[debian-devel:17568] Re: Fw: Bug#531190: ITP: otf-ipafont - Japanese OpenType font, IPAfont

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:59:18PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> こんにちは
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> > 
> >    Package name: otf-ipafont
> >         Version: 00301
> > Upstream Author: Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan.
> >             URL: http://ossipedia.ipa.go.jp/ipafont/
> >         License: IPA Font License (OSI approval) 
> >                  http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ipafont.html
> >     Description: Japanese OpenType font, IPAfont
> >                  IPAfont is Japanese OpenType font set that provided by 
> >                  Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA does 
> >                  NOT mean International Phonetic Alphabet).
> 
> IPA does NOT mean.. の節は、IPA= Information-technology Promotion Agency と書いてあるから不要かな?

以下でどうでしょうか？

Package name: otf-ipafont
Description: Japanese OpenType font set, IPAfont
 IPAfont is a Japanese OpenType[1] font set that is provided by
 Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA).

 IPAfont is an outline font set suitable for both display and printing.
 
 It comes with 4 styles in it. Equal-width and propotional styles
 are provided for both Mincho (serif) and Gothic (san-serif) styles.  It
 is known for its quality and formal style.
 
 It covers practically every characters used in Japanese business
 environments, i.e. about 11,000 characters based on JIS X 0213：2004.

[1] OpenType font is a scalable font which was developed to supersede
    both the TrueType and the Type 1 ("PostScript") font formats.

> それよりもユーザ観点としてしりたいことは、次のような内容かな?
> 
> ・opentype font はどういうふうに使えるものなのか?(ttfとどうちがう?)
> ・serif / non-serif のどちらのフォントが入っているのか　(両方?)
> ・どういう書体なのか。(日常の文書に使える固いフォント?)

ところで、縦書き、横書き対応してます？

等幅フォントは本当は誤解を招きそうですが、そうIPAで呼んでいるのでそう訳してます。

青木