[Fontconfig] URW++ Core Font Set (Level 2) -- fontconfig files in upstream?

Akira TAGOH akira at tagoh.org
Wed Aug 9 01:48:52 UTC 2017


Well, I personally perfer to let font upstream maintain the config
files for their fonts and leave the priority of fonts to users so they
can adjust their preference without modifying contents in a file.

On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 10:53 AM, David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
<dkaspar at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I had created a fontconfig files for fonts from URW++, which are being used
> as Core Font Set (Level 2) for ghostscript, and I have submitted these files
> to upstream, asking them if they could include those files in their
> repository (and subsequent releases):
> https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698333
>
> After it I tried to update the fontconfig files, and found out you have
> already done that. (Stupid of me being working with outdated files... :-/)
> So, now I would like to know if you would prefer that Artifex (ghostscript
> provider, and de-facto upstream for URW++ fonts releases) would keep the
> fontconfig files as part of the URW fonts releases, or do you prefer to keep
> the config files as part of fontconfig?
>
> I don't want to create any mess or duplication of work for anybody, that's
> why I'm asking.
>
> Best regards,
>
> David Kaspar [Dee'Kej]
> Associate Software Engineer
> Brno, Czech Republic
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Akira TAGOH


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