Description of problem: discussion on bug #578039 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-3.fc13.noarch How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: not detecting lohit as default font Expected results: should detect lohit as default font Additional info:
from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=578039#c6 I tested in Fedora 13 for the impact of the following change in 66-lohit-tamil.conf introduced on April 19, 2010 by Pravin : - <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first" binding="same"> + <edit name="family" mode="prepend"> (Patch ref: http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/yFlHamCSaVYjcOo7xFxD ) With mode="prepend" as it is in current versions, I find the following : 1) The current 66-lohit-tamil.conf does not supersede 65-nonlatin.conf for "sans-serif". 65-nonlatin.conf has TSCu_Paranar font at priority above Lohit Tamil; and so if TSCu_Paranar Regular and / or TSCu_Paranar Bold are fonts are installed then for sans-serif TSCu_Paranar regular is matched by fontconfig if Regular only or both Regular and Bold are installed. If only Bold is installed then it is matched to sans-serif. Only if both regular and bold of TSCu_Paranar are NOT installed then Lohit Tamil gets matched to sans-serif. 2) Similarly if gnu-free fonts are installed then due to 60-gnu-free-serif.conf, for serif, it is FreeSerif font that is matched by fontconfig. Note: To check what fontconfig matches to the 3 genric fonts : mono, serif and sans-serif as well as best font for any font being not categorised as one those three, the 4 commands I use are as follows: fc-match :lang=ta:family=mono fc-match :lang=ta:family=serif fc-match :lang=ta:family=sans fc-match :lang=ta For Tamil fonts the 3rd and 4th of the above would always yield identical results. Next, if the 66-lohit-tamil.conf is with mode="prepend_first" binding="same" or mode="prepend_first" (without the binding="same"), then in each of these cases I find for all the 4 above commands, "Lohit Tamil" is the result even if TSCu_Paranar and FreeSerif fonts are installed. Now the issues I have: What was the intended purpose of 66-lohit-tamil.conf ? If it is meant to supersede all configs above in the file links (in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory) with names starting with number 65 or less to match all 3 generic fonts with Lohit Tamil, then mode="prepend" fails but mode="prepend_first" works right (even without binding="same"). If it is meant to supersede all configs above, only for the case of sans-serif to match with with Lohit Tamil, then "mode=prepend" fails and "mode=prepend_first" works right for sans-serif but it also does unintended matches for mono and serif. As I understand now, the current 66-lohit-tamil.conf does not serve any purpose. Seek your clarifications please. K. Sethu
(In reply to comment #6) > > 1) The current 66-lohit-tamil.conf does not supersede 65-nonlatin.conf for > "sans-serif". 65-nonlatin.conf has TSCu_Paranar font at priority above Lohit > Tamil; and so if TSCu_Paranar Regular and / or TSCu_Paranar Bold are fonts are > installed then for sans-serif TSCu_Paranar regular is matched by fontconfig if > Regular only or both Regular and Bold are installed. If only Bold is installed > then it is matched to sans-serif. Only if both regular and bold of > TSCu_Paranar are NOT installed then Lohit Tamil gets matched to sans-serif. Yes, i will fix this by making lohit tamil priority 65-0 > > 2) Similarly if gnu-free fonts are installed then due to > 60-gnu-free-serif.conf, for serif, it is FreeSerif font that is matched by > fontconfig. This is really bug from gnu-free fonts, they should not use this priority see "/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-priorities.txt" "65-69 Fonts with less common encodings, ending with fonts that provide, coverage of exotic unicode blocks at the expense of drawing,quality" should report bug against them but one more thing gnu-free providing serif fonts, and lohit is sans so it is ok if gnu-free get selected for fc-match serif:lang=ta
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #6) > > > > 1) The current 66-lohit-tamil.conf does not supersede 65-nonlatin.conf for > > "sans-serif". 65-nonlatin.conf has TSCu_Paranar font at priority above Lohit > > Tamil; and so if TSCu_Paranar Regular and / or TSCu_Paranar Bold are fonts are > > installed then for sans-serif TSCu_Paranar regular is matched by fontconfig if > > Regular only or both Regular and Bold are installed. If only Bold is installed > > then it is matched to sans-serif. Only if both regular and bold of > > TSCu_Paranar are NOT installed then Lohit Tamil gets matched to sans-serif. > > Yes, i will fix this by making lohit tamil priority 65-0 > To supersede with language specific matching from above (i.e. in /etc/font/conf.d/ with a config file link name starting with less than 65-n to supersede 65-nonlatin.conf) there is another method not using mode="prepend" . That method is not included in the Fedora tips at : http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Locale-specific_overrides For the other method we make 65-lohit-tamil.conf as follows : ----------------------------------------------------- <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <!-- Tamil (ta) --> <match target="font"> <test name="lang" compare="contains"> <string>ta</string> </test> <alias> <family>sans-serif</family> <prefer> <family>Lohit Tamil</family> </prefer> </alias> </match> <!