On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:20:31AM +0000, Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > --- On Mon, 5/12/11, Theppitak <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I can't understand this. So, all software should be > > monolithic and should > > not be splitted into library modules, as the libraries are > > not functional > > by themselves? > > No, I mean this - the fonts are useful by themselves (for display and > for other packages), thailatex is not useful without the fonts. So the > dependencies should be like this: > > - fonts optionally depends on *core tex font tools*, and bundles the enc > files to build the optional tex support files. > > - thailatex should depends on the fonts (or one core set of such).
One issue that should be mentioned: the ENC file is not trivial for Thai. It provides complicated LIGKERN rules which even worth a paper. (Werner has done at least one for it.) It's easier to adapt fonts to the rules than to create ENCs for individual fonts. That's why I try to ship the ENC file in a single place. To achieve this, one possible design is: - A dedicated package for ENC - Fonts build-depends and depends on ENC - thailatex only ships a few Babel stuffs and alternatively depends on fonts But the common use case for Thai LaTeX document preparation is to use Babel anyway. So, it can be said the Thai LaTeX font stuffs are not useful without the language definition from thailatex. And if the fonts should depend on thailatex anyways, merging the ENC into it makes some sense. Note that XeTeX argument is not the case here, as users can build the fonts as normal desktop fonts for it without the needs of LaTeX specialties anyway. Neither are the desktop fonts argument, as the source can already be configured to build without LaTeX support, and thus without dependency on LaTeX. thailatex can depend on a font package, but that would put some preference of the developer upon users. There are at least two common practices for Thai fonts in official/academic documents nowadays, both equally official, one is traditional and the other is newly enforced by the government. So, I put it this way: let the user decide which font set they want, and the advanced packaging systems (apt, yum, etc.) should pull other dependencies for them. And thailatex may point to some fonts with weaker dependencies, such as Recommends or Suggests, to prevent the circular dependencies. -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ _______________________________________________ Cjk maillist - [email protected] https://lists.ffii.org/mailman/listinfo/cjk
