[Freebangfont-devel] Re: bangla font rpm for MDK

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

Ho,
After reading Pablo's mail - it seems that he will make the RPM himself.
Here's a modified longer description that he wanted

Summary: A collection of Unicode compliant Bengali OpenType GPL'ed
fonts.

Description: This package contains a number of Free Bengali (Bangla)
OpenType fonts from the Mukta (Free) Bangla Fonts Project. All of the
fonts support most of the commonly used Bengali conjuncts (juktakkhars),
and most of them cover the entire Unicode range for Bengali (0980-09FF).
 
Regarding the aliasing, 

Akaash - Serif
Ani - Serif
Mitra - Monospace
likhan - Sans
MuktiBold - Serif
MuktiNarrow - Sans
MuktiNarrowBold - Sans
MuktiRegular - Serif
Sagar - Sans

Regarding the name, fonts-ttf-bengali seems to be OK to me.


-cheers-
Sayamindu


PS: Pablo - it's Bangla and not Bengla ;-)


On বুধ, 2003-04-30 at 14:37, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> Hi Sayamindu,
>         Can you build rpm for MDK ?
> I was talking with mdk people regarding adding bangla fonts in their next
> distro.
> The man is very helpful.
> Taneem bhai was trying too.. but I think he is out of Net ...
> 
> anyway, I am pasting the message that the MDK guy said.
> check, what you can do.
> 
> btw, we already sent him the rpm and srpm for RH.
> 
> Thanks,
> `Jamil
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Kaixo!
> 
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 07:49:28PM +0600, Jamil Ahmed wrote:
> 
> > | Attached is the SRPM of the freebanglafont package for RedHat8.x and up.
> 
> Sorry for the dealy.
> 
> ... I'm not able to unpack the archive...
> note that only the *.spec file is enough.
> 
> As for installing the fonts, it is easy to do manually; you
> can either use drakfont, or make a directory, copy the fonts, and tell xft
> about it, eg:
> 
> mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf/bengla/
> cp *.ttf /usr/share/fonts/ttf/bengla/
> fc-cache
> 
> (the directory must be somewhere under /usr/share/fonts in order for
> fc-cache to automatically find it)
> 
> > From
> > | what Jamil told me, XFree86-font-util package is RH specific and I don't
> > know
> > | what should be used for Mandrake.
> 
> There is nothing mandrake specific.
> THere are only two things important:
> 
> - the version of Xft (Xft1 and Xft2 work differently in the way that font
>   directories are defined)
> - the fonts must be somewhere that Xft knows about it.
> 
> For Xft2 it automatically scans all directories recursively from the
> directories defined in /ertc/fonts/fonts.conf, with the command fc-cache;
> so it is only needed to put the fonts somewhere under one of the
> declared directories (which are /usr/sharte/fonts, /opt/ttfonts and
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts in mdk) and launch fc-cache
> 
> For Xft1 it is needed to add each new directory on the config file
> (it was /etc/X11/XftConfig I think) and launch xftcache
> 
> 
> I'll make the package named fonts-ttf-bengali (that follows the naming
> of the other font packages) and the fonts put into
> /usr/share/fonts/ttf/bengali (if you think "bengla" is better, or another,
> tell me); and it will launc fc-cache after install as all other
> fonts-ttf-* and fonts-type1-* packages.
> 
> I'll also add some lines to /etc/fonts/fonts.conf to define the font
> names to use by default for "sans-serif", "serif" and "monospace"
> pseudo-fonts;
> but I need your help here: which would be the best choices for each
> of those three font styles ?
> 
> > Once you have created the srpm/rpm for
> > | [current/future] Mandrake, can you please send me a copy so that we can
> > put it
> > | up on our web site?
> 
> I will wait for confirmation that the name "fonts-ttf-bengali" is ok.
> 
> Oh, btw, it would be nice if you could provide me the one line and
> the longer descriptions for the rpm package in Bengali.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Ki ça vos våye bén,
> Pablo Saratxaga
> 

> 
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Sayamindu Dasgupta <address@hidden>
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