Hi Hans,
On Sun, 2026-03-15 at 17:18 +0100, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> Well, tex live kicks out files that reference non free fonts
That's not _quite_ true (but is fairly close). A file that exists only
for the purpose of using other non-free software (including fonts) isn't
allowed, with the exception that files that only reference non-free by
name (and not by content/structure) are allowed:
https://tug.org/texlive/pkgcontrib.html#requirements
The wording is a little confusing there (sorry), but I pushed for that
policy change to specifically allow including all the type-imp-* files,
including the ones that reference non-free fonts (since this wasn't
allowed prior to last May).
The *.lfg files for non-free fonts still aren't allowed though. Since
ConTeXt (understandably) gets confused when the goodie files are
missing, I've chosen to also exclude the corresponding type-imp-* files.
Currently, this means that the TL package excludes the following
type-imp-* files:
type-imp-cambria.mkiv
type-imp-koeielettersot.mkiv
type-imp-lucida.mkiv
type-imp-lucida-typeone.mkiv
type-imp-mathtimes.mkiv
type-imp-minion.mkiv
type-imp-mscore.mkiv
All the other files (even the ones that refer to non-free fonts) are
still included in TL.
> so these users are toast anyway.
Not quite "toast", just not installed by default. All these files are
available in the tlcontrib repo
https://contrib.texlive.info/
so installing them only needs two commands:
$ tlmgr repository add https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlcontrib
tlcontrib
$ tlmgr install context-nonfree
After that, *all* of the files contained in the Standalone Distribution
but excluded from the default installation of TL will be available in
their standard locations, and will automatically update with the rest of
the packages.
(I'm aware that this is still somewhat inconvenient, and that most users
won't do this, but this is the best/only option available to me.)
Thanks,
-- Max
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