[Pkg-fonts-devel] RFC: how to name alternative font package?

Dave Crossland dave at lab6.com
Sun Jul 1 16:58:42 UTC 2007


On 01/07/07, Arne Goetje <arne at linux.org.tw> wrote:
> Dave Crossland wrote:
> > On 29/06/07, Denis Jacquerye <moyogo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 6/29/07, Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen at debian.org> wrote:
> >>> 29 червня 2007 о 16:46 +0800 "Arne Götje (高盛華)" написав(-ла):
> >>>> ttc-$foundry-$font ?
> >>> looks good for me.
> >> I don't think it's necessary to use the prefix ttc- since TTC is just
> >> collection of TTF files, the prefix ttf- is also adequate.
> >
> > I agree - when users search APT for fonts, they will not know to
> > search for ttc-* packages, but ttf-* is more obvious.
>
> Well, the point is, that the ttf-arphic-{ukai|uming} packages exist
> already and will contain the old style ttf fonts.

Perhaps ttfc-$foundry-$font as that will still be found in searches for TTF?

-- 
Regards,
Dave


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