Hello,
after an IRC discussion with Arne Goetje (Ubuntu i18n and l10n engineer), we have worked out a proposal for new tags for font information. New proposed facets: Facet: iso15924 Description: Writing script (discussed in the other mail about replacing culture::*) Facet: font Description: Font Tag: font::style:serif Description: Serif style Tag: font::style:sans-serif Description: Sans-serif style Tag: font::style:monospace Description: Monospace style Tag: font::style:modulated Description: Modulated style Tag: font::style:unmodulated Description: Unmodulated style Tag: font::style:screen Description: Screen style These fonts have been designed to be used primarily on screens Tag: font::style:printing Description: Printing style Tag: font::style:calligraphy Description: Calligraphy style Tag: font::style:decorative Description: Decorative style Tag: font::style:symbol Description: Symbol style Tag: font::style:impaired Description: Visual impaired style Special style to help visual impaired users Tag: font::type:truetype Description: TrueType Tag: font::type:postscript Description: PostScript Tag: font::type:bitmap Description: Bitmap Tag: font::embedded-bitmaps Description: Contains embedded bitmaps Tag: font::hints Description: Hinted The font contains hints or instructions font::type:* sounds like something that could go into made-of, but made-of does not seem to currently be of the right granularity, so I thought of putting those tags here for now. To have a software that generate a list of suitable fonts for a user would also require something more specific than tags. An example that Arne made was of a font which contains latin and cyrilic characters, but misses the special latin characters for Serbian. Such a font would need to declare support for something like (iso639::sr && iso15924::Latn && iso15924::Cyrl && ! rfc4647::sr-Latn-SR), and tags cannot be used to express that. This calls for a new debian/control field for fonts, to be copied into the Packages file. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
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