https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805787
Bug ID: 1805787
Summary: Review Request: sil-alkalami-fonts - A font family for
the Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region of
Nigeria and Niger
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01240857-sil-alkalami-fonts/sil-alkalami-fonts.spec
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01240857-sil-alkalami-fonts/sil-alkalami-fonts-1.200-1.fc33.src.rpm
Description:
Alkalami is a font family for Arabic-based writing systems in the Kano region
of Nigeria and in Niger. This style of writing African ajami has sometimes been
called Sudani Kufi or Rubutun Kano.
Alkǎlami (pronounced al-KA-la-mi) is the local word for the Arabic “qalam”, a
type of sharpened stick used for writing on wooden boards in the Kano region of
Nigeria and in Niger, and what gives the style its distinct appearance. The
baseline stroke is very thick and solid. The ascenders and other vertical
strokes including the teeth are very narrow when compared to the baseline. A
generous line height is necessary to allow for deep swashes and descenders, and
the overall look of the page is a very black, solid rectangle. Diacritics are
much smaller in scale, with very little distance from the main letters.
The Alkalami font supports the characters known to be used by languages written
with the Kano style of Arabic script, but may not have the characters needed
for other languages.
Fedora Account System Username: nim
One of SIL’s Non-Roman Script Initiative.
https://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=Home
SIL is a specialist of rare human scripts and contributes its expertise to the
Unicode consortium. The objective is to get 100% of SIL’s font catalog in
Fedora to improve our i18n coverage.
Due to $#@= variations on how SIL publishes its fonts, the spec uses some
SIL-specific macros to hide those variations and limit the changes between the
specs of SIL fonts.
The packaging conforms to https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/935
as approved by FPC on 2020-02-13.
It is one of the test packages that were used to refine the new packaging
guidelines
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/
The new fonts packaging build chain is now live in koji. For example:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1468243
If the review is fast enough the package may make the FC32 100% Code Complete
Deadline (2020-02-25)
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-32/f-32-key-tasks.html
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