000 +0200 +++ control.new 2012-08-15 12:08:30.695433403 +0200 @@ -9,27 +9,13 @@ Section: fonts Priority: optional Homepage: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr/ -Description: new Greek font family with matching Latin - The design of new Greek typefaces always followed the growing needs - of the Classical Studies in the major European Universities. - Furthermore, by the end of the 19th century bibliology had become an - established section of Historical Studies, and, as John Bowman - commented, the prevailing attitude was that Greek types should adhere - to a lost idealized, yet undefined, greekness of yore. Especially in - Great Britain this tendency remained unchallenged in the first - decades of the 20th century, both by Richard Proctor, curator of the - incunabula section in the British Museum Library and his successor - Victor Scholderer. In 1927, Scholderer, on behalf of the Society for - the Promotion of Greek Studies, got involved in choosing and - consulting the design and production of a Greek type called New - Hellenic cut by the Lanston Monotype Corporation. He chose the - revival of a round, and almost monoline type which had first appeared - in 1492 in the edition of Macrobius, ascribable to the printing shop - of Giovanni Rosso (Joannes Rubeus) in Venice. New Hellenic was the - only successful typeface in Great Britain after the introduction of - Porson Greek well over a century before. The type, since to 1930’s, - was also well received in Greece, albeit with a different design for - Ksi and Omega. GFS digitized the typeface (1993-1994) funded by the - Athens Archeological Society with the addition of a new set of - epigraphical symbols. Later (2000) more weights were added (italic, - bold and bold italic) as well as a latin version. +Description: modern Greek font family with matching Latin + Neohellenic is a Greek font family characterized by round, even pen + strokes. It consists of several weights (normal, italic, bold, and + bold italic) as well as a Latin version. + . + Former Greek types had harked back to classical models. In 1927, + Victor Scholderer chose instead to revive one which had first + appeared in a 1492 printing of Macrobius attributed to Joannes + Rubeus. In 1993-4 the typeface was digitized by the Greek Font + Society, with the addition of a new set of epigraphic symbols.