Re: Free documents using non-free fonts - can they be in main?
olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> wrote:
>>
>>>By the way is it that difficult to the package maintener to regenerate
>>>the document using free fonts? (the script texi2dvi do that nearly
>>>magically without having worrying about LaTeX rerun, makeindex, etc...)
>> For a texinfo file, it's of course easy. For many LaTeX package
>> documentation files, often created from dtx files, it is *that*
>> difficult, as I already explained in this thread.
>
> I do not know the package in question but I am however
> confused. texi2dvi is able to compile standard latex code which are
> not texinfo (it look at the extension to know if it is laTeX or
> texinfo); you can also use the -l LaTeX option.
Please care to read the older messages on that.
> Could you tell what
> the document is so that other people on this list might try. Have you
> tried yourself?
dpkg -L tetex-doc tetex-doc-nonfree | grep /usr/share/doc/texmf
> Have you be in touch with the author (explaining the
> problem)?
With some, yes.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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