[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#537564: Bug#537564: Bug#537564: libfontforge1: long description no sentence

[Kęstutis Biliūnas]

Hi Daniel and Christian,

Thank you for your replies.

Christian Perrier rašė:
> Quoting Daniel Kahn Gillmor (dkg at fifthhorseman.net):
> 
>>  FontForge is a font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts.
>>  It is also a font format converter, and can convert among PostScript
>>  (ASCII & binary Type 1, some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and
>>  OpenType (Type2), CID-keyed, SVG, CFF and multiple-master fonts.
>>  .
>>  This package contains the runtime library.

Daniel, I always thought that the predicate "is" may be replaced by
a dash. Since it is not so, it is easy to fix.

> The first sentence could then become the package synopsis.
> 
> That would give:
> 
> Description:  font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts - runtime library
>  Besides being a font editor, FontForge is also also a font format
>  converter, and can convert among PostScript (ASCII & binary Type 1,
>  some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and OpenType (Type2),
>  CID-keyed, SVG, CFF and multiple-master fonts.
>  .
>  This package contains the runtime library.
> 
> As you see, the synopsis, then becomes "$SUITE - $ELEMENT" with $SUITE
> being common to all binary packages and $ELEMENT being specific to
> each package.
> 
> Similarly, the first paragraph is a boilerplate that's used in all
> binary packages, and the last paragraph gives information specific to
> each binary package.
> 
> This is the preferred system that's often proposed in reviews by
> debian-l10n-english when we work on packages' descriptions.

Christian, your explanation and the offer is very useful, but the short
description should be less than 80 characters. And how, even if reduced
the synopsis to a very short form:

Description: font editor - runtime library
 Besides being a font editor, FontForge is also a font format
 converter, and can convert among PostScript (ASCII & binary Type 1,
 some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and OpenType (Type2),
 CID-keyed, SVG, CFF and multiple-master fonts.
 .
 This package contains the runtime library.

After all, below, the long description is explained about all font
formats.

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