On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:28:48PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
...
> 2001-12-21. Also, there is no license provided for the fonts.
>
...
The fonts and the metatype software are gpl'ed.
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
> learning how to make our own tt fonts?
Font creation is kind of a science. I'm really no expert but when I
spend some time in TeX and Metafont some years ago I've learned that
i
Florent Rougon wrote:
> >>> type("dfsfsd")
>
>
> I don't know where this 'string' comes from.
Which Python version are you using?
Python 2.1.3 (#1, Jul 29 2002, 22:34:51)
[GCC 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)] on linux2
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> t
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:34:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Michael Cardenas wrote:
>
> > Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
> > learning how to make our own tt fonts?
> Font creation is kind of a science. I'm really no expert but when
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Zimmerman writes:
>
>This is certainly suspicious, since all Python 'string' objects are supposed
>to have a 'lower()' method, as far as I know.
>
>But that line is one which was added in the security update. What version
>of Python are you running?
Python
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Which is why it would be better for someone to donate their time and
>> make some free as in speech fonts.
> I wonder if we could share this problem with the TeX community. Those
> people might have the same problem. Perhaps some Metafont to Truetype
Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >>> type("dfsfsd")
> >
[...]
> Which Python version are you using?
This was typed under 2.2, as written in my mail.
> >>> type('foo')
>
> >>> type("foo")
>
Yes, this is what you get with 2.1. But David's exception traceback
looked more
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 20:01, Martin Sarsale wrote:
>
> Are there any 'opensource' font authors out
> there doing anthing interesting?
>
Some GPL TT fonts:
http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/README
It also points to an application
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:19:21AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 06:48:06PM -0500, Scott Dier wrote:
>
> Some GPL TT fonts:
>
> http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/README
Forget about it. My mistake: no TT.
J
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:19:21AM +0200, Jesus Climent wrote:
> > Are there any 'opensource' font authors out
> > there doing anthing interesting?
>
> Some GPL TT fonts:
>
> http://www.ntrnet.net/~jmknoble/fonts/README
>
> It also points to an application he used to create them.
These are not
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:30AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
[..]
> I've contacted some people, to see if anyone knows of any public
> domain, high quality true type fonts. Also pfaedit seems like it might
> be able to generate good truetype fonts, but it's hinting code needs
> some work.
Th
On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 10:31:47AM -0500, Drew Scott Daniels wrote:
> I think it's worth supporting as an interesting program. It might produce
> faster binaries, it might produce smaller binaries (usually both go hand
> in hand, but not always)
I'd just like to chime in on this. I actually suffer
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:30AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> My main concern at this point is that it may be infeasible to generate
> high quality truetype fonts without using apple's patented truetype
> instructions (which is only a small subset of instructions, but they
> are commonly used
Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc
> Is someone going to package this for Debian?
One person has announced that he is going to try on the list, though
they are not an official debian developer. I have made a package, too,
and will make it
Hello!
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:50, Sam Vilain wrote:
> > There are some limitations with it. The biggest limitation when
> > compared to my SE Linux work is it's lack of flexibility. I can
> > setup a SE Linux chroot, then do a bind mount of /home/www, and
> > grant read-only access to the files and dire
>> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We should count ourselves lucky that we don't have stable releases using
> each of the GCC 2.9x, 3.0, and 3.1 ABIs.
Does anyone have thoughts on a Debian-wide migration towards GCC 3.2?
(Or, for that matter, towards *anything* in the 3.x line).
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:52:39PM +0400, Dmitry Glushenok wrote:
> i want to get some experiance with debian developing and searching for
> developer who have a time to check package. package is guardian for
> snort (a lightweight intrustion detection system).
> guardian watches the output from
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:30:01PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> This proposal would also allow, say bochs, to provide i386 too (although
> I think more work might be needed here).
This would be stretching it, but if bochs can run them transparently, maybe.
In particular, you would need a good scoring
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 05:28:48PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
> learning how to make our own tt fonts?
