Bug#225004: tetex-extra: Type1 fonts should be in a separate package

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> I've opened #280567 against mozilla-browser, to add a suggest
> (firefox does that already). I guess we can close these bugs.
> Hmm: on the one hand I don't like to throw away the work I've done,
> on the other hand it is surplus now.
> To all: What do you think? Should we close that bug or are the other
> fonts in tetex-extra (which are not covered by latex-xft-fonts) worth
> to provide them to the rest of the world?

Looking at the pfb files provided by tetex-extra (all paths are relative
to /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1; order is the one obtained with
'dpkg -L tetex-extra'):

  bitstrea/charter  already provided by X

  bluesky/cm        skipping (well, there may be some of them that would be
                    interesting to have outside of TeX, I just didn't
                    look closely; also, I didn't check the quality of
                    the TrueType fonts provided in latex-xft-fonts,
                    which I suppose were obtained by some sort of
                    conversion from the MF sources or the Type 1 fonts
                    given by the AMS); would need further investigation

  bluesky/cyrillic  not useful to me, but probably to someone else; don't
                    seem to be available to X apps [With The Packages
                    Installed In My Sid Chroot]

  bluesky/euler     don't seem to be available to X apps [WTPIIMSC]
  
  [...]             mostly symbol fonts, many of which cause gfontview
                    to perform an endless error dialog box loop (I don't
                    know why); that being said, some of them don't cause
                    any error (e.g., bluesky/symbols) and could be
                    interesting, especially if the characters have
                    standard PostScript names (which I think is not
                    always possible); would need further investigation

  public/eurosym    not many characters in these (5 in every variation,
                    as it seems), but probably could be useful...

  public/omega      there seems to be interesting stuff in there, that
                    doesn't seem to be available to X apps [WTPIIMSC]

  public/xypic      very specialized symbol fonts (such as short segments
                    with various slopes)...

  urw/avantgar      all these seem to be in gsfonts, although the names are
  [...]             often slightly changed; but you can see the mapping by
  urw/zapfding      looking at the FullName in the afm files; for
                    instance, under avantgar/, you find the URW Gothic L
                    family, under helvetic/, the Nimbus Sans L family,
                    under palatino/, the URW Palladio L family, etc. So,
                    it seems that it is not useful to export these fonts.

HTH a bit. 
  
-- 
Florent