Dear all, Dear Karl, @all: I include Karl Berry, maintainer of the fontname standard, head of the TeX Live team, etc etc etc
@Karl: I think you remebered that I contacted you some time ago about the problem with scalable-cyrfonts shipping fpl fonts conflicting with fonts in TeX Live. Here are my remarks, Karl, if you have additions of corrections, feel free, but keep everyone in Cc. * the fonts have not been uploaded to the CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network), which is the main distribution center for all TeX related things. * the package is open for adoption since 2010, that is close to two years * these fonts have unclear license status. It is not clear whether taking the various glyphs from various sides and adding some things and sticking it together is fine. * the fpl fonts as available on CTAN and shipped in TeX Live are there since 2004 Honestly, I don't see any reason to create problems for users of TeX due to fonts that are not visible to the outside work, that have never been uploaded, publicized in any proper forum related to TeX, and are not maintained anymore. On So, 22 Jul 2012, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 14:54 +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > When the maintainter created this package many years ago (that was me) > > there was no such conflict and the font names of the package were > > compliant with the font name guidelines used by the TeX community. > > > > http://tug.org/fontname/html/ > > > > As far as I know, at that time no TeX font conflicted with these names > > and in particular no Debian package shipped fonts with conflicting font > > names. > > > > A long time passed since then. I no longer feel myself competent to > > either assess properly the present conflict or to be sure I am > > implementing the right solution. > > > > Dropping scalable-cyrfonts-tex is not something desirable. This package > > provides several styles whose effect (I think) is not achievable without > > this package. I mean styles such as cyrtimes, cyrbookman, cyrnewcent, > > cyrpalatino, teams. > > TeX maintainers - any comments / thoughts? Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DULEEK (n.) Sudden realisation, as you lie in bed waiting for the alarm to go off, that it should have gone off an hour ago. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
