[Continued from last mail. If this makes it through that makes 2/2!]
And wait, there's more ... the first issue of just USING this font again is now solved, by either changing all the software that mentions LMTypewriter10 to instead look at LMMono10 (until someone decides to rename it again, grumble!), or edit local.conf to include the "context" font dir and then use 'Latin Modern Typewriter' or 'LMTypewriter10 Regular' as the font name. I can deal with that just to get the font back, and meanwhile hope the lmodern people bring back LMTypewriter10. But the second issue is that it's not just LMTypewriter10 that went missing. All kinds of fonts are simply gone, like OldDreadfulNo7BT and ZurichExBT. The problem is, I don't know right now exactly wAnd I'm 90% sure that these fonts are from TeX Live. (I have to figure out a way now to search all these dirs and search Debian packages to see where these things came from and where they are. But they DID exist on my Lenny system and are gone now on Squeeze.) Since Robert's suggestion of adding to /etc/fonts/local.conf worked, I bet I can add /usr/share/texmf/fonts and /usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts to that file, right? Or, maybe just add the Truetype and Opentype fonts: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype /usr/share/texmf/fonts/truetype usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/opentype usr/share/texmf-texlive/fonts/truetype As it turns out, other people are aware of this issue. This is talked about as a fontconfig bug here: http://osdir.com/ml/debian-tex-maint-debian/2009-12/msg00109.html Similar discussion here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live And even more stuff here: http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/bug-478704-texlive-xetex-478704-fontconfig-instead-help-168920351.html But this solution feels like a major 'kludge' to me. Isn't it? Because these are pretty obviously not 'local' fonts at all. The user shouldn't have to modify local.conf for them. Since they're in /usr/share, and they're basically major fonts for anyone who has TeX installed, shouldn't the texlive packages be adding this to fontconfig somehow?? That's major issue / potential bug right there. Finally, last question, and one I asked on the Debian TeX hacker's list, but I'd like to get everybody's opinion on this: is Defoma dead/dying/deprecated/no longer necessary? I still have it installed, but with all my emphasis on fontconfig now I don't even know why I need it. Should I nuke it? Is fontconfig all that we need to get our apps to see fonts? Thanks so much everybody for all this great help! Erin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/591220.16579...@web114602.mail.gq1.yahoo.com
