[Pkg-fonts-devel] GNU FreeFont 20120503 released

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu May 10 20:56:21 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:21:43PM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Fabian Greffrath (fabian at greffrath.com):
> > - Isn't this the right time to drop the OTF flavour? There are only two
> > packages depending on it.
> 
> 
> Well, this is one of the very few packages where TTF and OTF versions
> of fonts are separated. I'd love to hear arguments for or against that
> design choice. I have no string feeling about this, myself.

In this case OTF is the "native" format, TTF is "converted" by FontForge
at build time, so if one is to be removed then it should be TTF not the
other way around.

Regards,
 Khaled
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