Package: xfonts-scalable Version: 1:1.0.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org
Hi. I am intereted in fonts for some time (I am interested in Typography and fonts are one obvious aspect of it). Having been playing with XeTeX, I became interested to see which hight-quality Free Software fonts that we had and, surprisingly, one of the fonts that are usable with *TeX, Utopia, is Free, but seems to be excluded from xfonts-scalable. Here is some background on the issue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_%28typeface%29 One thing that is interesting to note is that Utopia is present in Type 1 format in the texlive packages, but it seems that texlive doesn't register the fonts with X, as they are installed in a directory other than /usr/share/fonts: ,---- | rbr...@chagas:~$ ls -log /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/put* | -rw-r--r-- 1 36737 Nov 22 2006 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/putb8a.pfb | -rw-r--r-- 1 37993 Nov 22 2006 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/putbi8a.pfb | -rw-r--r-- 1 36507 Nov 22 2006 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/putr8a.pfb | -rw-r--r-- 1 37756 Nov 22 2006 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/type1/adobe/utopia/putri8a.pfb | rbr...@chagas:~$ `---- I would, therefore, propose some coordination between debian-tex-maint, debian-x and the fonts team. Since I am interested in the fonts thing, I am willing to help, but I don't have many rights, as I am only a Debian Maintainer. Thanks, Rogério Brito. P.S.: Just for the record, I generated, with FontForge, a very quick and dirty truetype package with Utopia from the Type 1 fonts in texlive, so that I can freely use it with fontconfig. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc5-00237-g9a3cbe3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages xfonts-scalable depends on: ii xfonts-utils 1:7.5+2 X Window System font utility progr xfonts-scalable recommends no packages. Versions of packages xfonts-scalable suggests: ii xserver-xorg-core [xserver] 2:1.7.4-2 Xorg X server - core server -- no debconf information -- Rogério Brito : rbr...@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 1024D/7C2CAEB8 http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
