* Florian Schlichting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-01-07 13:36]:
> Package: tipa
> Version: 2:1.3-4
> Severity: minor
>
> the tipa package description says: "Type 1 fonts for TIPA are also
> included in this package (to make them available in X11, please install
> the xfonts-tipa package)."
>
> Since actually viewing the results of one's typesetting is often an
> essential step, wouldn't that merit a mention of xfonts-tipa as
> Suggests: or even Recommends?
Well, the xfonts-tipa package is not necessary for "viewing the results of
one's typesetting". The tipa package is intended only for use with LaTeX
and there is no need to have the xfonts-tipa installed in order to
generate/visualize PostScript or PDF documents with the IPA characters.
Try the following, if you do not believe me:
$ sudo apt-get remove xfonts-tipa
$ sudo apt-get install tipa
$ cat > test.tex <<EOF
cat test.tex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tipa}
\begin{document}
\textipa{SE}
\end{document}
EOF
$ pdflatex test
$ xpdf test.pdf
> (why is xfonts-tipa a separate package anyway, since it Depends: tipa and
> its 127k will hardly make a difference to tipa's 10.5M installed size?)
Half of this are documentation files. I should someday create a tipa-doc
package.
The xfonts-tipa package depends on defoma and xfonts-utils. This later one
depends on libfontenc1, libfreetype6, libxfont1, zlib1g, x11-common, and
xfonts-encodings, and so on. Including xfonts-tipa into tipa will add
unnecessary dependencies for people installing only a LaTeX-related package.
I will soon close this bug report if you do not object and/or produce more
convincing arguments.
--
Rafael
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