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

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> You mean we should select one size of a special font, register it and
> ignore the others?

It depends on the font. Some are available as several {AFM,PFB} sets of
files (sometimes only PFB), each of which is optimized for a particular
size (e.g., /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr9.pfb and
/usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb).

I think it is quite inappropriate to ship these fonts in all sizes
(also, I noticed that with *only* the lmodern fonts, including all of
them under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 slows down terribly the
startup or font-menu open [don't remember which] of gnome-character-map
and presumably many other programs).

For lmodern, I chose to keep all lm*10 and only them because 10 is the
size that has the greatest number of variants (bold, italics, slanted,
small caps, etc.).

But you should realize that Type 1 fonts are scalable, so shipping only
size 10 is very different from shipping a bitmap font in only one
size...

BTW, I explained all this in this message:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2004/debian-tetex-maint-200402/msg00075.html

-- 
Florent