Hi Fabian, last September on your suggestions we have changed the fontconfig hinting for tex-gyre.
Now Roland (in cc, as well as both bugs) seems to have found an incompatibility which might require a rethinking. I would like to ask your opinion on this matter. Thanks for any comments Norbert On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Roland Haas wrote: > Package: fonts-texgyre > Version: 2.004.2-4 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > Updating the system so that fonts-gyrex is used as a replacement for Times. > Possibly due to changes in fontconfig priorities. > * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or > ineffective)? > Opening a pdf file containing fi or fl ligatures. > * What was the outcome of this action? > fi and fl ligatures do not render correctly, they show up as whitespace but > can > be copied and pasted fine. > * What outcome did you expect instead? > fi and fl should show up. > > This is the same bug (I think) as reported on freedesktop's bug tracking > system: > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291 > > where also a link to a sample pdf file is provided. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages fonts-texgyre depends on: > ii dpkg 1.17.6 > ii tex-common 4.04 > > fonts-texgyre recommends no packages. > > fonts-texgyre suggests no packages. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Roland Haas wrote: > > > Hello Norbert, > > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Roland Haas wrote: > >> fi and fl ligatures do not render correctly, they show up as > >> whitespace but can be copied and pasted fine. > > > > > >> From what I read at the freedesktop bug this is a problem with > >> the > > poppler libs ... I *really* don't understand what is the bug here > > in the texgyre fonts? > The issue seems to be that the Termes font uses the wrong name for the > fi and fl ligatures. See comment 7 > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291#c7 > > I am not sure if it the responsibility of the render (poppler) to map > both fi and f_i to the same glyph. Apparently there was some > uncertainty if this is a poppler bug > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291#c14) but > eventually was marked as being an issue with the font (last comment > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291#c17 ). > > According to the comments in there the ligature shows up in gv since > gv prefers the gsfonts fonts over gyretex. > > Yours, > Roland ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREINING, Norbert http://www.preining.info JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
