On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 11:35 AM Dave Crossland <dave(a)lab6.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:51 PM pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com <pravin.d.s(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 02:39, Dave Crossland <dave(a)lab6.com> wrote:
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>> I'm the Noto product owner at Google Fonts, I expect the wider range of
>> styles available by itself would make Noto fonts a better choice :) I would
>> be happy to hear any aspects of Lohit that are superior
>>
>
> Lohit follows an open source development methodology. One can provide a
> patch to the sfd file. We are building from source in Fedora.
> AFAIK Noto is only available in binary format. (TTF).
>
> But given its already used for many languages, we can definitely go ahead
> for India fonts as well.
> What i suggest:
> 1. Lets Noto get installed by default.
> 2. Lets have Lohit fontconfig priority more than Noto, so if someone
> installing it manually, it will become default for particular Indian
> languages.
>
I love it!
>
Thank you everyone for the feedback so far.
Since the feedback so far seems generally positive, I started drafting
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Indic_Noto_fonts proposal for Fedora
39.
Have given the relative fonts priorities some thought... while in theory I
am sympathetic to the novel priority suggestion, it is probably not
realistic in practice: we have never done default fonts changes that way
before in Fedora so I think it would set a bad precedent, but I think we
should make sure that if one uninstalls the Noto Indic fonts, the Lohit
fonts should still remain the default - I do think that should be possible.
Thanks, Jens