[Pkg-fonts-bugs] ITP: ttf-sil-gentium-plus: extended Unicode smart font family for Latin/Greek/Cyrillic

[Nicolas Spalinger]

On 10/11/10 17:52, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Nicolas Spalinger (nicolas_spalinger at sil.org):
> 
>> Yes, thanks for noticing. I realised I had missed that just after
>> sending my ITP. I've now retitled it.
>>
>> I think a plural is more appropriate: fonts-$foundry-$fontfamilyname.
> 
> 
> Hmm, the consensus seemed to be more on singular, as plural would
> sound weird with font packages that only provide one font.

Hi Christian,

You're right, some fonts do only have one weight (one final font file)
for now but may possibly have more in the future. OTOH quite a few of
the font packages we maintain hold more than one weight (more than one
final font file) and these are unlikely to disappear either: they are
released together and belong in the same archive as they are likely to
be used together. Some of our descriptions tend to see them as
collections too.

I'd say a plural fonts-* fits for these richer open font families. But I
guess it's not really extremely important, we can probably live with
that kind of variation, no? What do others in our team think?

AFAICT Fedora has fontfamily-foundry-fonts as the general guideline.
(plural).


Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams
http://planet.open-fonts.org