Re: Vera -> DejaVu fonts?

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:33:18AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 08:15:38PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> > Should we import the DejaVu fonts as default TrueType fonts for
> > xenocara, i.e., as replacement for the Vera fonts?
> > 
> > The DejaVu fonts are an extension of Bitstream Vera and are under
> > the same license.  The DejaVu fonts cover a greater range of
> > characters.  This helps a lot with Firefox for scientific texts,
> > IPA, and Greek.  Our embryonic port of Chromium profits even more,
> > (e.g., Cyrillic works) since Chromium seems less apt at cobbling
> > together glyphs from different (non-TrueType?) fonts.
> > 
> > Are there any downsides to importing DejaVu?
> 
> The only downside I can see is that if we remove vera fonts, some
> people will complain that their fonts are broken again, especially if
> they had explicitely configured applications to use them.
> 
> Applications using generic fontconfig should be fine as fontconfig
> chooses DejaVu as 2nd choice just after Vera for most cases.
> 
> -- 
> Matthieu Herrb

I'd be happy to see DejaVu supersede the Vera fonts. (Another port that
will be happy is education/gamgi )

Perhaps we could have both around for a while to give people one release
transition time?

Cheers,
Jasper

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