Bug#285319: tetex-base: improve broken letters typesetting with KHM package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Kilian Krause <kk@verfaction.de> wrote:

> Hi Hilmar,
>
> No prob. I have only poked it around a bit and it seems to work fine for
> me for what i needed. Yet, i'm no typist and i've no idea if what the
> webpage lists as requirements is factually true. The other very
> sophisticated LaTeX package for broken letters seems to be:
> http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/~muehlich/tex/texindex.html
>
> If you are more experienced in typesetting and layout rules and can
> verify either one of these packages does offer a "best practice", then
> i'd be happy to know the outcome of the expertise.

There was an article about typesetting of "Fraktur" in "Die TeXnische
Komödie" recently, we should really consult it. Ah, yes, it was

http://www.dante.de/dante/DTK//dtk03_2/dtk03_2_bronger_einfaches.html

and a letter to the editor:

http://www.dante.de/dante/DTK//dtk03_3/dtk03_3_hoffmann_axthelm_zu.html

>> Do you know under what license the package is and if not would you be
>> so kind to clarify it, before we forward that bug to upstream?
>
> Sorry, no idea. I guess upstream is the best place to ask for that.

We are currently kind of busy, both with testing the new upstream beta
and with the release process for sarge. Wishlist bugs like this one will
be resolved much faster if the submitters help us - in this case it
would be really great if you could contact the upstream developers and
clarify the license problem. If he/she hasn't thought about it, I'd
recommend "LPPL v1.3 or newer" for a LaTeX package.

As for the DTK article, I'll try to dig out the issue and have a look.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer