#699433 ttf-aenigma: clarify what upstream uses as the source

Package:
fonts-aenigma
Source:
fonts-aenigma
Submitter:
Pietro Battiston
Date:
2021-11-23 06:33:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
Tags:
#699433#5
Date:
2013-01-31 12:27:23 UTC
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This package provides fonts as .ttf files only (and description .txt files).
Compare to for instance package fonts-tlwg which provides FontForge .sfd files.
You should ask the author for source files used to generate those fonts, and
include them.

By the way: I added latin accented letters to font BobcaygeonBRK.ttf. I'm sure
a professional would do something much better, but still it would be nice for
us "latins" if you could include them (better than nothing!):
http://pietrobattiston.it/t/Bobcaygeon

Finally: the homepage http://www.aenigmafonts.com/ is (currently?) down.

(by the way, thanks for the package, those fonts are great)

#699433#10
Date:
2013-08-08 13:45:48 UTC
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tags 699433 confirmed upstream
forwarded 699433 Brian Kent <aefonts@frontiernet.net>
thanks

I have passed this message up to upstream. Let's see what happens.

#699433#19
Date:
2015-11-06 02:29:43 UTC
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Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: retitle -1 ttf-aenigma: clarify what upstream uses as the source

To be clear, it is perfectly acceptable for upstream to use the .ttf
files as their source format, modifying them directly with FontForge or
their favourite font editor if they so choose. That they are binary
based files instead of text based files does not prevent them from
being the source for these fonts.

http://www.inventati.org/frx/essays/softfrdm/whatissource.html

Of course, if they chose a text based format then you could provide
patches for them, which would be an advantage of text based formats.