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

[Victor Porton <porton@ex-code.com>]

On 06-Feb-2004 Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> merge 138394 225004
> thanks
> 
> On 24.12.03 Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com) wrote:
> 
>> Type1 fonts (together with corresponding .afm files) contained in
>> this package (such as "eufm" font) should be in a separate package
>> (tetex-extra-fonts?).
>> 
>> They are needed independingly of TeX (e.g. for math on the Web in
>> MathML format).
>> 
> Very preliminery patch included. I've just split off the pfb- and
> afm-files. I don't call mktexlsr, as that would make the package
> dependent on tetex-bin.
> I guess to use these fonts by XFree you need some other stuff too,
> like fonts.{alias,dir}. Could you tell us, how to obtain these files?

Just having fonts.{alias,dir} enough for these package to work with X, but
they also should implement Debian fonts pakages standards (to work also
with e.g. GhostScript). (See Debian's howto on fonts and other PostScript
fonts packages).

To generate these files use "mkfontdir".

-- 
Victor Porton (porton@ex-code.com)