[pkg-GNUstep-maintainers] meta-gnustep, mknfonts/defoma

[Eric Heintzmann]

Hi Gurkan,

On 2004-05-13 00:10:09 +0200 G=FCrkan Seng=FCn <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu> w=
rote:

> Hi Eric
>=20
>>> Fixed, www.linuks.mine.nu/i_debian/meta-gnustep/
>>> i'll let it upload to experimental if it's fine now.
>> Yes, please upload it.
> done today, should be available in a week or so (in experimental).
> i wrote mails to defoma maintainer and did not recieve any answers
> (about support for GNUstep using mknfonts). can you help me on this?

I don't think that currently mknfont can be used with defoma.
defoma is working font by font and mknfonts is scanning whole directorie=
s for fonts
mknfonts is also copying fonts and I think It would be best to use symli=
nks to avoid duplicate files.
But of course mknfont can be improved to do all we need (by passing opti=
ons for example).
Or we can make property lists by calling gnustep tools in defoma scripts=
.

I'd prefer to improve mknfonts.


But, before starting anything we should read the docs provided with defo=
ma-doc package.
(I've started to read this a few month ago when switching from xlib to a=
rt backend, and I think it's a good starting point for defoma) .

Another thing, we should take care to not add fonts that defoma can hand=
le but not GNUstep.

Eric