Re: It's public: Bitstream doesn't envision an update to Vera

["Denis Jacquerye" <moyogo gmail com>]

On 7/12/06, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot laposte net> wrote:
> Le Mer 12 juillet 2006 16:17, Rob a écrit :
> > On Wed July 12 2006 07:56, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> >> > I still use Toga on my own machines because
> >> > I'm vain, but for other people I just tell them to install
> >> > DejaVu and use the condensed variants.
> >>
> >> If you feel like doing fonts again, you have your place
> >> reserved within the project (BTW is Toga metric-compatible
> >> with Condensed DejaVu? Need to know if I can tell fontconfig
> >> to substitute one for the other)
> >
> > I haven't looked, but if you guys used the "recipe" I posted back
> > then (which I think was just using Fontforge to reduce the width
> > to 90%) it should be valid.  But obviously Toga never had all
> > the glyphs Condensed DejaVu does, so any block of text that uses
> > them will render differently in Toga.
>
> I think it's not exactly 90% now but close enough so I'll do the
> substitution rule for Toga

DejaVu Condensed fonts are shrunk 90% in width at the moment. We've
only had some discussion about using 87.5% as defined in the OT specs.
I don't think people would notice the difference anyway so we're
probably going to keep it at 90%. Changing the name to follow the
specs would make more sense if we ever plan to do more width variants.

Cheers,

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye