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Noto font packages need OTF support #7

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Using OTF for Noto fonts should be easier. I want to use the Noto font due to the family's extensive glyph support. GNOME, in one of their recent releases, changed how text is shaped in the UI with their rendering engine. Only OTF fonts contained enough extra metadata to allow the shaping to work well. As the superior format to TTF, this makes sense. However, what's distributed by Arch Linux by default, namely, noto-fonts and noto-fonts-cjk, ship only the TTF variants. I've worked around this by making my own PKGBUILD AUR style packages that I can install, but this solution feels incomplete. I think ideally, we should update Arch Linux's noto-fonts* packages and split them between TTF and OTF, so that we can do what Arch Linux did with Cascadia Code, and offering both otf-cascadia-code and ttf-cascadia-code.

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