How To Install gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36.
What is gfs-complutum-fonts
The ancient Greek alphabet evolved during the millennium of the Byzantine era from majuscule to minuscule form and gradually incorporated a wide array of ligatures, flourishes and other decorative nuances which defined its extravagant cursive character. Until the late 15th century, typographers who had to deal with Greek text avoided emulating this complicated hand; instead they would use only the twenty four letters of the alphabet separately, often without accents and other diacritics. A celebrated example is the type cut and cast for the typesetting of the New Testament in the so-called Complutensian Polyglot Bible (1512), edited by the Greek scholar, Demetrios Doukas. The type was cut by Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar and the whole edition was a commission by cardinal Francisco Ximénez, in the University of Alcalá (Complutum), Spain. It is one of the best and most representative models of this early tradition in Greek typography which was revived in the early 20th century by the eminent bibliographer of the British Library, Richard Proctor. A font named Otter Greek was cut in 1903 and a book was printed using the new type. The original type had no capitals so Proctor added his own, which were rather large and ill-fitted. The early death of Proctor, the big size of the font and the different aesthetic notions of the time were the reasons that Otter Greek was destined to oblivion, as a curiosity. Greek Font Society incorporated Brocar’s famous and distinctive type in the commemorative edition of Pindar’s Odes for the Athens Olympics (2004) and the type with a new set of capitals, revived digitally by George D. Matthiopoulos, is now available for general use.
We can use yum or dnf to install gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gfs-complutum-fonts.
Install gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gfs-complutum-fonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gfs-complutum-fonts
Install gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install gfs-complutum-fonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gfs-complutum-fonts
How To Uninstall gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the gfs-complutum-fonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gfs-complutum-fonts
gfs-complutum-fonts Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/fonts/conf.d/61-gfs-complutum-fonts.conf
/usr/share/doc/gfs-complutum-fonts
/usr/share/doc/gfs-complutum-fonts/OFL-FAQ.txt
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/61-gfs-complutum-fonts.conf
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-complutum-fonts
/usr/share/fonts/gfs-complutum-fonts/GFSPolyglot.otf
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-complutum-fonts
/usr/share/licenses/gfs-complutum-fonts/OFL.txt
/usr/share/metainfo/org.fedoraproject.gfs-complutum-fonts.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gfs-complutum-fonts on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
