Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo

At Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:13:23 +0900,
Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:40 +0200,
> 
> > 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.
> 
> As far as I can see, the problem has been solved with IPA*-003.01-65.1
> packages.
> 
> So, I think issues that remains to be reviewed for the next release are:
> 
> - Are there any adverse effects that caused by setting globaladvance to
>   false for these fonts ?

The question is whether this influences on the real mono-space
behavior.  Are IPAGothic (not PGothic) and Mincho shown with the
right, fixed pitch as before?

> - How should we handle IPAUIGothic font that is not distributed under
>   new license ?

Unless IPA provides it again, we can't include it in the new package.
At most, create another package just for IAPUIGothic from the old
font tarball.  We could provide it on M17N repo, but not necessarily
on FACTORY, IMO.


thanks,

Takashi
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