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[PATCH] gnu: Add culmus.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
Cc: 30286 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30286] [PATCH] gnu: Add culmus.
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:45:47 -0500

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 09:07:38AM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 04:49:20PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 08:58:42PM +0200, Efraim Flashner wrote:
> > > * gnu/packages/fonts.scm (culmus): New variable.
> > 
> > Cool! Is this our first Hebrew font?
> > 
> > > +    (build-system gnu-build-system)
> > 
> > Just wondering, did you try the font-build-system? No big deal either
> > way.
> 
> I checked guix/build/font-build-system, it seemed to untar the tarball
> and extract only the font files. Culmus offers two tarballs, one
> "regular" one with just fonts in it (ttf,otf,afm,pfa), and the other one
> with just spd files in it to be processed with fontforge. I suppose I
> could have started with the font-build-system and modified it, but I
> using the font-linuxlibertine package as a model, and it uses the gnu
> build system as a base.

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for this package :)

> I should probably rewrite the description to remove the reference to the
> Type1 fonts, they're included by default in the precompiled font tarball
> but not built with the one I wrote.

Sounds good!

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