A good font is a work of art. Your suggestion can be paraphrased, "how
about just starting a project and learning how
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Do we really need a font author? How about just starting a project and
>> learning how to make our own tt fonts?
>
> A good font is a work of art. Your suggestion can be paraphrased, "how
> about just starting a project and learning how to make our own
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:12:41 -0500, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> Does anyone have thoughts on a Debian-wide migration towards GCC 3.2?
> (Or, for that matter, towards *anything* in the 3.x line).
The upcoming ABI change from 3.1 to 3.2 is the reason we've not switched to
3.1 as the Debian-wi
Hi Dimitry,
Dimitry Glushenok wrote:
> i want to get some experiance with debian developing and searching for
> developer who have a time to check package. package is guardian for
> snort (a lightweight intrustion detection system).
> guardian watches the output from snort and uses ipchains or ip
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:10:08AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
AT>> I wonder if we could share this problem with the TeX community.
AT>> Those people might have the same problem. Perhaps some Metafont to
AT>> Truetype converter might do the trick??? Just an idea.
MC> I've contacted some people
On 2002-08-14 (Wed) 11:23 David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aug 14 18:48:03 2002 qrunner(1300): AttributeError : 'string' object
> has no attribute 'lower'
>
> Is anyone else having trouble since the new version was released?
Yes, my colleague ran into the same problem. He figured out th
Hi Rene,
there is sources: ftp://ftp.rasko.ru/pub/debian/guardian/
(guardian-1.6.0)
now version 1.7 available and i debianize it as soon as possible
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:39:04PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Dimitry,
>
> Dimitry Glushenok wrote:
> > i want to get some experiance w
> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Glushenok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dmitry> Hello! i want to get some experiance with debian
Dmitry> developing and searching for developer who have a time to
Dmitry> check package. package is guardian for snort (a
Dmitry> lightweight intrustion detectio
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:36:42PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> Actually, I don't see why we should use TrueType fonts instead of Type1
> fonts. There is a set of excellent Type1 fonts from URW included in
> gsfonts package under GPL; there is an extension of these fonts with
> Cyrillic glyphs
15.08.2002 pisze Ben Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > Can someone explain what is the problem with switching to Type1
> > altogether?
> Portability.
Portability and the quality of the Type1 rasterizer in X, I'd say.
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Hello all,
Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to
release my font under. I looked at all the options
and decided to just go with the standard GPL.
I have spent a lot of time on this font and it is
nearly done. it is a pretty standard sans-serif set,
including all the accent and spe
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to
> release my font under. I looked at all the options
> and decided to just go with the standard GPL.
Great!
Do you have any example of the font on your web page? I
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:57:33PM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote:
> I can't look at mailman right now, but some observations that might
> help:
>
> - with python 2.1:
>
> >>> 'barstring'.foo()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: foo
>
> - with
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Download the font here:
> http://www.cheapskatefonts.com/fonts/Dustismo.zip
Hm. I tried dropping it in as a replacement for tuxpaint's current font
(simply by renaming the fonts in /usr/share/tuxpaint/fonts out of the way
and copying
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:09:35PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> You won't find out if there's good enough talent hiding inside you
> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or
> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't
> produce a fine font
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:15:30AM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
BA> But the pfaedit docs say that "PfaEdit will degrade the appearance
BA> of most truetype fonts" with the exception being those that are not
BA> hinted at all.
Aha, that is why Valek had to manually adjust hinting. Well, this mean
Russell Coker writes:
> If software can't be freely used for any purpose then it can't be
> released under the GPL. The NSA assert that they have the right to
> release under the GPL and that therefore the patent issues have been
> dealt with.
Was the work done by NSA employees? If so it can be
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:39:13PM +0300, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote:
> BA> Portability.
>
> Can you elaborate? Which of Debian-supported platforms to not have Type1
> fonts support, and why?
You are focusing on the wrong problem. Application designers choose
TrueType for portability. SDL applica
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 11:02, John Hasler wrote:
> Russell Coker writes:
> > If software can't be freely used for any purpose then it can't be
> > released under the GPL. The NSA assert that they have the right to
> > release under the GPL and that therefore the patent issues have been
> > dealt wi
Shaya Potter writes:
> At least when I worked at NRL, I thought it created this murky situation
> of "public domain" for us citizens (or in US not sure which) but not for
> anyone else.
In the US works of the US government are "public domain" for everyone.
However, it might be able to obtain and e
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:13:37PM +1000, David Fisher wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Zimmerman writes:
> >
> >precedence = ''
> >
> >does it fix the problem?
>
> I'll try that and report back when I get time to, which is very scarce at the
> moment. Thanks for your reply.
If th
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to
> release my font under. I looked at all the options
> and decided to just go with the standard GPL.
>
> I have spent a lot of time on this font and it is
> nearly d
Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or
>> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't
>> produce a fine font if you give up before trying.
>
> Fine, try it.
I am trying, only with a music font, as
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:38, John Hasler wrote:
> Shaya Potter writes:
> > At least when I worked at NRL, I thought it created this murky situation
> > of "public domain" for us citizens (or in US not sure which) but not for
> > anyone else.
>
> In the US works of the US government are "public domain
Sorry, what I think of as a full character set is
defineatly not what someone else might think of as a
full set (I only have experience with english text)..
As far as the characters you mentioned specifically
they should be there, in fact I can see them using
Dustismo right now (except for whi
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since nobody else has taken up the thread:
I am planning Debconf 3 to
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text,
> but you omit a good font, it's useless.
So all text editors should come with their own font?!
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Russell Coker writes:
> As the US government is prohibited from owning copyright they definately
> can't get a copyright in their own jurisdiction,...
The US government definitely is allowed to own copyrights. The restriction
is on _enforcing_ their copyrights on works of which they are author.
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:57:47PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> until you try and learn and try again. The first glyphs you'll do (or
> >> the first fonts, ftm) will be total crap. But you certainly won't
> >> produce a fine font if you give
#include
* Stephen Depooter [Wed, Aug 14 2002, 12:27:05AM]:
> I am just installing a Woody system (bf 2.4) on a 486 DX 33 tonight and
...
> invalid compressed format (err=2)
>
> System halted
IMHO such old boxes had lots of bugs in their LBA implementation (BIOS),
so I sometimes ended up in usin
* Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-15 18:20]:
> Since this will be the weekend after cofsino (Conference on Free
> Software in Norway)
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 06:47:21AM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks everyone for the advice on what license to
> release my font under. I looked at all the options
> and decided to just go with the standard GPL.
>
Great! In this thread:
Bug#156503: microsoft changed its pol
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:16, John Hasler wrote:
> Russell Coker writes:
> > As the US government is prohibited from owning copyright they definately
> > can't get a copyright in their own jurisdiction,...
>
> The US government definitely is allowed to own copyrights. The restriction
> is on _enforci
In case Dustin doesn't pick up on this today ...
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:32:15AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> I'll check it out asap. Have you viewed it in linux yet?
I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK in a few sizes and not
so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the hinti
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:24:02PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > If noone else has offered, I'd love to package this font for inclusion
> > in debian, or include it a free-ttfonts package with a few other gpl
> > tt fonts.
>
> I question the name free-ttfonts. The convention seems to be:
>
>
On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 06:39, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include
> * Stephen Depooter [Wed, Aug 14 2002, 12:27:05AM]:
> > I am just installing a Woody system (bf 2.4) on a 486 DX 33 tonight and
> ...
> > invalid compressed format (err=2)
> >
> > System halted
>
> IMHO such old boxes had lots of bugs
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On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Yes, you're right about removing the free part. I simply wanted to
> make a single package of truetype fonts for ease of use. I see now
> that there are a number of ttf packages, but they seem to all be asian
> charsets. I'm trying
Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make
uploads to?
debian-changelog-mode.el currently allows the user to set the
distribution field for an upload to multiple distributions, e.g.
xwatch (2.11-8) frozen unstable; urgency=low
The list of possibilities is currently set t
On 08/15/2002 3:08 PM, Peter S Galbraith at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make
> uploads to?
