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I have made a ebuild for installing "Unicode compliant Open Type Bengali fonts" in gentoo Linux System. Bangla is my native language. Bangla is the one of the Language spoken in India and Bangladesh. Historically Bangla is originated from a language called "Prakrit" which had its root in Sanskrit. Following project is developing Unicode compliant Open Type Bengla fonts http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/index.html It is a subproject of http://www.bengalinux.org/ http://www.bengalinux.org/ Possibly it is the first Bangla Font support initiative for Gentoo Linux. ----cut here---- # Copyright 1999-2003 Gentoo Technologies, Inc. # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 DESCRIPTION="Unicode compliant Open Type Bangla fonts" HOMEPAGE="http://www.nongnu.org/freebangfont/index.html" SRC_BASE="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freebangfont" SRC_URI="${SRC_BASE}/Akaash.pkg/0.8.5/Akaash-0.8.5.tar.gz ${SRC_BASE}/Ani.pkg/0.8.0/Ani-0.8.0.tar.gz ${SRC_BASE}/Likhan.pkg/0.5/Likhan-0.5.tar.gz ${SRC_BASE}/Sagar.pkg/0.6.0/Sagar-0.60.tar.gz" LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" KEYWORDS="~x86" DEPEND="virtual/x11" S="${WORKDIR}" FONTDIR="/usr/share/fonts/ttf/bangla/free-bangla-font/" src_unpack() { cd ${S} for gz in ${A}; do tar -xzf ${DISTDIR}/${gz} done } src_install() { insopts -m0644 insinto ${FONTDIR} doins ${S}/Akaash/*ttf doins ${S}/ani/*ttf doins ${S}/Likhan-0.5/*ttf doins ${S}/Sagar/*ttf mkfontscale ${D}/${FONTDIR} newins ${D}/${FONTDIR}/fonts.scale fonts.dir } pkg_postinst() { einfo "You need you add following line into /etc/X11/XftConfig" einfo "" einfo "\t dir \"${FONTDIR}\"" einfo "" } pkg_postrm(){ einfo "You need you remove following line into /etc/X11/XftConfig" einfo "" einfo "\t dir \"${FONTDIR}\"" einfo "" } ----cut here----
Created an attachment (id=15881) [edit] Ebuild for free-bangla-font
Created an attachment (id=31140) [edit] New ebuild for "Free Bangla Font" I have updated the ebuild of free-bangla-font . Current version for it is free-bangla-font-0.2.ebuild Currently, bangla localized gnome is accepted in offcial releases. To work with bangla-gnome, free-bangla-fonts are needed.
Sorry for the long delay. Added to CVS. Thanks for the ebuild.