2014-01-28 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
Hoi, Just a question, the WMF has invested a lot of effort in producing fonts for many of the languages it supports. These fonts are better than the fonts used in packages like Ubuntu.
Not exactly.
WMF didn't really produce fonts. WMF packaged fonts for the Webfonts and later ULS extensions. Some were created by carving glyphs from existing fonts, such as Autonym and the font for Divehi, but that's about it.
Is there a problem in using the WMF supported font ? It certainly makes
the
inconsistency in Ubuntu moot.
There's no problem in principle, but the packaging process is different. Webfonts are installed as part of a MediaWiki extension and the fonts for the PDF renderer are installed as packages on the server. The packaging mechanism is very different. It's a matter of configuration, a lot of configuration.
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