>
> The list of possibilities is currently set to:
>
> unstable
> frozen
> stable
> frozen unstable
> stable unstable
> stable frozen
> stable f
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make
> uploads to?
Wouldn't that be unstable, woody-proposed-updates, and experimental?
Roland
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>
> I have viewed the font with gfontview. It looks OK
> in a few sizes and not
> so OK in some others. So I'm guessing the hinting
> is not perfect yet
> (either that, or this is a limitation of libttf's
> handling of the hinting
> ... hmm, as an aside, I wonder why gfontview uses
> libttf2 (Fr
Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Python 1.5.2 (#0, Jan 13 2002, 13:19:04) [GCC 2.95.4 20011223 (Debian
> prerelease)] on linux2
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> >>> ''.lower()
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: 's
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:22:41PM -0700, Dustin Mofos wrote:
> Making a perfectly hinted font is very, very diffecult
> (the guy who made Times New Roman has said he spent 2+
> years on the hinting alone). I chose to embed bitmaps
> for all the smaller sizes (no small chore). Is it
> possible tha
On Aug 14, Laura Creighton wrote:
> The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is
what is this? The link is dead. Is this the former PSA?
Guido van Rossum writes:
> > Now, if 2.3 won't be stable until well into next year (as opposed to
> > the schedule in PEP 283), then we may w
> On Aug 14, Laura Creighton wrote:
> > The new Python Business Forum (www.python-in-business.com) is
>
> what is this? The link is dead. Is this the former PSA?
Try www.python-in-business.org. It's a Swedish non-profit created
earlier this year.
> Guido van Rossum writes:
> > > Now, if 2.3 w
I wrote:
> > Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make
> > uploads to?
Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Wouldn't that be unstable, woody-proposed-updates, and experimental?
Possibly. That's why I'm asking. ;-)
I would have assumed stable-proposed-updat
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On Thursday 15 August 2002 19:48, Stephen Depooter wrote:
[snip]
> debconf. It seems to be using the noninteractive frontend.
> dpkg-reconfigure debconf has not helped in getting debconf to actually
> give me the questions so if anyone can tell me w
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:08:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make
> uploads to?
Have a look in bug #150466, on lintian. One of the ftpmasters is quoted
giving a list there.
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Zimmerman writes:
>
>If that is the only issue, then it is a simple matter to prepare fixed
>packages which use string.lower('string') rather than 'string'.lower(),
>which should work with both python 1.5 and python 2.x. Please let me know
>as soon as you are
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I proposed this on debian-devel, but Ben disagreed.
I would be more than happy to create a truetype fonts package to
replace the nonfree xfree86-scalable package and the recently defunct
msttcorefonts. This was my original intent. Ben suggested that I make
a package for each foundry, and then a v
Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:08:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > Hi, What are the currently valid distribution to which we can make
> > uploads to?
>
> Have a look in bug #150466, on lintian. One of the ftpmasters is quoted
> giving a list there.
> As for quality of X Type1 rasterizer, I believe that it is a temporary
> problem. At least one Type1 renderer, gv, has no problems with visual
> quality, so this is not a fundamental flaw, just another challenge.
To get the quality, gv uses antialiasing, doesn't it?
But X core protocol doesn't s
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> Ben suggested that I make
> a package for each foundry, and then a virtual package that includes
> all of them. If Dustin agrees to gpl the rest of his fonts, I'll just
> make a ttf-cheapskate package.
Meta package. A virtual pac
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 10:50:42PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 04:35:01PM -0700, Michael Cardenas wrote:
> > Ben suggested that I make
> > a package for each foundry, and then a virtual package that includes
> > all of them. If Dustin agrees to gpl the rest of his fonts, I
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