Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Andrey V. Panovpa...@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru wrote: The second beta version of Heuristica fonts is released. This version adds kerning for Cyrillic, adds more Cyrillic and other characters (e.g. Euro). Link to download: ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ .tar.xz? What on Earth is that? Alexandre
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Andrey V. Panovpa...@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru wrote: The second beta version of Heuristica fonts is released. This version adds kerning for Cyrillic, adds more Cyrillic and other characters (e.g. Euro). Link to download: ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ .tar.xz? What on Earth is that? AFAICT it's an improved compression format: http://tukaani.org/xz/ Look for xz-utils: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xz-utils http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/xz-utils Alexandre -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Link to download: ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ .tar.xz? What on Earth is that? AFAICT it's an improved compression format: http://tukaani.org/xz/ Look for xz-utils: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/xz-utils http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/xz-utils So we have to be using most recent unstable Ubuntu to be able to open the files now? :) Ha, ha ha, nice one :-) No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it: git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages (right-hand menu) or on the upstream website... Or motivate maintainers for your preferred environment... Alexandre -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Heuristica 0.2
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it: git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages (right-hand menu) or on the upstream website... Or motivate maintainers for your preferred environment... Incidentally, XZ sounds very much like Russian ХЗ acronym which can be roughly translated as hell knows meaning How do I know? :) I'm wondering if Andrey realized that :) Alexandre
