Re: [fonts-ibm-plex] switching from OTF to TTF
Jonas Smedegaard wrote on 24/01/2019:
> Quoting Paride Legovini (2019-01-24 13:59:41)
>> Dave Crossland wrote on 24/01/2019:
>>> Does Debian default settings on freetype/fontconfig now render ttf
>>> hinting when available?
>>>
>>> If not, this may not make much difference in practice for most users
>>
>> By default it does, with the "slight" hinting setting.
>>
>>> I also am curious if it's possible to have both versions packaged;
>>> perhaps that needs separate and conflicting packages...
>>
>> Packaging only one version (and consolidating the OTF fonts and the
>> WOFF/WOFF2 fonts in a single package) was a deliberate choice: having
>> multiple packages makes things more difficult to both the maintainer
>> and the users, with very little advantages in most cases...
>
> Which difficulties more specifically do you envision, Paride?
See Fabian's answer: it is not technically difficult (although managing
a single binary package is simpler), but it is confusing for the users,
which often do not find or end with what they actually want.
> I noticed recently that some font packages provide both TrueType and
> OpenType. Would be quite interesting to understand what potential
> breakage to look out for in such packages, or e.g. which version of
> Fontconfig started to treat such scenario sensibly.
Good question: I think packages should not install both TTF and OTF
files for the same font. I'd consider it a bug.
Paride
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