Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi Norbert, Am 30.10.2012 00:25, schrieb Norbert Preining: Ok, I have now added code to all/debian/rules.in, and created a script that does the job. Fine, thanks! One question remains from my side: Isn't there anything else that has to be doneto activate the fonts? No fonts.scale shipping?

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
PS: Norbert, I have seen you added the math flavours of tex-gyre and lmodern to the Debian packages. Thanks for that. But I doubt that these math flavours are of any use for applications outside the TeX ecosystem. Please consider removing their install paths from the fontconfig files again

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi PS: Norbert, I have seen you added the math flavours of tex-gyre and lmodern to the Debian packages. Thanks for that.i But I doubt that these math flavours are of any use for applications outside the TeX ecosystem. Please consider removing their install paths from the fontconfig

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 30.10.2012 09:32, schrieb Norbert Preining: For lmodern the old version of the math otf font was shipped in the lm opentype dir, so it was activated. Some TeX applications use fontconfig to search for fonts (xetex) Libreoffice might get math font support, these fonts are not the normal TeX

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi again, I just checked myself by rebuilding the packages from GIT (the upstream tags have not yet been pushed!). The new math fonts are only available in OpenType format, so there is no name space clash with the Type 1 fonts. However, I have found dangling symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 30.10.2012 10:37, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: However, I have found dangling symlinks in /etc/fonts/conf.d in the fonts-texgyre package (yay for dynamically generated links!). This will help: diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules index b8b40aa..ea13913 100755 --- a/debian/rules +++

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Fabian, On Di, 30 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I just checked myself by rebuilding the packages from GIT (the upstream tags have not yet been pushed!). Because it is still in NEW ;-) The new math fonts are only available in OpenType format, so there is no name space clash with the

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-30 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 31 Okt 2012, Norbert Preining wrote: I just checked myself by rebuilding the packages from GIT (the upstream tags have not yet been pushed!). Because it is still in NEW ;-) Actually, because I forgot to tag it shame on me. ANyway, I uploaded -2 with the links fixed, tagged it

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-29 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Fabian, On Do, 25 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: My attempt was to concretize the idea to make selected texlive fonts available to fontconfig, as described in the initial bug report. I am Ok, I have now added code to all/debian/rules.in, and created a script that does the job. One

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-25 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Good morning Norbert, Am 25.10.2012 00:50, schrieb Norbert Preining: Are you sure that all the fonts that are in texmf-dist/fonts/type1/{adobe,bitstrea,urw}/*/*.pfb in the texlive-base.orig.tar.gz, now and in future, will be installed into texlive-fonts-recommended? I am not sure. Me

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-24 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.10.2012 10:57, schrieb Fabian Greffrath: So it'd be a better idea to symlink all the relevant .pfb and .afm files into /usr/share/fonts/type1 than adding their directories to fontconfig's search pattern, right? I have added a few lines to debian/rules that take all the .pfb files in the

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-24 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Fabian, thanks for the patch and idea .. On Mi, 24 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: I have added a few lines to debian/rules that take all the .pfb files in Assume that we go this way, looking at your patch I have some questions: + for p in

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.10.2012 02:40, schrieb Norbert Preining: afm files provides the metrics for the characters, without them the display looks bad. The X server (at least at some point int the past) searched for the afm files in the same directory as the pfb/pfa files. So it'd be a better idea to symlink

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-07 Thread Fabian Greffrath
On second thought, this approach will miss the .afm files. I am not yet sure what to do with them, as some are duplicated in adobe/ and urw/ directories, respectively. What exactly is their purpose, are they required at all? - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#689837: Acknowledgement (Please register the psnfss fonts with fontconfig)

2012-10-07 Thread Norbert Preining
On So, 07 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: On second thought, this approach will miss the .afm files. I am not yet sure what to do with them, as some are duplicated in adobe/ and urw/ directories, respectively. What exactly is their purpose, are they required at all? afm files provides the