[Bug 398761] New: Review Request: gfs-baskerville-fonts - GFS Baskerville Greek font

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           Summary: Review Request: gfs-baskerville-fonts - GFS Baskerville
                    Greek font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: devel
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: fedora-package-review at redhat.com,notting at redhat.com


Spec URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-baskerville-fonts.spec
SRPM URL: http://nim.fedorapeople.org/gfs-baskerville-fonts-20070327-2.fc9.src.rpm

Description:

John Baskerville (1706-1775) got involed in typography late in his career but
his contribution was significant. He was a successful entrepreneur and possesed
an inquiring mind which he applied to produce many aesthetic and technical
innovations in printing. He invented a new ink formula, a new type of smooth
paper and made various improvements in the printing press. He was also involved
in type design which resulted in a latin typeface which was used for the
edition of Virgil, in 1757. The quality of the type was admired throughout of
Europe and America and was revived with great success in the early 20th century.

Baskerville was also involved in the design of a Greek typeface which he used
in an edition of the New Testament for Oxford University, in 1763. He adopted
the practice of avoiding the excessive number of ligatures which Alexander
Wilson had started a few years earlier but his Greek types were rather narrow
in proportion and did not win the sympathy of the philologists and other
scholars of his time. They did influence, however, the Greek types of
Giambattista Bodoni. and through him Didot's Greek in Paris.

The typeface has been digitally revived as GFS Baskerville Classic by Sophia
Kalaitzidou and George D. Matthiopoulos and is now available as part of GFS'
type library.

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