On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:51 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > But you seem to be the person who has the clearest understanding of what > the mess is, and where files are dispersed. Now that we've established > that the thing is non-free - could you provide a list of them, so that > we can remove them?
Sure. And I'll try to document how to find such things. Starting point is /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/palatcm/palatcm.sty. In there different symbol fonts for the font family 'pplcm' are defined with encodings OT1, OML, OMS, and OMX. In order to use these font families, LaTeX will look for files named <encoding><family>.fd. All these files are in the same directory, and that's all that is there: $ ls /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/palatcm/ omlpplcm.fd omspplcm.fd omxpplcm.fd ot1pplcm.fd palatcm.sty These files define the mapping between LaTeX fonts names and TeX (virtual) fonts. The following TeX (virtual) fonts are referred to: zpplcmrm zpplcmbm zpplcmry zpplcmby zpplcmrv zpplcmr zpplcmb dlocate tells me that for each of these virtual fonts there is a TFM and a VF file in /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/tfm/adobe/mathppl/ and /usr/share/texmf-tetex/fonts/vf/adobe/mathppl/, respectively. Now we could look into these virtual fonts with, eg, vftovp $(kpsewhich zpplcmby.vf) $(kpsewhich zpplcmby.tfm) | less to see what fonts are used in there (cmbsy10 and pzcmi8r=Zapf Chancery in this case). It might be, that palatcm contained other fonts that are used here. However, this is not the case. These virtual fonts use CM and PSNFSS fonts only. I did not find any documentation for palatcm.sty. Summary, the following directories (relative to TEXMFDIST) have to be removed together with their content: fonts/tfm/adobe/mathppl fonts/vf/adobe/mathppl tex/latex/palatcm cheerio ralf
