Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:
>> +Description: Additional Type1-fonts for teTeX
>> + This package contains the afm- and pfb-files of some postscript fonts
>> + from Adobe, Bitstream, URW etc. It was split off, to provide other
>> + packages with these fonts.
>>
>> "Additional Type1-fonts for teTeX" and "It was split off"
>> are a natural in that case?
>>
> Are there any native speakers out there? "Additional Type1-fonts for
> teTeX" is a little bit confusing, as these fonts are contained in
> upstream teTeX and hence not additional. How to describe better?
> "Type1-fonts for teTeX (part 1)"? Suggestions?
Not a native speaker. Still I have a suggestion:
Description: Type1-fonts for teTeX
This package contains PostScript Type1-fonts from Adobe, Bitstream, URW
etc. They are needed for teTeX, but have been split from the tetex-extra
package in order to provide other packages with these fonts.
>> # To me, it sounds like an explanation for mutually disjoint
>> # packages.
>>
>> Also I suspect that there is a request to split tetex-* into
>> smaller packages so there could be another approach which split
>> tetex-extra into tetex-extra without type1 fonts and
>> tetex-extra-fonts with type1 fonts only. Is it already discussed on
>> this approach?
>>
> Not at all. We've just that request from mozilla-users, who want to
> display Math ML in Mozilla and need these fonts independent of teTeX.
As pointed out earlier in a sub-discussion with Florent and Hilmar, I
don't think that just splitting off type1 fonts from tetex-extra is a
good means to get tetex-extra smaller or more modular: The rest of the
files for these fonts takes much more space. Therefore, if we want to
make tetex-extra more modular in the future, splitting will be done in a
different way, I expect.
If we split along the lines "exotic formats" vs. "fonts" vs. "other
stuff" or the like, we are on the safe side with the current plans for
tetex-extra-type1fonts (or whatever the name will be). Then the new
tetex-extra-fonts can just depend on tetex-extra-type1fonts.
I we split diffently, like "extras for math use", "extras for pdf
creation", then for exapmle the wasy fonts would go to the maths
package, while the standard PS fonts or the omega fonts would not. But I
also think that this would not cause big problems. We could just keep
tetex-extra-type1fonts as it is, and both the math package and the pdf
package would depend on it.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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