Package: texlive-fonts-recommended Version: 2007.dfsg.1-5 While reading some LaTeX package documentation today, I happened to notice that Debian includes a version of Palatino (or URW Palladio) with real small capitals and old-style figures in /usr/share/ texmf-texlive/fonts/ type1/public/fpl/. This quite surprised me, since I had thought that Computer Modern (or Latin Modern) is one of the very few free software font families that contain them - I thought I had looked through the various TTF and PostScript fonts available in Debian quite carefully.
The fonts in texlive-fonts-recommended don't seem to be registered for other applications, even though some of them appear to be normal Type1 fonts. Thus they cannot be found, for example, by looking at the list of fonts offered by Scribus or OpenOffice or xfontsel in Debian. The fc-list utility from fontconfig also does not seem to know about them. I don't really know what Debian's policy on fonts says or where exactly such fonts could be registered (defoma maybe?) so that they are found. But I think it would be useful to make these fonts easily available also to non-TeX users. A quick glance at http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/review/pkg-texlive-fonts-recommended.html suggests three or four font families that don't appear to be present in other packages: - the small-caps and old-style-figure Palatino variations in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/fpl/ e.g., fplrc8a.pfb - the condensed Helvetica variant in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/urw/helvetic/ e.g., uhvr8ac.pfb - Adobe Utopia in /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/ e.g., putr8a.pfb - possibly the fraktur-style txmia and pxmia fonts, although I'm not sure if they are designed to be used in text or only in math: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/txfonts/txmia.pfb /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/txfonts/txbmia.pfb /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/pxfonts/pxmia.pfb /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/public/pxfonts/pxbmia.pfb Most of the others appear to have copies in gsfonts and lmodern that are already present in, e.g., fc-list. Maybe this is slightly related to bug #327480, although that talks more about providing the more exotic variants of Computer Modern that are (or were?) not present in lmodern. Also, there appear to be quite a few more nice-looking fonts in texlive-fonts-extra. They would also be nice to see in the font lists of non-TeX applications (at least the ones with Roman alphabets - I'm not sure if the others are encoded in a way that is easy to use from, e.g., openoffice). -- -=- Rjs -=- r...@cs.hut.fi, riku.saikko...@hut.fi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
