Bug#186354: Missing afm files for many fonts

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

severity 186354 wishlist
thanks

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0-1
> 
>   The tetex-extra package installs the Blue Sky Computer Modern fonts,
> but not the associated afm files.  For example, it ships:
> 
>   /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmss17.pfb
> 
>   But there is no afm for this font to be found. I figured that maybe
> the information was contained in there somehow, but pf2afm generated an
> afm which did not include kerning information.
> 
I'm not completely sure, but I guess that the afm-Files are not
needed by by TeX, cause there are still the tfm-Files, which are read
during compile time. So I don't understand, why do you want the
afm-files to be included. I've set your bug to severity wishlist.

H. 
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