You know you want to package Beteckna Fonts for Fedora, right? You know you want to be or want to enable the next Barbara Kruger but in a totally free software / free-license way, right?
Do the right thing. Package Beteckna today!
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Cat photo from “Amakum-olan Mills” by rogerimp on Flickr under a Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution license.
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p.s. Thanks to Gürkan Sengün for letting the Fedora Fonts SIG know about this cool font!
Máirín Duffy 
What do I need to do?
Actually I was looking for a Futura based font for a D&D module.. since the original D&D items used a New Gothic or Futura depending on who you talked to.
Posted by Anonymous | October 31, 2008, 9:57 pmRe: What do I need to do?
http://smooge.fedorapeople.org/EL-5/beteckna-fonts-0.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm
http://smooge.fedorapeople.org/EL-5/SRPMS/beteckna-fonts-0.3-1.el5.src.rpm
Don’t know what to do next with it.. or how to really test them. Do we use OTF fonts?
Posted by Anonymous | October 31, 2008, 11:10 pmRe: What do I need to do?
Let me ask on fedora-font-list because I’m not 100% sure myself – or you can ask nimnim on freenode (##fonts) if I don’t get back to you quickly enough
Posted by mairin | November 1, 2008, 12:11 amRe: What do I need to do?
OTF fonts work in any application that uses fontconfig. Sadly, OpenOffice.org does not.
Posted by ivazquez | November 1, 2008, 8:09 amRe: What do I need to do?
Hmm. When I installed this RPM, I ended up with uppercase fonts for both lowercase and uppercase, even though the sample shown at:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Beteckna_fonts
suggests that there are separate lowercase fonts.
Is this intentional?
Posted by navalfuzzies | November 2, 2008, 5:29 amRe: What do I need to do?
there are separate lowercase fonts…
Posted by mairin | November 2, 2008, 5:33 amRe: What do I need to do?
Yes. I mean to ask smoogespace whether he intended to only package the uppercase fonts for both lower and upper.
Would the reason to package the font with all uppercase characters be because the desirability of seeing all text in the pretty uppercase characters, regardless of whether the author intended some to be lowercase? Or is it the packaging intended more for artists and not intended for functional daily use?
Posted by navalfuzzies | November 2, 2008, 6:14 amRe: What do I need to do?
I doubt it was intentional.
Posted by mairin | November 2, 2008, 8:38 ampackage cat. hehehehehe.
Posted by Anonymous | October 31, 2008, 11:03 pmDroid fonts
There’s another high-quality font with extensive Unicode coverage that just became available under the Apache license: the Android font “Droid”…
http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/pr2007_11_12.html
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender
It would be great to have this packaged for Fedora too!
Posted by Anonymous | November 1, 2008, 6:04 amRe: Droid fonts
Hey thanks for the tip! 🙂 I’m glad to hear it has been put under an open license. Garrett had mentioned it to me some weeks ago but at the time the license was still up in the air. I’ll file the wishlist request and campaign for it next 🙂 🙂
Posted by mairin | November 2, 2008, 1:16 amRe: Droid fonts
Sadly there are still various problems with the licensing.
Haven’t found the time to contact the Android folks about this yet. If you ping them can you make the case for a more community-friendly approach? Thanks. They may wall be convinced by the package cat :- )
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Posted by Anonymous | November 2, 2008, 5:01 pmGreat font, thanks for the tip!
Now I can throw Futura out of my font collection.
Posted by Anonymous | November 1, 2008, 4:52 pmI strongly, STRONGLY encourage the use of package cat in many more future requests.
It would be nice to have something familiar that I can look at when I contemplate whether I have the time or skills to do such packaging before deciding I do not. Enough times, and the irresistable kittany of it all might make me LEARN those skills and MAKE that time.
Yay cats!
Posted by navalfuzzies | November 2, 2008, 5:22 amNow for the next font request you have to do a “i can has font”…
I am frustrated with my cat, he’s perfect for lolcats (100% black)), I have some neat ideas[*], but he’s totally uncooperative for photo shooting (i don’t blame him, he had some bad experiences when he was a kitten).
[*] something like “the basement cat does not want you to try the latest fedora”
Posted by nicubunulj | November 3, 2008, 7:37 am