[Pkg-fonts-devel] Q: web-font directory -> /usr/share/fonts/web-fonts ?
Jonas Smedegaard
dr at jones.dk
Fri Aug 21 19:34:36 UTC 2015
Quoting Hideki Yamane (2015-08-21 20:51:06)
> On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 17:55:48 +0200 Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
> wrote:
>> The subdir names we currently use all reflect the actual format, so I
>> prefer that we do same for SVG-based fonts. Therefore I propose this
>> path:
>>
>> /usr/share/fonts/svg/
>
> It's reasonable but it contains other format like eof, woff and web
> fonts are used with css files that specifies those eof, woff and svg
> files as stays same directory.
>
>> @font-face {
>> font-family: 'octicons';
>> src: url('octicons.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
>> url('octicons.woff') format('woff'),
>> url('octicons.ttf') format('truetype'),
>> url('octicons.svg#octicons') format('svg');
>> font-weight: normal;
>> font-style: normal;
>> }
>
> If it would be separated to each format, it's bit hassle for users to
> collect those web fonts to one directory like /var/www/some-site/.
>
> It's handy to put all files to one /usr/share/fonts/web-fonts, IMO.
Above includes *.ttf but I suspect you do not suggest _replacing_ our
current /truetype subdir with /web-fonts.
I don't think we can sensibly serve the needs of websites - they will
need to use symlinks.
- Jonas
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