[Bug 1805795] New: Review Request: sil-andika-compact-fonts - A font
family for literacy and beginning readers
by bugzilla@redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805795
Bug ID: 1805795
Summary: Review Request: sil-andika-compact-fonts - A font
family for literacy and beginning readers
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org
Reporter: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: package-review(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/f...
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/f...
Description:
Andika is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font family designed especially for
literacy use, taking into account the needs of beginning readers. The focus is
on clear, easy-to-perceive letterforms that will not be readily confused with
one another.
A sans serif font is preferred by some literacy personnel for teaching people
to read. Its forms are simpler and less cluttered than those of most serif
fonts. For years, literacy workers have had to make do with fonts that were
not really suitable for beginning readers and writers. In some cases, literacy
specialists have had to tediously assemble letters from a variety of fonts in
order to get all of the characters they need for their particular language
project, resulting in confusing and unattractive publications. Andika
addresses those issues.
The Andika Compact font family was derived from Andika using SIL TypeTuner,
by setting the “Line spacing” feature to “Tight”, and it cannot be TypeTuned
again. It may exhibit some diacritics clipping on screen (but should print
fine).
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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[Bug 1805880] New: Review Request: sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts - A
Nastaliq-style Arabic script font family
by bugzilla@redhat.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1805880
Bug ID: 1805880
Summary: Review Request: sil-awami-nastaliq-fonts - A
Nastaliq-style Arabic script font family
Product: Fedora
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Component: Package Review
Severity: medium
Priority: medium
Assignee: nobody(a)fedoraproject.org
Reporter: nicolas.mailhot(a)laposte.net
QA Contact: extras-qa(a)fedoraproject.org
CC: package-review(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Target Milestone: ---
Classification: Fedora
Spec URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/f...
SRPM URL:
https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/nim/fonts-rpm-macros/f...
Description:
Awami Nastaliq is a Nastaliq-style Arabic script font family supporting a wide
variety of languages of southwest Asia, including but not limited to Urdu. This
font is aimed at minority language support. This makes it unique among Nastaliq
fonts.
Nastaliq, based on a centuries-old calligraphic tradition, is considered one of
the most beautiful scripts on the planet. Nastaliq has been called “the bride
of calligraphy” but its complexity also makes it one of the most difficult
scripts to render using a computer font. Its right-to-left direction, vertical
nature, and context-specific shaping provide a challenge to any font rendering
engine and make it much more difficult to render than the flat (Naskh) Arabic
script that it is based on. As a result, font developers have long struggled to
produce a font with the correct shaping but at the same time avoid overlapping
of dots and diacritics. In order to account for the seemingly infinite
variations, the Graphite rendering engine has been extended just to handle
these complexities properly.
Fedora Account System Username: nim
One of SIL’s Non-Roman Script Initiative font families
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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