On 2017-08-07 15:53, Mike "Pomax" Kamermans wrote: > On 8/6/2017 6:38 PM, Bobby de Vos wrote: >> He also thinks fontconfig/freetype should be enhanced so TrueType >> (and I would add OpenType) fonts are prioritized before WOFF. > > The idea of "installing" a WOFF resource for serving by an OS font > manager is... bad? That's not what WOFF are for, they are explicitly > intended to NOT be system level fonts, and allow certain data to be > omitted because the deployment is known to not be DTP and applications > but web content through CSS instructions. Using WOFF anyway for > something like Xe(La)TeX makes no sense, and if Debian allows WOFF to > be installed at the OS level, that's worth notifying the team over > because that's not a thing your OS should be doing. Maybe Jonathan as > one of the WOFF spec authors has a more nuanced opinion here, but this > problem sounds like it stems directly from an OS treating WOFF > resources as something they are absolutely not, with the obvious and > predictable result of breaking expectations about font resource handling.
I tend to agree with you Mike (and thank you for your comments). FWIW, one of the fontconfig maintainers feels differently [1]. Debian does not have consensus on where to place WOFF files, other than under /usr/share/fonts where fontconfig finds them. So for my needs, I will just not put WOFF files in Debian packages, and the issue (for the people I support) is solved (with no work needed from the XeTeX community). What the right thing to do, and by whom, is getting beyond me. [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101270#c10 -- Bobby de Vos /devos.bo...@gmail.com/
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