[Xorg] Re: [Fontconfig] adding/distributing new fonts

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sat Aug 7 08:26:29 PDT 2004


On Gwe, 2004-08-06 at 16:44, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> If everyone could just contribute glyphs to a single font family (the
> Vera fonts Bitstream liberated for gnome seems a good base) instead of
> multiplying fonts with partial coverage this would be better for all of
> us.

Dafydd Harries has been attempting to get exactly this happening with
the Olwen font (Vera + extras). The name change to keep correctly wrt
the licensing rules on the name. Currently there are contributions for
Welsh and I think something like Serbian (I forget which)

Alan




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