On 2016-07-22 15:10, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
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The customer for whom I prepared a package file for a journal depends
on files from authors and thus has no control over authors' computers.
Finally he decided not to use DejaVu and other special fonts but only
TeX Gyre fonts. Since then they have no problems. DejaVu fonts evolve
too quickly and if you upgrade, the page breaks may change and even
the total number of pages will be different. It really happend and
they were unable to create the final PDF and time was running, I had
to create it on my computer with "better" version of the DejaVu fonts.
I do not want to dehonest the fonts, I just report my problems in the
past. IMHO they are not production ready.
Thanks for the advice, I can't remember whether we tried TeX Gyre.
Another alternative, which I have not tried yet, seems to be the Fira
Sans font, which exists in both proportionally and mono-spaced versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans
I'm not sure what its code point coverage is, nor whether it handles
stacked diacritics; we'll see.
Mike Maxwell
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