Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: > >> Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Is there someting like a "required" list for fonts? >>> >>> Good question. One definitely needs CM (with additions from AMS, maybe >>> Euler, too), preferably also in Type1 format (bluesky + tt2001). >> >> What is tt2001? > > A collection of autotraced (tt=textrace) Type1 fonts. Largely superseded > by cm-super. teTeX uses the traced version of cmex[789], though, since > nobody else has converted these math fonts under a free license (bluesky > has cmex10 only). See TEXMF/fonts/type1/public/tt2001 and > <URL:http://groups.google.de/group/de.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/c672d911126a55da/> > for what happens if one forgets to include these fonts. I think the
Thank you > BaKoMa fonts mentioned in this thread are meanwhile free, but I am not sure. It seems so, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/06/msg00343.html >> >> We could ask Walter Schmidt about this. > > Good idea. It's probably best if I do this at our next 'TeX Stammtisch' > here in Erlangen. Very good. >>> PSNFSS calls in the >>> URW fonts plus charter, mathpazo and FPL. On the other hand, pxfonts, >>> txfonts, and antt, which are all in tetex-base, are not 'required' >>> IMHO. >> >> And antp - strangely the fd files are in tetex-extra, but the afm, tfm >> and pfb files are in -base. I hope we don't have more of similar >> inconsistencies. > > fd files for antt are in tetex-extra, too. But that is not as bad as the > problem with the EC fonts. Yes, but it means that no user will complain if we move them, because they are unusable with tetex-base only, anyway. > I think I will first have a closer look at what gs it actualy doing. And > actually I am not sure what sort of bug one should file here. Or are you > speaking about Fontmap vs. Fontmap.GS only? In that case, I think it > would be gs-{gpl,esp,afpl} which should get the bug. At least tha is my > current understanding which is, of course, subject to change. :-) Well, I thought of a "I want to configure, but something goes wrong" sort of bug where the maintainer first thinks you are a DAU and only slowly figures out that their package might not be in ideal shape. Had a couple of these filed against tetex... Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
