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FarsiWeb Persian fonts
Packager
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package summary.
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package summary.
Description
FarsiWeb has released the first standard set of Unicode Persian fonts ever published, including Elham, Terafik, Terafik Bold, Titr, Roya, Roya Bold, Koodak, Nazli, Nazli Bold, and Homa. Their main advantage over legacy fonts is compliance with the Unicode, ISIRI 6219, and OpenType standards, and the addition of required but missing glyphs for Persian information processing. The fonts are highly recommended if you care for proper Persian display on your computers.
Packager
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package description.
Correct the proposal and replace it with the final package description.
Characteristics
| Homepage | Format & features | License | Review reference | Koji page | pkgdb page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FarsiWeb | TTF with OpenType tables | GPLv2 (Some of them) | ④ | ⑤ | ⑥ |
Packager
- Once a package has entered the review stage, add a Review reference ④ such as 181994. You can reference this wiki page in your review request as additional information. Please do not forget to CC fedora-fonts-bugs-list@redhat.com on your bugzilla ticket.
- Once a package has been approved, add the corresponding:
- Koji page ⑤ pointer (for example dejavu-fonts).
- pkgdb page ⑥ pointer (for example dejavu-fonts).
| Style | Faces | Scripts | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sans | Serif | Other | R | B | I | BI | Other | Latin | Greek | Cyrillic | Other | ||
| Variable | Monospace | Variable | Monospace | ||||||||||
| ① | ② | ③ | |||||||||||
This really needs to be filled in by an Arabic or Farsi speaker
- Add as many lines as necessary in the preceding table. Be careful not to mix faces with different characteristics on the same line (for example if a font bundle includes a serif font with a regular and bold face, and a sans-serif font with regular, bold, italic and bold-italic faces, use two different lines).
- Use ✘s to indicate a common feature is present.
- Other features can be filled this way:
- other styles ①: fantasy, cursive, etc,
- other faces ②: condensed, extralight, etc,
- other scripts ③: list the corresponding IS0 15924 codes. Tools like gucharmap or fileformat's online test can be used to check coverage if upstream's information is not clear enough.
Caveats
- These fonts moved to Rejected and retired fonts category because of unclear legal status of the original fonts
- Upstream says 'some' but not all of those files are GPLed so you need to trawl through the font files with fontconfig to identify the fonts Fedora can ship
- Once you've done it you need to split the package in one package or subpackage per font family (for example on package for terafik, keeping bold and regular together)
- Upstream makes no notice of its stance with regards to GPLv3. You need to contact it to know if the fonts are GPLv2 only or GPLv2+
- Neither the News not the Copying file reference the FSF fonts exception. You need to contact upstream to get it added
- The GPL requires us to ship sources. You need to contact upstream to check if the preferred font editing format is something else than TTF (for example SFD), and get it published so it can be added to the src.rpm
- If this source format is SFD you need to build fonts from sources using fontforge
- Don't forget to add the appropriate fontconfig rules
Packager
Take care of those items and remove them from the page once they've been dealt with.
Take care of those items and remove them from the page once they've been dealt with.
Additional information
Packaging those fonts was requested by our own very nice but also very busy Behdad Esfahbod, threatening to bribe the would-be packager, so you can certainly try to collect the reward with him.
Fonts in Fedora
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The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.
Packager
You MUST replace the Category:Font wishlist tag with:
You MUST replace the Category:Font wishlist tag with:
- Category:In-progress fonts for a font being worked on, but not available in Fedora yet. Typically in packaging review stage.
- Category:Packaged fonts for a packaged font, available in Fedora.
- Category:Rejected and retired fonts for a font we decided not to package after review, or removed from current Fedora repositories for some other reason.