-- Tamil (ta) ends --> </fontconfig> --------------------------------------------------------- Then since 65-lohit-tamil.conf is less than 65-nonlatin.conf the above should supersede 65-nonlatin.conf . Though I have not tested yet with 65 (which I will do later tonight) using 63, I have found that the above matches sans-serif with Lohit Tamil for Tamil language contents but not for any other languages, and regardless of the locale in which desktop is operated. > > > > 2) Similarly if gnu-free fonts are installed then due to > > 60-gnu-free-serif.conf, for serif, it is FreeSerif font that is matched by > > fontconfig. > > This is really bug from gnu-free fonts, they should not use this priority > see "/usr/share/fontconfig/templates/fontconfig-priorities.txt" > > "65-69 Fonts with less common encodings, ending with fonts that provide, > coverage of exotic unicode blocks at the expense of drawing,quality" > > should report bug against them > But in Ubuntus installing the deb package for the same Free Fonts does not pump in the 60-gnu-free-serif.conf, 60-gnu-free-sans.conf and 60-gnu-free-mono.conf . Aren't those inclusions in Fedora made by Fedora's packagers for gnu-free ? > but one more thing > gnu-free providing serif fonts, and lohit is sans > so it is ok if gnu-free get selected for > fc-match serif:lang=ta There are some contents in web sites, such as some buttons in ta.wikipedia.org are detected as serif and when FreeSerif is matched to serif those content, if in bold, do not get rendered since the bold version of Free Serif does not have Tamil glyphs. Also FreeSerif regular font's coverage of Tamil glyphs is not comprehensive with many symbols and some late additions to Unicode missing. I will attach some screen shots later tonight to show those problems. K. Sethu
(In reply to comment #1) > 1) The current 66-lohit-tamil.conf does not supersede 65-nonlatin.conf for > "sans-serif". 65-nonlatin.conf has TSCu_Paranar font at priority above Lohit > Tamil; and so if TSCu_Paranar Regular and / or TSCu_Paranar Bold are fonts are > installed then for sans-serif TSCu_Paranar regular is matched by fontconfig if > Regular only or both Regular and Bold are installed. If only Bold is installed > then it is matched to sans-serif. Only if both regular and bold of > TSCu_Paranar are NOT installed then Lohit Tamil gets matched to sans-serif. That's because there were no Tamil fonts packages competed in Fedora. since 65-nonlatin.conf is provided as is from upstream, they just thinks TSCu_Paranar may be better than Lohit. you can file a bug to upstream if in doubt. but it's not our bug since the fonts packages has own rule to set up. when TSCu_paranar is available in Fedora, we can revisit this issue later. otherwise I don't see any urgent to fix that because we could assume that users may wants to use it by default since they installed that by themselves. > 2) Similarly if gnu-free fonts are installed then due to > 60-gnu-free-serif.conf, for serif, it is FreeSerif font that is matched by > fontconfig. That's a bit rare case and current policy doesn't deal with it properly. that should be discussed in the list but not here. and it's also not something can be fixed in this package only. > Next, if the 66-lohit-tamil.conf is with mode="prepend_first" binding="same" > or mode="prepend_first" (without the binding="same"), then in each of these > cases I find for all the 4 above commands, "Lohit Tamil" is the result even if > TSCu_Paranar and FreeSerif fonts are installed. Using prepend_first isn't recommended in even upstream. good to think of what if all of fonts packages uses it. > Now the issues I have: > > What was the intended purpose of 66-lohit-tamil.conf ? See comment#0 and the link there in Bug#578039
(In reply to comment #3) > To supersede with language specific matching from above (i.e. in > /etc/font/conf.d/ with a config file link name starting with less than 65-n to > supersede 65-nonlatin.conf) there is another method not using mode="prepend" . > That method is not included in the Fedora tips at : > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Locale-specific_overrides > > For the other method we make 65-lohit-tamil.conf as follows : There are no difference in the behaviour with "prepend". <prefer> is actually same to that. > There are some contents in web sites, such as some buttons in ta.wikipedia.org > are detected as serif and when FreeSerif is matched to serif those content, if > in bold, do not get rendered since the bold version of Free Serif does not have > Tamil glyphs. Also FreeSerif regular font's coverage of Tamil glyphs is not > comprehensive with many symbols and some late additions to Unicode missing. I > will attach some screen shots later tonight to show those problems. That would be good to file a bug against gnu-free-fonts.
first thing is solved since we don't have a TSCu_Paranar fonts in fedora, so it will work nice, if someone still want use install and use that font then yes it will create problem due to 65-non-latin i think it will be good to use 65-0 for lohit, since we don't have a control on 65-non-latin, so making 65-0 will make sure that at least in fedora 65-non-latin will not create changes for default fonts configuration this is not bug presently but for enhancement, i will do 65-0 in next build, even we are using 65-0 for smc-fonts reported bug for gnu-free https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=621498
i was just wondering why TSCu_Paranar is not in fedora there is mess with its license, at one place it is given that it is released "Released Under the GNU GPL, Dec. 2002." and at other place it is written "Not for commercial use"
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-4.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-4.fc13
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-4.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-4.fc14
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-4.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update lohit-tamil-fonts'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-4.fc14
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-5.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-5.fc13
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-5.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-5.fc14
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-6.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-6.fc13
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-6.fc14 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 14. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-6.fc14
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-6.fc14 has been pushed to the Fedora 14 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
lohit-tamil-fonts-2.4.5-6.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.