Hi, I have made ebuild for installing "Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts" in Gentoo Linux System. Bangla is my native language. Bangla is the one of the Language spoken in India and Bangladesh. Historically Bangla is originated from a language called "Prakrit" which had its root in Sanskrit.
Following project is developing Unicode compliant Open Type Bengla fonts http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/index.html It is a subproject of http://www.bengalinux.org/ http://www.bengalinux.org/ Possibly it is the first Bangla Font support initiative for Gentoo Linux. I have submitted the formal inclusion request at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26381 iti Archan ----cut here---- # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 DESCRIPTION="Unicode compliant Open Type Bangla fonts" HOMEPAGE="http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/index.html"; SRC_BASE="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont"; SRC_URI="${SRC_BASE}/Akaash.pkg/0.8.5/Akaash-0.8.5.tar.gz ${SRC_BASE}/Ani.pkg/0.8.0/Ani-0.8.0.tar.gz ${SRC_BASE}/Likhan.pkg/0.5/Likhan-0.5.tar.gz ${SRC_BASE}/Sagar.pkg/0.6.0/Sagar-0.60.tar.gz" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86" DEPEND="virtual/x11" S="${WORKDIR}" FONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/ttf/bangla/free-bangla-font/" src_unpack() { cd ${S} for gz in ${A}; do tar -xzf ${DISTDIR}/${gz} done } src_install() { insopts -m0644 insinto ${FONTDIR} doins ${S}/Akaash/*ttf doins ${S}/ani/*ttf doins ${S}/Likhan-0.5/*ttf doins ${S}/Sagar/*ttf mkfontscale ${D}/${FONTDIR} newins ${D}/${FONTDIR}/fonts.scale fonts.dir } pkg_postinst() { einfo "You need you add following line into /etc/X11/XftConfig" einfo "" einfo "\t dir \"${FONTDIR}\"" einfo "" } pkg_postrm(){ einfo "You need you remove following line into /etc/X11/XftConfig" einfo "" einfo "\t dir \"${FONTDIR}\"" einfo "" } ----cut here---- -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
