(fonts) wikipedia challenge

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Nov 28 07:49:57 UTC 2006


Le lundi 27 novembre 2006 à 19:18 -0500, Rik van Riel a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 27 novembre 2006 à 16:58 -0500, Rik van Riel a écrit :
> >> It looks like with all the fonts from FC6 and Fedora Extras, I
> >> can display almost every font from http://wikipedia.org/
> >>
> >> Almost!  There still appear to be 4 fonts missing from Fedora
> >> that are used on the wikipedia front page.  We also lack some
> >> glyphs in for example the Canadian Aboriginal Syllable, as
> >> used by the Inuit and the Cree (and others?).
> > 
> > I think some of those were added to dejavu lately (the 2.12 packages in
> > FE devel). At least there was some noise about canadian strange stuff on
> > the irc channel, don't remember if it was merged or complete yet.
> 
> Ohhhhhh.  http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/ looks good indeed.
> 
> I simply did a yum search for "fonts" and installed every
> package whose name began with fonts- ... now I have a lot
> more.

Don't forget the large pool of packages that use the -fonts suffix
convention (for historical reasons, consistency with other
distributions/repositories, because of subpackaging, or just to follow
natural langage order)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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