Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo

At Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:40 +0200,
I wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> good to hear back from you!
> 
> At Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:20:11 +0200,
> Mike FABIAN wrote:
> > 
> > Takashi Iwai <[email protected]> :
> > 
> > > The best solution is, of course, to fix Qt3.  But I guess no one has a
> > > guts to challenge it...
> > 
> > I don't think Qt3 will be ever fixed to support .otf.
> > 
> > I made bug reports about the lack of .otf support in Qt3 years ago.
> > 
> > Qt4 supports it now but I doubt that this will be backported to Qt3.
> 
> That's my expectation, too.
> 
> If the conversion in the package is a problem, at most, we can provide
> a conversion script in the package so that the user can do it manually
> if needed.  But I'd like to avoid this either, obviously.
> 
> Do you still remember what was exactly the problem in Qt3?
> I have only a vague memory that we talked about this before a lunch :)
> Is it about qt3 taking the bi-width or zero-width or...?

I pursued this problem a bit more.  A bad news is that it's actually
no Qt3-issue but rather about fontconfig / freetype.
A good news is that there is already a workaround for such a problem.
Simply setting globaladvance to false for these fonts should suffice.

I changed the spec file again to package OTF files and added a config
file to override that attribute.  The packages were checked into
M17N:Devel again now.

Please let me know if you see the similar problems again even with the
new packages.


thanks,

Takashi
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