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[PATCH] gnu: Add culmus.

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: 30286-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30286] [PATCH] gnu: Add culmus.
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:44:28 +0200

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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:45:47PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> 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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