Re: Where's the "mfdcfnt" package?
Martin Alonso Soto Jacome <masoto@uniandes.edu.co> writes:
>
> Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> wrote:
> > No, mfdcfnt is no problem anymore: The EC fonts just got released and
> > replace the DC fonts. I was told that EC fonts are "free" (in Debian
> > sense) while DC had some restrictions. tetex comes with the new EC fonts,
> > so this should be no problem.
>
> Package tetex-extra (version 0.4pl6-3) still includes a copy of the DC
> fonts, that gets installed under
> /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/source/jknappen/dc/. Although you are right in
> that DC fonts are basically obsolete now, they continue to be needed,
> at least for some old DVI files to work correctly. I guess they'll
> have to be moved to non-free, for they still have a copyright note that
> prevents them from being distributed commercially.
>
This is no problem in one of the next upstream teTeX versions, because
Bernd Raichle replaced them with virtual fonts using the ec-fonts.
Christoph
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