Fonts in media-fonts generally could be given much better descriptions, especially regarding just what part of unicode they cover, if they conflict with some other font and so on.. acroread:DESCRIPTION="Asian Font Packs for Acrobat Reader 5.0" - this is okey aquafont/aquafont:DESCRIPTION="Very pretty Japanese truetype font" aquafont/aquafont:DESCRIPTION="Very pretty truetype font" - right, what is a truetype font and what does that cover? aquapfont/aquapfont:DESCRIPTION="Very pretty Japanese proportinal truetype font" aquapfont/aquapfont:DESCRIPTION="Very pretty Japanese proportional truetype font" arphicfonts/arphicfonts:DESCRIPTION="Arphic Fonts" - i only found out these were CJK elsewhere artwiz:DESCRIPTION="Artwiz Aleczapko fonts" - again, needs description artwiz:DESCRIPTION="Artwiz Fonts" baekmuk:DESCRIPTION="Korean Baekmuk Font" - pretty good, i know they're korean chkfontpath/chkfontpath:DESCRIPTION="Simple interface for editing the font path for the X font server" corefonts/corefonts:DESCRIPTION="Microsoft's TrueType core fonts" - again, what do these cover, i've heard they're good but a few more words could be trown at it. cronyx:DESCRIPTION="Cronyx Cyrillic bitmap fonts for X" culmus/culmus:DESCRIPTION="Hebrew Type1 fonts" efont:DESCRIPTION="The /efont/ Unicode Bitmap Fonts" free:DESCRIPTION="Unicode compliant Open Type Bangla fonts" freefonts/freefonts:DESCRIPTION="A Collection of Free Type1 Fonts" - what are free type one gnu:DESCRIPTION="Ghostscript Extra Fonts" -... which contain?? gnu:DESCRIPTION="Ghostscript Standard Fonts" hkscs:DESCRIPTION="Hong Kong SAR Government Official Reference Chinese Font that implements ISO10646 and HKSCS-2001" intlfonts/intlfonts:DESCRIPTION="International X11 fixed fonts" -what kind of international fonts jisx0213:DESCRIPTION="Japanese JIS0213 fonts" -what are those? kochi:DESCRIPTION="Kochi Japanese TrueType fonts with Wadalab Fonts" konfont/konfont:DESCRIPTION="Fontset for KON2" lfpfonts:DESCRIPTION="Linux Font Project fixed-width fonts" lfpfonts:DESCRIPTION="Linux Font Project variable-width fonts" mikachan:DESCRIPTION="Mikachan Japanese TrueType fonts" monafont/monafont:DESCRIPTION="Japanese bitmap and TrueType fonts suitable for browsing 2ch" monafont/monafont:DESCRIPTION="Japanese bitmap fonts suitable for browsing 2ch" mplus:DESCRIPTION="M+ Japanese bitmap fonts" nepali:DESCRIPTION="a collection of fonts for Nepali users" oto/oto:DESCRIPTION="Open Type Organizer" pcf2bdf/pcf2bdf:DESCRIPTION="Converts PCF fonts to BDF fonts" sazanami/sazanami:DESCRIPTION="Sazanami Japanese TrueType fonts" sharefonts/sharefonts:DESCRIPTION="A Collection of True Type Fonts" shinonome/shinonome:DESCRIPTION="Japanese bitmap fonts for X" terminus:DESCRIPTION="A clean fixed font for the console and X11" ttf:DESCRIPTION="Bitstream Vera font family" ttf:DESCRIPTION="Gentium Typeface" twmoefonts/twmoefonts:DESCRIPTION="Standard tranditional Chinese fonts made by Minister of Education (MOE), Republic of China." unfonts/unfonts:DESCRIPTION="Korean UnFonts" unifont/unifont:DESCRIPTION="X11 GNU unicode font" -what part of unicode urw:DESCRIPTION="free good quality fonts gpl'd by URW++" vc:DESCRIPTION="Vico bitmap Fonts" x11fonts:DESCRIPTION="This package contains character-cell fonts for use with X." zh:DESCRIPTION="Kuo Chauo Chinese Fonts collection in BIG5 encoding" Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
you have an excellent point
Do you have any real suggestions for change. It's hard to describe fonts, it's pretty useless to mention the type (although a lot of ppl do know TTF), but coverage means something to even less. Better maybe to have a generic description & a long description in metadata with more exact info. Maybe we could create a fontpage for gentoo where you can have a look at all available font packs and show what they offer.
"Fonts in media-fonts generally could be given much better descriptions, especially regarding just what part of unicode they cover, if they conflict with some other font and so on.." I think that would suffice, say what area they cover, "Korean Baekmuk Font" while "X11 GNU unicode font" doesnt say what part of unicode, generally just provide more detailed info.
Reopen if you have some better descriptions, meanwhile marking LATER.
