Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-08 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Quoting Davide Viti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> I'll give a go at this: we might save a good amount of bytes removing >> duplicates. >> Note that dejavu is the default font for g-i, so most languages would >> probably share the Latin range of glyphs f

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-08 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Davide Viti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I'll give a go at this: we might save a good amount of bytes removing > duplicates. > Note that dejavu is the default font for g-i, so most languages would > probably share the Latin range of glyphs from it and not from freefont. I just tried to strip

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 January 2008, Davide Viti wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:35:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > > I forget why we still have dejavu. Davide: what are the chances of > > getting rid of that? > > ttf-dejavu has been the default font used in g-i for awhile now, so if > the question is why

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
Hi, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:37:38PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 06 January 2008, Davide Viti wrote: > However, I would expect that for other fonts just using the freefont Latin > range would produce perfectly good results (provided the sizing is > comparable) and especially if their L

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
Hi Frans, On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:35:32PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > I forget why we still have dejavu. Davide: what are the chances of getting > rid of that? ttf-dejavu has been the default font used in g-i for awhile now, so if the question is why we still have freefont, that's because it's

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 07 January 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > which size should we use inside g-i? > > default fontsize is 9pt but some languages were set at bigger size > > I think that it would be better if the Amharic translation team > comment on that. > > If possible, it would be nice to be closer to

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Viti
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:14:19AM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > which size should we use inside g-i? > > default fontsize is 9pt but some languages were set at bigger size > > I think that it would be better if the Amharic translation team > comme

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Davide Viti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:30:38PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: >> I've prepared a pdf file [1] with all the glyphs provided by the font. >> >> regards, >> Davide >> >> [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-sil-abyssinica.pdf > > > ...and here som

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 January 2008, Davide Viti wrote: > > The font overlaps in the Latin base range: U+0020-U+00FF (actually, > > the font also covers ISO-8859-1), that's all. > > according to some tests done a while ago with CJK fonts, better > results are achieved if each separate font provides its own l

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Frans Pop
Thanks for the answers. Given that there are no obvious problems in the package, I have no problem with adding it when localechooser is uploaded with Amharic activated. On Sunday 06 January 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > > What is its size? > > 220kb Hmm. That's the package size. Installed si

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 12:30:38PM +0100, Davide Viti wrote: > I've prepared a pdf file [1] with all the glyphs provided by the font. > > regards, > Davide > > [1] http://alioth.debian.org/~zinosat-guest/ttf-sil-abyssinica.pdf ...and here some screenshots using the font at different fontsizes:

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-06 Thread Davide Viti
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 07:40:17AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > > I assume this was because the glyphs needed are not in freefont? > > Yes. The Ethiopic Unicode Bloc: U+1200-U+1399 just checked and the above range is not in Freefont and Dejavu either > > Are there any overlaps with the free

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-05 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Saturday 05 January 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > > From the work done when the work on Amharic started quite a while ago, > > the ttf-sil-abyssinica font is suggested by the translator for good > > rendering of that language. > > > > So, I asked its m

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 05 January 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > What is its size? > What fonts are included in it? If there are, do we need all of them? > Are there any overlaps with the freefont udeb? Should any of those > overlaps be excluded? Are any ranges included that are not used in D-I and should thus be

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-05 Thread Otavio Salvador
Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > From the work done when the work on Amharic started quite a while ago, > the ttf-sil-abyssinica font is suggested by the translator for good > rendering of that language. > > So, I asked its maintainer to provide a udeb package which just > appeared

Re: Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-05 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 05 January 2008, Christian Perrier wrote: > From the work done when the work on Amharic started quite a while ago, > the ttf-sil-abyssinica font is suggested by the translator for good > rendering of that language. > > So, I asked its maintainer to provide a udeb package I assume this

Adding ttf-sil-abyssinica-udeb to packages used in the GTK installer?

2008-01-05 Thread Christian Perrier
From the work done when the work on Amharic started quite a while ago, the ttf-sil-abyssinica font is suggested by the translator for good rendering of that language. So, I asked its maintainer to provide a udeb package which just appeared today. So, everything is now ready to add this package to