From d7ed369d1b34dc1b665b420db14b676a2d91b3e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Jackson Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 12:19:24 +0100 Subject: Move commentary about reasons for bdfnorm from changelog to comment --- bdfnorm | 7 +++++++ debian/changelog | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/bdfnorm b/bdfnorm index 0b02834..bbca464 100755 --- a/bdfnorm +++ b/bdfnorm @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ #!/usr/bin/perl -w +# BDF can represent glyphs as smaller bitmap rectangles with padding. +# But our approach to font editing works best if the glyphs are the +# full character cell. Although most fonts do not use this feature +# (at least, as seen in pdf2bdf output), some do, and also output from +# fontforge does. So this script pads each glyph to the font bounding +# box. + use strict; use POSIX; diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 62d3f87..18561d5 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ xfonts-traditional (1.7.2~~iwj) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * An internal error message in printrule is improved slightly. * Add debhelper-build-stamp to .gitignore. * Permit new foundry names to contain "."s. - * Add bdf normaliser (to cope with fontforge output directly, since - bdftopcf | pcf2bdf sometimes fails). + * Add bdf normaliser. -- Ian Jackson Mon, 25 Apr 2016 02:23:06 +0100 -- cgit v1.2.3