Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-27 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:20 +0100, Jonathan Underwood wrote: In actual fact, the reason that I had made little headway is that when you start to look at the problem carefully you start to realize that it's a bit of a mistake for Fedora to be repackaging the texlive distribution rather than

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:04 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote: I did not have time finish writing all the details below, I'll write some more tonight, but before this Type 1 bashing gets out of hand, read the stuff below. If you don't want the gory details, the bottom line is that the mainstream

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: — We should not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories. TEX should use system fonts directly. XeTeX can do that. TeX probably NEVER will because that violates TDS. If you don't what that means, then don't

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Dave Crossland
2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: — We should not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories. TEX should use system fonts directly. XeTeX can do that. TeX probably NEVER will because that

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Vasile Gaburici
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I second the idea that TeX ought to be an exception to the guideline not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories; TeX predates all other programs in a GNU/Linux

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 20:50 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: 2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: — We should not hide general-purpose fonts in app-specific directories. TEX should use system fonts directly.

Re: TeX fonts, part one [Was: Re: [Fedora-packaging] Proposed amendment to general packaging guidelines: no bundling of fonts in other packages]

2008-07-25 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 23:18 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/7/25 Vasile Gaburici [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I second the idea that TeX ought to be an exception to the guideline not hide general-purpose fonts in